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Fairfax Buys 80% of Indonesian Non-Life Insurer
Batavia specializes in vehicle coverage. "We are thrilled to have PT Batavia Mitratama join the Fairfax group and we look forward to working with the Bintoro family as our new ...
Source: BestWire   Date: April 29, 2014
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Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. Offers to Buy Blackberry for $4.7 Billion
Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. is leading a consortium of investors seeking to buy Blackberry Ltd. Earlier this week, Fairfax signed a letter of intent offering to acquire the ...
Source: BestWire   Date: September 27, 2013
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American Safety Shareholders Approve Merger With Fairfax
American Safety Insurance Holdings, Ltd. said its shareholders have signed off on the company's merger with Fairfax Bermuda Holdings Ltd. and Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. Under ...
Source: BestWire   Date: August 27, 2013
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Catalina Holdings To Acquire American Safety Reinsurance Following American Safety's Merger With Fairfax Financial Holdings
American Safety Insurance Holdings Ltd. and Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd, agreeing to purchase American Safety Reinsurance from Fairfax once Fairfax acquires American Safety. ...
Source: BestWire   Date: August 20, 2013
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Zurich Continues Divestment Push With UK, Ireland Moves
...Stone Insurance (UK) Ltd. and had a banking license in Ireland canceled, two moves described by Zurich as a continuation of its strategy to exit noncore businesses. Zurich and ...
Source: BestWire   Date: December 28, 2012
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Brit CEO: RiverStone Deal 'Last Major Step in Restructuring'
Brit Group has agreed to sell Brit Insurance Ltd. to RiverStone Group. "This is the last major step in our restructuring of the business," said Mark Cloutier, Brit Group chief ...
Source: BestWire   Date: June 18, 2012
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Flood Claims Lead to 2011 Loss for Thai Re
Thai Reinsurance Public Co. The reinsurer reported a net after-tax loss of 1.66 billion baht (US$54.25 million) in 2011, compared with a 58 billion baht profit a year earlier, said ...
Source: BestWire   Date: March 5, 2012
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Liberty International Seeks to Acquire Stake in Malaysia's Mui Continental
Liberty International Holdings Inc. to acquire Novimax's 52.21% stake in Malaysia-based Mui Continental Insurance Bhd. Bank Negara Malaysia, the country's central bank and ...
Source: BestWire   Date: January 19, 2011
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Merger & Acquisition Activity in Insurance Industry Seen as Slow Percolation
That could change soon, he said. "I think it's inevitable that we'll see a large uptick in activity, but it's a question of whether it will be in the coming year or in a three- to ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 8, 2010
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PacificMas in Talks With Fairfax Asia on Sale of Insurance Unit
Malaysian investment holding company PacificMas Bhd. said it is in talks with Fairfax Asia on the proposed disposal of its entire equity interest in its wholly owned general ...
Source: BestWire   Date: August 31, 2010
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First Mercury Financial to Acquire Valiant Insurance Group
First Mercury Financial Corp., the holding company for speciality commercial insurer First Mercury Insurance Co., said it would pay about $55 million to acquire Valiant Insurance ...
Source: BestWire   Date: July 2, 2010
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India's ICICI Lombard General Eyes Crop Insurance as Boon to Market Expansion
Budget 2010-2011 report. The scheme is being implemented on a pilot basis for wheat crops during Rabi season 2009-2010 in the state's Ambala II, Bubain and Tohana sectors, noted ...
Source: BestWire   Date: April 13, 2010
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India's ICICI Lombard General to Strengthen Distribution Network With Bancassurance Partnership
Development Credit Bank Ltd. to increase its distribution network through the bank's 80 branches across 10 states and two union territories. Under the agreement, ICICI Lombard GIC ...
Source: BestWire   Date: January 11, 2010
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Canada's Fairfax Acquires 15% Stake in China's Alltrust Insurance
India through a domestic joint venture, ICICI Lombard General Insurance. Alltrust's chairman, Henry Du, said Fairfax and its businesses, as well as a wealth of insurance and ...
Source: BestWire   Date: September 2, 2009
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ICICI Lombard General Secures Weather Insurance in Indian States
Indian state Rajasthan in 2008. The general insurer also said it has distributed over 3.1 million rupees to 430 farmers in the district of Durg, in central India's Chattisgarh. In ...
Source: BestWire   Date: June 16, 2009
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Daybook for Friday, Feb. 6, 2009: Families USA Call to Discuss Insurance for the Jobless
...Beacon Insurance Group Ltd. is due to release its fourth-quarter earnings report at the start of the trading day, followed by an earnings conference call. Meanwhile, Allied World ...
Source: BestWire   Date: February 5, 2009
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Update: Odyssey Re to Buy Overseas Partners U.S. Unit
Odyssey Re Holdings Corp. said it would acquire a U.S.-domiciled reinsurance business from Overseas Partners Ltd. for $43 million. The stock purchase would give Odyssey Re ...
Source: BestWire   Date: July 7, 2004
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Odyssey Re to Buy Overseas Partners U.S. Unit
Odyssey Re Holdings Corp. said it would acquire a U.S.-domiciled reinsurance business from Overseas Partners Ltd. for $43 million. The stock purchase would give Odyssey Re ...
Source: BestWire   Date: July 6, 2004
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Crum & Forster Names Chairman of Operating Subsidiaries
Crum & Forster Holdings Corp. named Nikolas Antonopoulos chairman of the board of its operating insurance subsidiaries. He succeeds Bruce Esselborn, who retired from Crum & Forster ...
Source: BestWire   Date: June 25, 2004
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Crum & Forster Names Branch Manager for Atlanta
Crum & Forster Insurance Co. has appointed Roy Overstreet as branch manager in Atlanta. Overstreet will be responsible for managing and growing this relatively new branch, which ...
Source: BestWire   Date: August 2, 2001
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