Roberts and Patton Law Firm

Offshore insurer Bancroft Life & Casualty and its principals, Miami tax attorney Phil Sigel and Delaware insurance advisor Brad Barros, have been accused of perpetrating a massive tax shelter fraud against its customers, the IRS and regulators in St. Lucia.

Counterclaim by Intercontinental Management, Ltd. d/b/a Intercontinental Captive Management Company, Ltd., Intercontinental Management Ltd., The Roberts and Patton Law Firm, John R. Patton, George Thomas Roberts, and Nigel Bailey against Phil Sigel, Brad Barros, Loren Cook, Andrew Watson, Gail Sigel, Nicholas John, The Bancroft Trust, Association Benefits Group Inc., Global Financial Advisors Network LLC, and Stuart Anolik, at the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.  

Motion to Amend Pleadings, Add New Parties and Joinder of Related Litigation in the case of 'Bancroft Life & Casualty ICC, Ltd. vs. Intercontinental Management, Ltd., Intercontinental Captive Management Company, Ltd., Thomas Hughan, CPA, Cunningham Hughan & Company, Inc., Nigel Bailey, George Thomas Roberts, John Patton, and Roberts and Patton Law Firm' at the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

An offshore insurer licensed in St. Lucia and administered from the United States claims that "staggering financial losses" suffered as a result of alleged fraud and other misdeeds by its former management company, counsel and accountants have threatened the viability of the company. Bancroft Life & Casualty ICC Ltd., which is controlled by Philip Sigel and Bradley Barros, who live in Miami and Delaware, respectively, filed a complaint at the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on May 21, 2010 against Intercontinental Management Ltd., d.b.a. Intercontinental Captive Management Company Ltd. ("ICMC"), which is domiciled in the U. S. Virgin Islands and administered in Greensburg, Pennsylvania; a second company called Intercontinental Management Company Ltd. ("Intercontinental") which is domiciled in Pennsylvania and apparently operated from the same address in Greensburg, PA; The Roberts and Patton Law Firm, based in Ligonier, Pennsylvania; John R. Patton, described as "a general partner in Roberts & Patton", although he "is not licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania", and "an owner and officer of" ICMC and Intercontinental; George Thomas Roberts, described as "a general partner in Roberts & Patton" and "an owner and principal of ICMC, Intercontinental and a reinsurance company called the Captive Line Slip which is incorporated in the United States Virgin Islands"; Nigel Bailey, described as a resident of the U. S. Virgin Islands who is "an owner and principal of ICMC, Intercontinental and the Captive Line Slip" and who was "Bancroft's 'local manager' for St. Lucia"; Cunningham Hughan & Company, Inc., described as an accounting firm based in Carnegie, Pennsylvania; and Thomas Hughan, CPA.