Martin Hoffman discusses his sometimes controversial past

American businessman Martin Hoffman has attracted his fair share of publicity in his long career in the insurance industry, which began in the 1960s and has covered markets in the United States, the UK, Bermuda and around the world. Over the next few editions, Inside Bermuda will serialize a comprehensive interview that we conducted with Hoffman in which he addresses several controversial incidents that he has been linked with, including the collapse of US firms Kenilworth Insurance and Cadillac Insurance and the operations of Barbados-based Towers International Re/Knightsbridge International Re. Since December of 1994, Hoffman has been the President of New York-based Eton Management Corporation, which is engaged in a broad range of insurance and reinsurance activities, including the management of an International Marine and Property Program. Prior to founding Eton Management, he ran MIH Consultants, which provided consulting, administrative, software development and processing for small and medium-sized insurance companies and agents. Early in his career, Hoffman was hired to head the Reinsurance Audit Staff at Norman Reitman & Company, an international insurance accounting firm specializing in reinsurance and CIGNA British Companies and Bermuda Reinsurers. After he left Norman Reitman & Company, Hoffman was retained by a London brokerage firm where he was responsible for all accounting activities related to the brokerage firm’s business underwritten by production sources in the United States on behalf of Lloyd’s of London.