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  • 17Jul

    GEORGE TOWN, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, July 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
    – United America Indemnity, Ltd. (Nasdaq: INDM) (UAI) today announced the
    appointment of Scott Reynolds as President of United National Group, one of
    UAI’s three U.S. divisions. The appointment is effective July 28, 2008. Mr.
    Reynolds will report directly to Larry A. Frakes, President and Chief
    Executive Officer of UAI and its wholly owned subsidiary, United America
    Indemnity Group, Inc.

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    “Scott’s extensive experience within the wholesale distribution community
    and specifically in the program arena coupled with his actuarial acumen will
    be a tremendous asset as we continue to enhance our products and expand our
    program administrator relationships within the United National Group,” said
    Mr. Frakes. “With the addition of Scott to UAI’s management team, we now have
    dedicated and talented Presidents for each of our operating divisions. While
    UAI’s United States divisions are separate and distinct, in total their
    operations offer wholesale producers a broad array of excess & surplus lines
    and specialty admitted products that can be underwritten on either a binding
    authority, brokerage or program basis.”

    “I am privileged that Mr. Frakes and the UAI Board of Directors has
    selected me as President of United National Group and look forward to further
    developing its program business,” said Mr. Reynolds. “I am excited by the
    opportunity to lead this division and to work closely with UAI’s other
    business leaders, specifically Scott McDowell, President of Penn-America
    Group, and David Myers, President of Diamond State Group. With the three
    divisions working together to profitably develop business, UAI is well
    positioned within the dynamic insurance industry to meet the changing needs of
    the wholesale marketplace and to increase value to the UAI shareholders.”

    Mr. Reynolds has over 20 years of industry experience and most recently
    served as President of the Specialty Underwriting Division of AmWINS Group,
    Inc., where he oversaw AmWINS’ program business. From 2002 through 2006, Mr.
    Reynolds served as Chief Actuary of AmWINS. Prior to his time at AmWINS, Mr.
    Reynolds was a Manager at Royal & Sun Alliance responsible for all commercial
    lines pricing, filings and statistical reporting. Mr. Reynolds began his
    career in 1987 at Royal & Sun Alliance within its actuarial department and
    later served as Division Actuary of Liberty Mutual’s Business Markets
    Division. Mr. Reynolds received his Bachelor’s of Science in Statistics from
    Appalachian State University and is an Associate of the Casualty Actuarial
    Society.

    UAI also announced today that the principal offices of the United National
    Group will be located in Charlotte, North Carolina where Scott Reynolds, its
    new President, will also be based. “With the addition of this new location,
    UAI’s U.S. businesses now have facilitates in six states (North Carolina,
    Pennsylvania, California, Arizona, Michigan and Illinois),” said Mr. Frakes.
    “The geographic dispersion of our physical locations allows us to better
    distribute our products and services to all 50 states and further enhances our
    ability to attract talented insurance professionals to join our dynamic
    organization.”

    About United America Indemnity, Ltd.

    United America Indemnity, Ltd. (Nasdaq: INDM), through its several direct
    and indirect wholly owned subsidiary insurance and reinsurance companies, is a
    national and international provider of excess and surplus lines and specialty
    property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, both on an admitted and
    nonadmitted basis. The Company’s four principal divisions include:

    — Penn-America Group, which distributes its property and casualty
    products to small commercial businesses through a select network of general
    agents with specific binding authority.

    — United National Group, which distributes its program and professional
    lines products through program administrators with specific binding authority.

    — Diamond State Group, which distributes its property, casualty and
    professional lines products through wholesale brokers.

    — Wind River Reinsurance Company, Ltd., a Bermuda based treaty and
    facultative reinsurer of excess and surplus lines and specialty property and
    casualty insurance.

    For more information, visit the United America Indemnity, Ltd. Website at
    www.uai.ky.

    Forward-Looking Information

    This release contains forward-looking information about United America
    Indemnity, Ltd. and the operations of United America Indemnity, Ltd. that is
    intended to be covered by the safe harbor for forward-looking statements
    provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-
    looking statements are statements that are not historical facts. These
    statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as
    “believe,” “expect,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “project,” “plan,” “seek,”
    “intend,” or “anticipate” or the negative thereof or comparable terminology,
    and include discussions of strategy, financial projections and estimates and
    their underlying assumptions, statements regarding plans, objectives,
    expectations or consequences of the transactions, and statements about the
    future performance, operations, products and services of the companies.

    The business and operations of United America Indemnity, Ltd. is and will
    be subject to a variety of risks, uncertainties and other factors.
    Consequently, actual results and experience may materially differ from those
    contained in any forward-looking statements. Such risks, uncertainties and
    other factors that could cause actual results and experience to differ from
    those projected include, but are not limited to, the following: (1) the
    ineffectiveness of United America Indemnity, Ltd.’s business strategy due to
    changes in current or future market conditions; (2) the effects of
    competitors’ pricing policies, and of changes in laws and regulations on
    competition, including industry consolidation and development of competing
    financial products; (3) greater frequency or severity of claims and loss
    activity than United America Indemnity, Ltd.’s underwriting, reserving or
    investment practices have anticipated; (4) decreased level of demand for
    United America Indemnity, Ltd.’s insurance products or increased competition
    due to an increase in capacity of property and casualty insurers; (5) risks
    inherent in establishing loss and loss adjustment expense reserves; (6)
    uncertainties relating to the financial ratings of United America Indemnity,
    Ltd.’s insurance subsidiaries; (7) uncertainties arising from the cyclical
    nature of United America Indemnity, Ltd.’s business; (8) changes in United
    America Indemnity, Ltd.’s relationships with, and the capacity of, its general
    agents; (9) the risk that United America Indemnity, Ltd.’s reinsurers may not
    be able to fulfill obligations; (10) investment performance and credit risk;
    and (11) uncertainties relating to governmental and regulatory policies. The
    foregoing review of important factors should be read in conjunction with the
    other cautionary statements that are included in United America Indemnity,
    Ltd.’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006,
    as well as in the materials filed and to be filed with the U.S. Securities and
    Exchange Commission (SEC). United America Indemnity, Ltd. does not make any
    commitment to revise or update any forward-looking statements in order to
    reflect events or circumstances occurring or existing after the date any
    forward-looking statement is made.

    SOURCE United America Indemnity, Ltd.

  • 24Jun

    GEORGE TOWN, Grand Cayman, June 24 /PRNewswire/ — Walkers, the global
    offshore law firm of choice for companies, financial organizations, and
    international law firms has looked at key factors in the global private equity
    market over the last 18 months and has identified several changes that could
    shape the future of the industry including the role of sovereign wealth funds
    and the continuing influence of emerging markets.

    According to Walkers, the rising costs of leverage and in certain cases,
    the absence of availability of debt finance has meant that the old private
    equity model of firms using leverage to enhance returns is increasingly
    scarce. Increased competition from sovereign wealth funds (SWF), which are at
    an all time high in terms of available capital, is pushing private equity to
    revise its traditional model. As SWFs continue to diversify their investment
    strategies by investing in emerging markets such as China and India and
    leveraging the fall in asset values, partly caused by the weak U.S. dollar,
    private equity needs to keep up.

    “Private equity is entering a phase of ‘evolve or perish’ in terms of
    models and strategies,” said Ian Ashman, head of Walkers Private Equity Group.
    “As the global economy changes, private equity needs to adapt to keep
    attracting the capital that has traditionally gone to the sector.”

    Part of the evolution involves embracing emerging markets including
    Brazil, Russia, India, China, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Many of the
    top 50 private equity houses, including The Carlyle Group and Cereberus, have
    opened, or in the process of opening offices in emerging markets.

    “There are a number of reasons to have a presence in these markets. The
    obvious reason is to facilitate raising capital, but having an on-site
    presence also helps to source deals in the emerging markets,” said Richard
    Addlestone, a partner in Walkers Private Equity Group. “We are seeing
    high-growth rates of somewhere between 8-10% forecast in countries such as
    China, India, the Middle East compared to U.S. forecasts of 1-2% at best.
    Investing in emerging markets brings opportunities for high returns, reduces
    the impact of the credit crunch, and offers more opportunities to obtain debt
    finance without incurring prohibitively high costs.”

    The changes in the private equity market can also be noted by significant
    acquisitions. For example, The Carlyle Group recently closed a US$1.4 billion
    fund to buy distressed debt. Experts see this as a move to take advantage of
    bargain basement prices caused by the credit crunch, as banks attempt to
    dispose of their debt to restore balance sheets. This is one sector which has
    been recently attracting private equity investment.

    “It is rumored that like Carlyle, TPG, Apollo, Blackstone, and others are
    working on deals for distressed debt, most notably working with Citigroup to
    snap up $12 billion-worth of Citi’s leveraged loans,” continued Mr.
    Addlestone. “These transactions show two things. First, they show the new
    world in which private equity is operating and what new opportunities are
    currently out there. Second, they show that despite the credit crunch, private
    equity still has significant capital to work with. Carlyle also recently
    closed the largest equity investment ever made in France by a single private
    equity firm, its 1.1 bn euro equity investment in telecommunications companies
    Numericable and Completel.”

    Walkers’ Private Equity Group offers broad and deep experience in all
    aspects of offshore private equity transactions, working with the majority of
    the U.S. leveraged buy-out firms and venture capital firms advising on fund
    formation, formation of alternative investment vehicles and advising on all
    aspects of international leveraged buy-outs and equity financing where the
    structure involves offshore jurisdictional advice.

    About The Walkers Group

    From offices in the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, Dubai,
    Hong Kong, Jersey, London, and Tokyo, the Walkers group provides legal and
    management services to leading FORTUNE 100 and FTSE 100 global corporations
    and financial institutions, private equity houses, capital markets
    participants, investment fund managers, and growth- and middle-market
    companies. The Walkers group is comprised of leading offshore law firm,
    Walkers; fund services provider, Walkers Fund Services Limited; and SPV and
    corporate services providers, Walkers SPV Limited, Walkers (Jersey) Limited,
    and Walkers (BVI) Limited.

    In 2006, Walkers was named as the Who’s Who Legal Law Firm of the Year:
    Cayman Islands, the PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook Leading Cayman Islands Law
    Firm, The Lawyer’s Offshore Law Firm of the Year, and was one of two firms
    honored as “Offshore Legal Team of the Year” by the Society of Trust and
    Estate Practitioners (STEP).

    For more information on the Walkers group, visit us on the Web at
    http://www.walkersglobal.com or contact us by e-mail at
    info@walkersglobal.com. To contact Walkers by phone, call our Cayman Islands
    office at +345-949-0100.

    SOURCE Walkers

  • 06Jun

    GEORGE TOWN, Grand Cayman, June 6 /PRNewswire/ — Walkers, the global
    offshore law firm of choice for investment banks, international law firms,
    collateral managers, and other financial institutions, applauds the work done
    by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) in releasing its first report
    using data gathered by its new electronic reporting system. The Investment
    Statistics Digest, released earlier this week, provides an in-depth
    statistical review of Cayman Islands regulated funds for 2006 with aggregate
    statistics for 5,052 funds including their financial position, structure,
    investment strategies, subscription activity, fund administration, and
    investment management services.

    “With total regulated funds passing the 9,500 mark in early 2008, CIMA’s
    publication of the Investment Statistics Digest for each calendar year will
    provide industry stakeholders and international regulators with the most
    comprehensive assessment of the offshore hedge funds industry,” said Mark
    Lewis, Senior Investment Funds Partner at Walkers and a member of CIMA’s E-
    Reporting Working Group. “Cayman is already the clear jurisdiction of choice
    for the institutional hedge fund market. The successful introduction of E-
    Reporting and the meaningful flow of industry-relevant information will
    continue to set Cayman apart and will certainly continue to enhance Cayman’s
    well-deserved reputation.”

    The report is based on information that CIMA has routinely required funds
    to submit as part of the regulator’s ongoing oversight of the industry.
    However until the E-Reporting platform for funds was implemented in March
    2007, CIMA did not have the ability to aggregate the data and report these
    statistics. The system has automated the submission and processing of the Fund
    Annual Return (FAR) and the annual financial statements from Cayman Islands
    regulated funds.

    Some of the statistics that the digest revealed for the financial year
    ending 31 December 2006 include the following:

    — The aggregate net asset value of the Cayman funds captured was US$1.387
    trillion;
    — New York had the largest concentration of net assets held by investment
    managers with US$388 billion or 28%;
    — The UK, predominantly London, had the second largest concentration of
    net assets managed with a total of US$250 billion, or 18%;
    — The proportion of funds suspending trading was extremely low at 0.1%;
    — The Cayman Islands was the primary location for the provision of
    administration services to the funds;
    — A master-feeder structure was used by 50% of the funds; and
    — Sixty-one percent of the funds reporting had a minimum subscription of
    US$500,000 or more.

    The Investment Statistics Digest is also accompanied by a list of
    Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), which explain in more detail how some of
    the statistics appearing in the digest were compiled and collated. To read the
    entire Investment Statistics Digest visit (Due to the length of the URL please
    copy and paste into your browser.)
    http://www.cimoney.com.ky/uploadedFiles/Publications/Investments_Statistical_D
    igest/2006STATISTICALDIGESTFINAL.pdf.

    “E-Reporting has not only provided an enhanced regulatory tool but is
    helping CIMA, as the regulator, to further increase the transparency of the
    industry. To our knowledge, this is the first time that a regulator has
    published aggregate statistics of the kind presented in the digest,” Cindy
    Scotland, CIMA’s Managing Director, said in a statement. “It extends the range
    of data available on hedge funds, not just in the Cayman Islands but
    globally.”

    About The Walkers Group

    From offices in the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, Dubai,
    Hong Kong, Jersey, London, and Tokyo, the Walkers group provides legal and
    management services to leading FORTUNE 100 and FTSE 100 global corporations
    and financial institutions, capital markets participants, investment fund
    managers, and growth- and middle-market companies.

    The Walkers group is comprised of leading offshore law firm, Walkers; fund
    services provider, Walkers Fund Services Limited; and SPV and corporate
    services providers, Walkers SPV Limited, Walkers (Jersey) Limited, and Walkers
    (BVI) Limited.

    In 2006, Walkers was named as the Who’s Who Legal Law Firm of the Year:
    Cayman Islands, the PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook Leading Cayman Islands Law
    Firm, The Lawyer’s Offshore Law Firm of the Year, and was one of two firms
    honored as “Offshore Legal Team of the Year” by the Society of Trust and
    Estate Practitioners (STEP).

    For more information on the Walkers group, visit us on the Web at
    http://www.walkersglobal.com or contact us by e-mail at
    info@walkersglobal.com. To contact Walkers by phone, call our Cayman Islands
    office at +345-949-0100.

    SOURCE Walkers

  • 30May

    CAYMAN ISLANDS, May 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Garmin Ltd.
    (Nasdaq: GRMN) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Formar
    Electronics N.V./S.A. (”Formar”), the distributor of Garmin’s automotive,
    outdoor recreation, fitness and marine products in Belgium and Luxembourg.
    The company will be renamed Garmin Belux N.V./S.A. and will retain its
    management, sales, marketing and supporting staff, consisting of 25 people and
    will continue operations at its current headquarters and warehouse facility
    located in Brussels.

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    Dr. Min Kao, chairman and CEO of Garmin Ltd., said, “Our strategy of
    acquiring key distributors in Europe has enabled us to increase our market
    share in Europe and we are now delighted to welcome the Formar team into the
    Garmin family. Formar has been successful in creating a strong presence for
    the Garmin brand in Belgium and Luxembourg. We anticipate the completion of
    this acquisition will enable us to expand on that success by improving our
    ability to support the key retail channels and OEMs in these countries.”

    Benoit de Bergeyck, managing director of Formar said, “We are very pleased
    that Garmin now has an office in the capital of Europe and we intend to work
    hard as Garmin Belux to build on our past success with the increased
    efficiencies that can be achieved as an integrated part of the Garmin European
    marketing and sales organization.”

    Financial terms of the transaction were not released.

    About Garmin Ltd.

    The global leader in satellite navigation, Garmin Ltd. and its
    subsidiaries have designed, manufactured, marketed and sold navigation,
    communication and information devices and applications since 1989 — most of
    which are enabled by GPS technology. Garmin’s products serve automotive,
    mobile, wireless, outdoor recreation, marine, aviation, and OEM applications.
    Garmin Ltd. is incorporated in the Cayman Islands, and its principal
    subsidiaries are located in the United States, Taiwan and the United Kingdom.
    For more information, visit Garmin’s virtual pressroom at
    http://www.garmin.com/pressroom or contact the Media Relations department at
    913-397-8200. Garmin is a registered trademark of Garmin Ltd.

    Notice on Forward-Looking Statements:

    This release includes forward-looking statements regarding Garmin Ltd. and
    its business. Such statements are based on management’s current expectations.
    The forward-looking events and circumstances discussed in this release may not
    occur and actual results could differ materially as a result of known and
    unknown risk factors and uncertainties affecting Garmin, including, but not
    limited to, the risk factors listed in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
    year ended December 29, 2007 filed by Garmin with the Securities and Exchange
    Commission (Commission file number 0-31983). A copy of Garmin’s Form 10-K can
    be downloaded at
    http://www.garmin.com/aboutGarmin/invRelations/finReports.html. No
    forward-looking statement can be guaranteed. Forward-looking statements speak
    only as of the date on which they are made and Garmin undertakes no obligation
    to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a
    result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

    SOURCE Garmin Ltd.

  • 02May

    CAYMAN ISLANDS, May 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Garmin Ltd.
    (Nasdaq: GRMN), the global leader in satellite navigation, today made
    available its 2007 annual report to shareholders on the Garmin Investor
    Relations Web site at
    http://www8.garmin.com/aboutGarmin/invRelations/finReports.html. Hard copies
    are available free of charge to Garmin Ltd. shareholders by calling the Garmin
    Investor Relations department at (913) 397-8200. Garmin Ltd. has also
    provided the annual report to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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    About Garmin

    The global leader in satellite navigation, Garmin Ltd. and its
    subsidiaries have designed, manufactured, marketed and sold navigation,
    communication and information devices and applications since 1989 — most of
    which are enabled by GPS technology. Garmin’s products serve automotive,
    mobile, wireless, outdoor recreation, marine, aviation, and OEM applications.
    Garmin Ltd. is incorporated in the Cayman Islands, and its principal
    subsidiaries are located in the United States, Taiwan and the United Kingdom.
    For more information, visit Garmin’s virtual pressroom at
    http://www.garmin.com/pressroom or contact the Media Relations department at
    913-397-8200. Garmin is a registered trademark of Garmin Ltd. or its
    subsidiaries.

    SOURCE Garmin Ltd.

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