16 April 2013Insurance

Still true to its roots

Bermuda’s success as an insurance and reinsurance hub has always revolved around its ability to innovate. Originally the domicile of choice for captives formed by US companies during the 1960s and 1970s, the first fully fledged insurers were born there in the early 1980s in response to a US commercial lines liability crisis.

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