Bradley Barros

Notice of Removal, including copy of the complaint, in Reliant Group & Casualty ICC Ltd., formerly known as Bancroft Life & Casualty ICC Ltd. v. CBIZ MHM LLC at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Complaint in Reliant Group & Casualty ICC Ltd., formerly known as Bancroft Life & Casualty ICC Ltd., of Saint Lucia v. CBIZ MHM LLC at the Circuit Court of the 11th Judicial Court, in and for Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Second Amended Complaint in Leo Ford v. KPMG LLP, KPMG BVI Limited, James Drury, Russell Crumpler, Belmont Insurance Management, Casey McDonald, Kris Beighton, Andrea Douglas, Greenberg Traurig, PA, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Jerome Hesch, GFAN, ABG, Bancroft Property & Casualty, Ltd., a.k.a. Bancroft Life & Casualty, Ltd., and Bancroft Life & Casualty ICC, Ltd.; Bradley Barros, and Philip Sigel at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

First Amended Complaint in Leo Ford v. KPMG LLP, KPMG BVI Limited, KPMG Cayman, James Drury, Russell Crumpler, Belmont Insurance Management, Casey McDonald, Kris Beighton, Andrea Douglas, Greenberg Traurig, PA., Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Jerome Hesch, GFAN, ABG, Bancroft Property & Casualty, Ltd. (a.k.a. Bancroft Life & Casualty, Ltd. and Bancroft Life & Casualty ICC, Ltd.), Bradley Barros, and Philip Sigel at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Accountants in the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands have been accused of conspiring with Miami-based law firm Greenberg Traurig and others to swindle one group of clients in favor of another in a scheme involving two offshore insurers - BVI-based Boston Life and Annuity and Bancroft Life & Casualty, of St. Lucia.

Complaint in Leo Ford and Boston Life and Annuity Company Limited v. KPMG LLP, Belmont Insurance Management Ltd., Kris Beighton, Casey McDonald, Andrea Douglas, Bancroft Property & Casualty, Ltd., a.k.a. Bancroft Life & Casualty Ltd. and Bancroft Life & Casualty ICC, Ltd.; Greenberg Traurig, P.A., Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Jerome Hesch, Bradley Barros, Philip Sigel, Global Financial Advisors Network, LLC, and Association Benefits Group, Inc. at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Complaint in Bancroft Life & Casualty ICC, Ltd. v. National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, P.A. at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

A United States federal judge has ruled against St. Lucia-licensed insurer Bancroft Life & Casualty ICC, Ltd. in a lawsuit against one of its insureds, U. S. taxpayer Cesar Scolari, determining they both participated in "a scheme to defraud the United States from tax revenues".

Findings of Fact in Bancroft Life & Casualty ICC, Ltd. v. Cesar Scolari at the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.

Motion to Intervene for a Limited Purpose and Motion to Lift Seal by TMC Financial, LLC and Family Wealth Advisors, LLC in Bancroft Life & Casualty, ICC Ltd. v. Intercontinental Management Ltd., Intercontinental Captive Management Company, Ltd., The Roberts and Patton Law Firm, John R. Patton, George Thomas Roberts, Nigel Bailey, Cunningham Hughan & Company, Inc., Thomas Hughan, CPA, Dernar & Associates, LLC, and David K. Dernar, CPA at the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Defendant's Motion to Take One Additional Day of Deposition of the Deposition of witness Matthew G. Brown in Bancroft Life & Casualty ICC, Ltd. v. Cesar Scolari at the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.

Second Amended Complaint in Bancroft Life & Casualty ICC, Ltd. v. Intercontinental Management, Ltd., Intercontinental Captive Management Company, Ltd., The Roberts and Patton Law Firm, John R. Patton, George Thomas Roberts, Nigel Bailey, Cunningham Hughan & Company, Inc., Thomas Hughan, CPA, Dernar & Associates, LLC, and David K. Dernar, CPA at the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Order Denying Plaintiff's Motion to Dismiss Amended Counterclaims in Bancroft Life & Casualty ICC, Ltd. v. Cesar Scolari at the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.

Letter to OffshoreAlert from Sanford Bohrer, an attorney with Holland & Knight, on behalf of Bancroft Life & Casualty - November 3, 2011

Texas-based drilling rig manufacturer HongHua America, LLC has become the latest insured to sue troubled offshore insurer Bancroft Life & Casualty, whose policies appear to have been designed to help U. S. companies avoid or defer taxes.

Complaint in HongHua America, LLC, formerly New Continental Equipment Co., Ltd., v. Bancroft Life & Casualty, ICC Ltd., Bradley Barros, CBIZ MHM, LLC, Association Benefits Group, Inc., and Loren R. Cook & Associates, Ltd., LLP at District Court, Fort Bend County, Texas.

Counterclaims by TMC Financial LLC against Bancroft Life & Casualty ICC Ltd. and Third-Party Claims by TMC Financial LLC against Intercontinental Management Ltd., doing business as Intercontinental Captive Management Ltd.; CBIZ MHM LLC, Association Benefits Group Inc., and Bradley Barros at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

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.

Answer and Counterclaims of FFD Resources III, LLC in the case of 'Bancroft Life & Casualty ICC, Ltd. vs. FFD Resources III, LLC and FFD Ventures, LP' at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

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.  

First Amended Petition, Application for Temporary Restraining Order, Application for an Injunction and Request for Expedited Discovery in an action brought by Robert Kwok & Associates Ltd., LLP against Bancroft Life & Casualty, ICC, Loren R. Cook & Associates Ltd., LLP, Association Benefits Group, Inc., CBIZ MHM, LLC, and Bradley Barros at the District Court of Harris County, Texas.

Amended Complaint filed by Bancroft Life & Casualty ICC, Ltd.against Intercontinental Management Ltd., Intercontinental Captive Management Company, Ltd., The Roberts and Patton Law Firm, John R. Patton, George Thomas Roberts, Nigel Bailey, Cunningham Hughan & Company, Inc., Thomas Hughan, Dernar & Associates, LLC, and David Dernar at the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Troubled offshore insurer Bancroft Life & Casualty ICC Ltd. has filed five separate civil complaints against insureds in the United States over the last three

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.

A Seattle resident who borrowed $5.3 million of his own money from an offshore insurer in an elaborate tax avoidance scheme only to be sued by the insurer for defaulting on loan repayments has brought his own action against the

First Amended Complaint by Sea Czar, Inc., controlled by Cesar Scolari, against St. Lucia-licensed insurer Bancroft Life & Casualty ICC, Ltd.

Cesar Scolari's Answer and Counterclaims in the case of Bancroft Life & casualty ICC Ltd. vs. Cesar Scolari regarding a tax shelter scheme.

Complaint filed by Sea Czar, Inc., controlled by Cesar Scolari, against Bancroft Life & Casualty ICC Ltd., an offshore insurer licensed in St. Lucia.

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.

Florida based offshore tax specialist Denis Kleinfeld has filed a libel complaint against two attorneys and two insurance agents whom he accuses of lying so that clients of British Virgin Islands registered Boston Life and Annuity Company Ltd. would sue