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    Hundreds of millions of dollars at stake in claims from ‘quack’ doctor’s work

    Four Bermuda insurers have been named as defendants in a lawsuit brought on behalf of 70 patients of an osteopathic surgeon who has been accused of killing or maiming dozens of patients in the United States.The difference between success and failure may amount to hundreds of millions of dollars for XL Insurance Company Ltd., ACE Insurance Company Ltd., Starr Excess Liability Insurance International Ltd., Allied World Assurance Company Ltd. and two non-Bermuda co-defendants: Teays Valley Health Services, LLC, d.b.a. Putnam General Hospital, of West Virginia, and Health Care Indemnity, Inc., a Colorado-based insurer.