Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd.’s Prem Watsa, who said this week that issuing stock was one of his last options for financing the purchase of Brit plc, opted days later to sell shares and guard his company’s credit rating. Watsa, Fairfax’s …
Fairfax Financial Holdings, the Canadian property and casualty insurer run by contrarian investor Prem Watsa, said it would buy Brit plc for some $1.88 billion to become one of the top five underwriters on the Lloyd’s of London market. Watsa, …
Brit PLC, a global specialty insurer and reinsurer, has developed an insurance service to protect companies operating critical infrastructure and industrial machinery from terrorist and other malicious attacks, such as sabotage, espionage and theft. Critical infrastructure, operated through complex software …
Brit Plc, a Lloyd’s of London insurer, posted a 4.5 percent increase in premiums and said it would pay its first dividend following its initial public offering in March. The shares gained. Premiums before reinsurance expenses rose to £701.2 million …
