Arch Capital Group Ltd.

Application by Andrew Rippert to take discovery from Constantine Iordanou for use in an arbitration in Bermuda against his former employer, Arch Capital Group Ltd., for alleged "wrongful termination", filed at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Application by Andrew Rippert to take discovery from Laurie Goodman for use in an arbitration in Bermuda against his former employer, Arch Capital Group Ltd., for alleged "wrongful termination", filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Bermuda-based Arch Capital Group Ltd. and two of its US-domiciled operating subsidiaries are being sued for allegedly refusing to pay claims arising out of litigation filed on behalf of 11 dead and nearly 200 injured victims of a multiple train crash in California two years ago. Plaintiff the Southern California Regional Rail Authority, d.b.a. Metrolink, is seeking compensatory damages in excess of $1.5 million, plus punitive damages, in a civil complaint that was filed at the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, on June 9, 2008 and transferred to the U. S. District Court for the Central District of California on July 14.

Two subsidiaries of Bermuda-based Arch Capital Group Ltd. are being sued in the United States in a dispute over construction performance bonds. Arch Insurance Co. and Arch Reinsurance Co. were named as the only defendants in a civil complaint that was filed at the 250th Judicial District Court of Travis County, Texas on October 9, 2007 and later transferred by the Arch companies to the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Texas on November 8, 2007.

Two subsidiaries of Bermuda-based insurers have been named as “co-conspirators” of reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter in an alleged billion-dollar, price-fixing scheme that Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal claims “illegally inflated insurance costs for insurance companies and consumers nationwide”.Details are contained in a civil complaint filed by the State of Connecticut at the Superior Court for the Judicial District of Hartford, Connecticut on October 4, 2007.

Two U. S. subsidiaries of Bermuda-based Arch Capital Group Ltd. are being sued for up to $34 million in compensatory damages for allegedly failing to honor a construction bond. Details are contained in a civil complaint that was filed by Whitlock Mills LP, a Maryland limited partnership based in Columbia, Maryland, at the U. S. District Court for the District of New Jersey on December 29, 2006.