Bermuda Fire directors stay silent despite allegations of fraud at Bermuda Fire & Marine Insurance

Despite the strong criticisms of the collapse of Bermuda Fire & Marine Insurance, the company’s vice-chairman, lawyer and former UBP MP William Cox, yesterday maintained his year-long public silence on the affair.”I have no comment,” said Mr Cox, who is the senior partner in law firm Cox & Wilkinson.Bermuda Fire’s chairman, former government Senate leader Charles Collis, the senior partner in law firm Conyers, Dill & Pearman, was not available for comment.Other directors who voted to approve the controversial split-up of the company in 1991 have steadfastly refused to comment publicly on their actions since Bermuda Fire went into provisional liquidation in November, 1993.