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The Bermuda-based Argus insurance group is being sued in the United States by an elderly client who claims to have lost his $9 million retirement money when it was invested in Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme less than three months before it collapsed.

Notice of Removal, plus copy of complaint, in Antonio G. Calabrese v. Argus Group Holdings Limited and Bermuda Life Insurance Company Limited at the U. S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island.

Argus Group Holdings Limited and Argus International Life Bermuda Limited announced on May 27, 2009 that they "have reached an agreement in principle to settle a class action pending in the United States relating to investment losses caused by Bernard

A class action complaint has been brought in New York against the Bermuda based Argus insurance group on behalf of holders of offshore life insurance policies whose premiums were invested with alleged fraudster Bernard Madoff and may now be lost.Details