Hans Hvide

A Florida court has granted a motion for a default judgment against two Cayman companies which allegedly defrauded a United States citizen of $550,000.The order was entered against Cayman Reinsurance Group and CRG Advisors Ltd. on March 26, 2003 after their registered agent, Cayman-based law firm Walkers, did not respond to a complaint filed in 2002. The case against co-defendants Wentworth Capital Ltd., of Switzerland; and Frank C. Blunt Jr., Ann Wentworth Blunt and Gavin C. Blunt, all of Florida, is ongoing.

An ex-business partner of Bermuda-resident John Grant Marshall has, like Marshall himself in the 1990s, been implicated in an offshore reinsurance fraud. Frank C. Blunt Jr. has been named as a defendant in a civil lawsuit filed in Miami on January 18, 2002 in which the plaintiffs claim to have been defrauded of $550,000.

A civil complaint has been filed in the United States by plaintiffs claiming to have been defrauded by a Cayman-registered group whose advisors allegedly included former British MP Geoffrey Dodsworth. The action was filed at the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida on January 18, 2002 by Anne W. Hvide and Raymond B. Vickers, who are Trustees for the Hans J. Hvide Trust.