Diane Koken

Two former operating subsidiaries of Bermuda-based Mutual Risk Management Ltd. had a combined net deficit of $334.4 million as of December 31, 2005, according to their liquidator.Legion Insurance Company and Villanova Insurance Company had deficits of $225.4 million and $109 million, respectively, stated their Statutory Liquidator, Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Diane Koken, in her report for the fourth quarter of 2005.

July was a significant month for Mutual Risk Management, with two of its subsidiaries going into liquidation in the United States and a scheme of arrangement being approved for the company itself.The bad news for the firm came when liquidation orders were issued for Legion Insurance and Villanova Insurance by the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania on July 28.

A Pennsylvania judge has criticized state insurance regulators in the United States and reinsurers for failing to save two property and casualty subsidiaries of Bermuda-based Mutual Risk Management. On June 26, Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt granted petitions from Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Diane Koken to liquidate Legion Insurance Co. and Villanova Insurance Co.

Mutual Risk Management subsidiaries Legion Insurance Co. and Villanova Insurance Co. have gone into "voluntary rehabilitation" following court action by Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Diane Koken. The rehabilitation orders, which were granted by the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania on March 28, 2002, become effective April 1, 2002.

Mutual Risk Management subsidiaries Legion Insurance Co. and Villanova Insurance Co. have gone into “voluntary rehabilitation” following court action by Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Diane Koken. The rehabilitation order, which was granted by the court on March 28, 2002, becomes effective April 1, 2002.

Companies based in Barbados and Anguilla and a Barbados attorney are at the center of an investigation in the U.S. into an alleged $323 million insurance fraud. The investigation was launched after the liquidation on January 21, 1998 of Pennsylvania-based medical malpractice insurer PIC Insurance Group Inc., formerly known as Physicians Insurance Group.