Universal Re sued in Georgia

Bermuda-based Universal Reinsurance Company Ltd. has been named as a defendant in a civil lawsuit filed in the United States.The action was filed by Holden & Company Inc., a self-insurance administrator based in Savannah, at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia on December 19, 2005.Defendants are Universal Re, Employers OneSource Inc., incorporated in Mississippi; Leslie Smith, President of Employers OneSource (EOS); Direct General Inc., William C. Adair Jr., Guy Carpenter & Company and Dean S. Minnie, all of whose domiciles are not identified in the complaint.