International Advisory Services

A Bermuda-licensed insurer that is insolvent by an estimated $7 million forged a fake accounting document in the name of Deloitte & Touche in the Cayman Islands to try to convince regulators it was solvent, according to its provisional liquidators.The alleged ploy did not work, however, and Hatteras Reinsurance Limited was petitioned into provisional liquidation “in the public interest” by the Bermuda Monetary Authority at Bermuda Supreme Court on June 7, 2006.

The IRS and regulators in Florida are investigating a company purportedly based in St. Kitts & Nevis and its affiliates, including a credit union. Details of the IRS investigation are contained in a petition to petition to enforce summonses that was filed at the U. S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida on April 19, 2004.

One new civil complaint was filed against Mutual Risk Management in May - a month when the group announced a restructuring through a Scheme of Arrangement in an attempt to stave off liquidation.The action was brought by Stephen Friedberg against

International Advisory Services, Bermuda's largest independent insurance management company, says it is working on putting together a scheme of arrangement for Bristol Reinsurance Ltd, the property and marine commercial reinsurer it has managed since October 1991.