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Charles Collis accused of altering Bermuda Fire & Marine minutes

February 28, 1997
One of Bermuda's most influential businessmen, lawyer Charles Collis, has been accused of doctoring the minutes of a crucial committee meeting to hide evidence that directors of Bermuda Fire & Marine Insurance knew the firm was in financial trouble before they stripped it of $40 million in assets.

Bermuda Fire & Marine grossly under-estimated run-off costs

November 12, 1995
The management of Bermuda Fire & Marine Insurance may have underestimated the costs of running off the failed insurer's international business by as much as $23 million, according to liquidator Ernst & Young. When breaking up the company in 1991 in order to protect its profitable domestic business from the debts of its international arm, only $1.7 million was left behind to pay Bermuda Fire's run off costs.

Mello Hollis resigns from Bermuda Fire legal case

October 12, 1995
Law firm Mello Hollis Jones & Martin resigned from the investigation into Bermuda Fire & Marine Insurance because of "professional disagreements" with a British law firm also involved in the case, we have been told.Its decision to resign - only a few weeks after MHJ&M partner Saul Froomkin had interviewed Bermuda's Fire's top directors - had nothing to do with concerns about the high profile nature of a case that affects some of the most powerful members of the community, according to sources.

BF&M policyholders’ ‘not at risk’

October 12, 1995
Long-term policyholders with BF&M Ltd. are not at financial risk because of a multi-million dollar lawsuit brought against the firm by the liquidators of its former parent, BF&M's lawyers have claimed. Although BF&M Life Insurance Company Ltd. is named as a co-defendant in the lawsuit, long-term policyholders are protected under Bermuda law, said lawyer Timothy Marshall, of Marshall & Company.

Policyholders stick with BF&M despite lawsuit

October 11, 1995
BF&M's policyholders appear to have decided to stick it out with their company in the wake of a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the firm.BF&M's main local rivals, Colonial Insurance and Argus Insurance, said they have seen little or no new business as a result of BF&M's legal problems.Last week, the liquidators of Bermuda Fire & Marine brought a lawsuit in an attempt to gain control of BF&M's assets to pay overseas creditors, who are estimated to be owed.in excess of $100 million.

BF&M lawsuit will focus on 1991 sale of assets

October 6, 1995
The focus of the court action filed yesterday against BF&M Ltd. and other co-defendants will be the complex sale of Bermuda Fire & Marine's profitable domestic business in 1991. Bermuda Supreme court must decide whether the sale was done fairly and in the best interests of the firm's policyholders and shareholders, as Bermuda Fire's directors claim, or whether it was a way of avoiding expected claims by U.S. policyholders, as creditors claim.

Bermuda Fire & Marine lawsuit nears for top businessmen

May 25, 1995
A decision on whether to sue some of Bermuda's most influential local businessmen for millions of dollars, stemming from the collapse of Bermuda Fire & Marine Insurance, is expected to be made over the next couple of months. At stake is over $100 million owed to creditors of Bermuda Fire & Marine Insurance and the credibility of Bermuda's regulatory and legal system in relation to protecting the rights of foreigners doing business with Bermuda-based insurers and reinsurers.

Possible insider trading in BF&M shares

December 22, 1994
BF&M Ltd announced a ten per cent stock dividend to shareholders yesterday - only days after some of the largest volumes of trading in its shares for several months. A decision to reward long-suffering shareholders of BF&M Ltd, who have seen their capital investment drop from $10.50 per share in June, 1993, to $6.75 currently, was taken by BF&M's board of directors on December 20.

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

November 3, 1994
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.

Bermuda attacked by US politicians over Bermuda Fire ‘fraud’

November 3, 1994
A powerful political body in the US has launched a blistering attack on Bermuda over its handling of the collapse of Bermuda Fire & Marine Insurance.Over $40 million in assets that were dividended out to the insurer's shareholders in 1991 has been described as "a prime example of outrageous irresponsibility by an offshore insurance company".The matter was "exacerbated by a cavalier disregard for the consequences on people living elsewhere", said a report released this week entitled ‘Wishful Thinking: A World view of Insurance Solvency Regulation.'

BF&M liquidators bring first lawsuit

May 19, 1994
The joint provisional liquidators of Bermuda Fire & Marine Insurance have brought their first legal action in Bermuda since they were appointed six months ago, filing an application to be appointed receivers of Bermuda London Underwriting Agency Ltd.

Bermuda Fire & Marine liquidators receive court extension

February 3, 1994
Ernst & Young, the provisional liquidators of Bermuda Fire & Marine Insurance, have been granted an extra three months by Bermuda Supreme Court to compile information about the company's financial health and are now expected to produce their findings on March 10.

Bermuda Fire chairman criticizes DTI

November 9, 1993
Bermuda Fire and Marine Insurance chairman Charles Collis says responsibility for regulatory compliance by the company's UK subsidiary was the job of H S Weavers.
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