Economic Association of Health Professionals

In a blow to the IRS, a United States court has dismissed a receiver and lifted an asset freeze order against a Barbados-licensed insurer which is being investigated for alleged tax evasion.The ruling at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of California on December 3 unfroze more than $500 million of assets belonging to Doctors Benefit Insurance Company Ltd.

A former insurance regulator in the British Virgin Islands has been accused of conspiring with others to defraud the United States Government of more than $500 million since at least 1998.Nigel J. Bailey, a British national living in the BVI,