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Scottish Re settles shareholders’ class action for $37.5 m

Scottish Re Group Ltd., several current and former officers and directors, its auditor, and the underwriters of two public offerings of the reinsurer’s shares in 2005 have agreed to pay $37.5 million in cash to settle a class action lawsuit.An order preliminarily approving the proposed settlement was issued by Shira A. Scheindlin at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on September 8, 2008.