Houston Casualty Company

Application by Max Bermuda Ltd., Markel Bermuda Limited, Lloyd's Underwriters, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Arch Insurance Company, ACE Capital V Limited, Endurance Specialty Insurance Ltd., Antares Underwriting Limited, AIG Commercial Insurance Company of Canada, Arch Insurance Canada Ltd., Chartis Excess Limited, XL Insurance Company PLC, Great Lakes Reinsurance (UK) PLC, Axis Specialty Insurance Company, Houston Casualty Company, Chubb Insurance Company of Canada, ACE Capital IV Limited, Catlin Syndicate Limited, Chaucer Corporate Capital (No. 3) Limited, Aspen Insurance UK Limited, Lexington Insurance Company, AIG Insurance Company of Canada, Allied World Assurance Company Ltd., Brit UW Limited, Novae Corporate Underwriting Limited and/or Novae Syndicates Limited, Axis Specialty Limited, AIG Excess Liability Insurance International Limited, Chaucer Corporate Capital (No. 2) Limited, and ACE Capital Limited. to take discovery from TD Bank for use in in legal proceedings in Canada regarding Scott Rothstein and the now-defunct law firm of Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler, filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Judgment Setting Aside Order in Embassy Investments Limited v. Houston Casualty Company at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Application for the Admission of Manuel Barca QC to the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Ex Parte Originating Motion in Houston Casualty Company v. Embassy Investments Limited at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Ex Parte Originating Summons in an action brought by Houston Casualty Company against Embassy Investments Limited at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

United States-based retail giant Sears is suing insurers in Bermuda and elsewhere for allegedly frustrating the processing and payment of “enormous” claims stemming from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Sears Holdings Corporation, a Delaware corporation based in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, filed a civil complaint at the Circuit Court of Harrison County, Mississippi Second Judicial Court on August 25, 2006, with the case being transferred to the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on December 18, 2006.

Eight Bermuda based companies are among the defendants in a recently civil lawsuit filed recently by clients of broker Marsh & McLennan who claim they were damaged in a bid rigging scam. One of the plaintiffs is also incorporated in Bermuda.