Excess Reinsurance Company

Two subsidiaries of Bermuda-based insurers have been named as “co-conspirators” of reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter in an alleged billion-dollar, price-fixing scheme that Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal claims “illegally inflated insurance costs for insurance companies and consumers nationwide”.Details are contained in a civil complaint filed by the State of Connecticut at the Superior Court for the Judicial District of Hartford, Connecticut on October 4, 2007.