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 <div style="border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 6.0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"> <p align="center" style="border:none;margin:0pt 0pt 12.0pt;padding:0pt;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 7, 2007</font></b></p> <p align="right" style="border:none;margin:0pt 0pt 12.0pt;padding:0pt;text-align:right;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Registration No. 333-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></b></p> </div>

<p style="font-weight:bold;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="5" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:18.0pt;">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</font></b></p>

<p style="font-weight:bold;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Washington, D.C. 20549</font></b></p>

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<p style="font-weight:bold;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="5" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:18.0pt;">FORM S-8</font></b></p>

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<p style="font-weight:bold;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:12.0pt;">REGISTRATION STATEMENT</font></b></p>

<p style="font-weight:bold;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:12.0pt;">UNDER</font></b></p>

<p style="font-weight:bold;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:12.0pt;">THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</font></b></p>

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<p style="font-weight:bold;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="5" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:18.0pt;">WHITE MOUNTAINS INSURANCE GROUP, LTD.</font></b></p>

<p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</font></p>

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  <p align="center" style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><!-- SET mrlNoTableShading --><b>Bermuda</b></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">94-2708455</font></b></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(State or other
  jurisdiction<br>
  of incorporation or organization)</font></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(I.R.S. Employer
  Identification No.)</font></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="font-weight:bold;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">80 South Main Street,
Hanover, New Hampshire 03755</font></b></p>

<p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(Address of Principal Executive Offices)</font></p>

<p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

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<p style="font-weight:bold;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Nonqualified Stock Option
Agreement</font></b></p>

<p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(full title of plans)</font></p>

<p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

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<p style="font-weight:bold;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Robert L. Seelig</font></b></p>

<p style="font-weight:bold;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Vice President and
General Counsel</font></b></p>

<p style="font-weight:bold;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">White Mountains Insurance
Group, Ltd.</font></b></p>

<p style="font-weight:bold;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">80 South Main Street</font></b></p>

<p style="font-weight:bold;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Hanover, New Hampshire
03755</font></b></p>

<p style="font-weight:bold;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(603) 640-2200</font></b></p>

<p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(Name, address and telephone number, including area
code, of agent for service)</font></p>

<p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="font-weight:bold;margin:0pt 0pt 12.0pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">CALCULATION
OF REGISTRATION FEE</font></b></p>

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  securities<br>
  to&nbsp;be&nbsp;registered</p>
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  <p style="font-weight:bold;line-height:8.0pt;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>
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  <td width="1%" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;border-right:none;border-top:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:1.22%;">
  <p style="font-weight:bold;line-height:8.0pt;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>
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  <td width="13%" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;border-right:none;border-top:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:13.86%;">
  <p style="font-weight:bold;line-height:8.0pt;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:8.0pt;">Amount<br>
  to&nbsp;be<br>
  registered</font></b></p>
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  <td width="1%" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:1.3%;">
  <p style="font-weight:bold;line-height:8.0pt;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>
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  <td width="1%" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;border-right:none;border-top:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:1.32%;">
  <p style="font-weight:bold;line-height:8.0pt;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>
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  <td width="13%" colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;border-right:none;border-top:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:13.86%;">
  <p style="font-weight:bold;line-height:8.0pt;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:8.0pt;">Proposed&nbsp;maximum<br>
  offering&nbsp;price&nbsp;per<br>
  share</font></b></p>
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  <td width="1%" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:1.3%;">
  <p style="font-weight:bold;line-height:8.0pt;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>
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  <td width="1%" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;border-right:none;border-top:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:1.32%;">
  <p style="font-weight:bold;line-height:8.0pt;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>
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  <td width="14%" colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;border-right:none;border-top:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:14.02%;">
  <p style="font-weight:bold;line-height:8.0pt;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:8.0pt;">Proposed&nbsp;maximum<br>
  aggregate&nbsp;offering<br>
  price</font></b></p>
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  <td width="1%" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:1.3%;">
  <p style="font-weight:bold;line-height:8.0pt;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>
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  <td width="1%" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;border-right:none;border-top:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:1.32%;">
  <p style="font-weight:bold;line-height:8.0pt;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>
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  <td width="13%" colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;border-right:none;border-top:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:13.86%;">
  <p style="font-weight:bold;line-height:8.0pt;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:8.0pt;">Amount&nbsp;of<br>
  registration<br>
  fee</font></b></p>
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  <td width="0%" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;border-right:none;border-top:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:.34%;">
  <p style="font-weight:bold;line-height:8.0pt;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt 10.0pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-indent:-10.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Common Shares, par value
  $1.00<br>
  per share</font></p>
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  <td width="1%" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;border-left:none;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:1.2%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="1%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:1.22%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="13%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:13.86%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:right;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">200,000 (1)</font></p>
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  <td width="1%" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;border-left:none;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:1.3%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="1%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:1.32%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="1%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;width:1.0%;">
  <p align="left" style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:left;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">$</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="12%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:12.88%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:right;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">591.99 (2)</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="1%" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;border-left:none;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:1.3%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:right;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="1%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:1.32%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="1%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;width:1.0%;">
  <p align="left" style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:left;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">$</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="13%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:13.04%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:right;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">118,398,000 (2)</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="1%" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;border-left:none;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:1.3%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:right;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="1%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:1.32%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="1%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;width:1.0%;">
  <p align="left" style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:left;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">$</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="12%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:12.88%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:right;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">3,635</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="0%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:.34%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:right;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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<p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:3.0pt 0pt 12.0pt 20.0pt;text-indent:-20.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(1)</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font>Pursuant to Rule
416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration
Statement covers an indeterminate amount of interests to be offered or sold pursuant
to the employee nonqualified stock option agreement described herein because
the number of Common Shares issuable upon the exercise of the nonqualified
stock option registered hereby is subject to adjustment to prevent dilution by
reason of a share or extraordinary cash dividend, share split,
recapitalization, merger, consolidation, reorganization, combination, share
exchange or other similar transaction.</p>

<p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12.0pt 20.0pt;text-indent:-20.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(2)</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font>Estimated
solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule
457(h) and (c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and based on the
average of the high and low prices of the Registrant&#146;s Common Shares reported
on the New York Stock Exchange on June 6, 2007.</p>


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<p align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">EXPLANATORY STATEMENT</font></b></p>

<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-autospace:none;text-indent:36.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">This Registration
Statement on Form S-8 relates to the registration of 200,000 Common Shares, par
value $1.00 per share, of White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. (the &#147;Registrant&#148;)
under a Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement dated March 6, 2007 by and between
the Registrant and Raymond Barrette.</font></p>

<p align="center" style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">PART I</font></b></p>

<p align="center" style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION
10(A) PROSPECTUSES</font></b></p>

<p style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-autospace:none;text-indent:36.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The
document(s) containing the information specified in Part I of Form S-8 with
respect to the Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement, have been or will be sent
or given to the employee optionee thereunder as specified by Rule 428(b)(1)
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#147;Securities Act&#148;).&nbsp;
These documents and the documents incorporated by reference into this
Registration Statement, taken together, constitute prospectuses that meet the
requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.</font></p>

<p align="center" style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">PART II</font></b></p>

<p align="center" style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
REGISTRATION STATEMENT</font></b></p>

<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10.0pt;margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Item
3.&nbsp; Incorporation of</font></b>  <b>Documents
by Reference.</b></p>

<p style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-autospace:none;text-indent:36.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The following documents heretofore filed by the
Registrant (Commission file no. 1-8993) pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended (the &#147;Exchange Act&#148;), hereby are incorporated in this
Registration Statement by reference:</font></p>

<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10.0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12.0pt 72.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(a)</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font>the
Registrant&#146;s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December&nbsp;31,
2006 (the &#147;2006 Form 10-K&#148;);</p>

<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10.0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12.0pt 72.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(b)</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font>all
other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act
since December&nbsp;31, 2006; and</p>

<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10.0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12.0pt 72.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(c)</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font>the
description of the Registrant&#146;s Common Shares, par value $1.00 per share,
contained in the Registrant&#146;s Form 8-A filed December&nbsp;16, 1999.</p>

<p style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-autospace:none;text-indent:36.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">All
documents subsequently filed by the Registrant or the Nonqualified Stock Option
Agreement pursuant to Sections&nbsp;13(a), 13(c), 14, and 15(d) of the Exchange
Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration
Statement which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which
deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be part hereof
from the date of filing such documents.</font></p>

<p style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-autospace:none;text-indent:36.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Any
statement contained herein or in any document incorporated or deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded
for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement
contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or
is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such
statement.&nbsp; Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be
deemed to constitute a part of this Registration Statement, except as so
modified or superseded.</font></p>

<p style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Item
4.&nbsp; Description of Securities.</font></b></p>

<p style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-autospace:none;text-indent:36.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Not
applicable.</font></p>

<p style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Item
5.&nbsp; Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.</font></b></p>

<p style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-autospace:none;text-indent:36.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Not
applicable.</font></p>


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<p style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Item
6.&nbsp; Indemnification of Directors and Officers.</font></b></p>

<p style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-autospace:none;text-indent:36.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Section
33 of the Registrant&#146;s Bye-laws (the &#147;Bye-laws&#148;) provides that the Registrant
will indemnify its officers and directors to the fullest extent possible under
the Bermuda Companies Act of 1981 (as amended from time to time, the &#147;Companies
Act&#148;).&nbsp; Without limiting the foregoing, the directors, secretary and other
officers (including any alternate director or any person appointed to any
committee by the board of directors or any person who is or was serving at the
request of the Registrant as a director, officer, employee or agent of another
corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise (including,
without limitation, any employee benefit plan)) and every one of them, and
their heirs, executors and administrators, shall be indemnified and secured
harmless out of the assets of the Registrant from and against all actions,
costs, charges, losses, damages and expenses which they or any of them, their
heirs, executors or administrators, shall or may incur or sustain by or by reason
of any act done, concurred in or omitted (actual or alleged) in or about the
execution of their duty, or supposed duty, or in their respective offices or
trusts, and none of them shall be answerable for the acts, receipts, neglects
or defaults of the others of them or for joining in any receipts for the sake
of conformity, or for any bankers or other persons with whom any moneys or
effects belonging to the Registrant shall or may be lodged or deposited for
safe custody, or for insufficiency or deficiency of any security upon which any
moneys of or belonging to the Registrant shall be placed out on or invested, or
for any other loss, misfortune or damage which may happen in the execution of
their respective offices or trusts, or in relation thereto, provided that this
indemnity shall not extend to any matter in respect of which such person is, or
may be, found guilty of fraud or dishonesty.</font></p>

<p style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-autospace:none;text-indent:36.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The
Registrant may purchase and maintain insurance to protect itself and any
director, officer or other person entitled to indemnification pursuant to the
Bye-laws to the fullest extent permitted by law.</font></p>

<p style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-autospace:none;text-indent:36.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">All
reasonable expenses incurred by or on behalf of any person entitled to
indemnification pursuant to Section 33 of the Bye-laws in connection with any
proceeding shall be advanced to such person by the Registrant within twenty
(20) business days after the receipt by the Registrant of a statement or
statements from such person requesting such advance or advances from time to
time, whether prior to or after final disposition of such proceeding.&nbsp;
Such statement or statements shall reasonably evidence the expenses incurred by
such person and, if required by law or requested by the Registrant at the time
of such advance, shall include or be accompanied by an undertaking by or on
behalf of such person to repay the amounts advanced if it should ultimately be
determined that such person is not entitled to be indemnified against such
expenses pursuant to the Bye-laws.</font></p>

<p style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-autospace:none;text-indent:36.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The
right of indemnification and advancement of expenses provided in the Bye-laws
shall not be exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking
indemnification may otherwise be entitled, and the provisions of the Bye-laws
shall inure to the benefit of the heirs and legal representatives of any person
entitled to indemnity under the Bye-laws and shall be applicable to proceedings
commenced or continuing after the adoption of the Bye-laws, whether arising
from acts or omissions occurring before or after such adoption.&nbsp; Any
repeal or modification of the foregoing provisions of Section 33 of the
Bye-laws shall not adversely affect any right or protection existing at the
time of such repeal or modification.</font></p>

<p style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-autospace:none;text-indent:36.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Section
98 of the Companies Act provides that the Registrant may indemnify its
directors and officers in their capacity as such in respect of any loss arising
or liability attached to them by virtue of any rule of law in respect of any
negligence, default, breach of duty or breach of trust of which a director or
officer may be guilty in relation to the Registrant other than his or her own
fraud or dishonesty.&nbsp; Bermuda law permits the Registrant to indemnify a
director or officer against any liability incurred by him in defending any
proceedings, whether civil or criminal, in which judgment is given in his favor
or in which he is acquitted or when other similar relief is granted to him.</font></p>

<p style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-autospace:none;text-indent:36.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Insurance
is maintained on a regular basis against liabilities arising on the part of
directors and officers out of their performance in such capacities or arising
on the part of the Registrant out of its foregoing indemnification provisions,
subject to certain exclusions and to the policy limits.</font></p>

<p style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Item
7.&nbsp; Exemption from Registration Claimed.</font></b></p>

<p style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-autospace:none;text-indent:36.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Not
applicable.</font></p>


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<p style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Item
8.&nbsp; Exhibits.</font></b></p>

<p style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-autospace:none;text-indent:36.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The following exhibits are furnished with this
Registration Statement:</font></p>

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  <p style="font-weight:bold;line-height:8.0pt;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" colspan="3" valign="bottom" style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:87.38%;">
  <p style="font-weight:bold;line-height:8.0pt;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:8.0pt;">Description</font></b></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:2.38%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" colspan="3" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:87.38%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(4)(a)</font></p>
  </td>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" colspan="3" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:87.38%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Memorandum of Continuance of the Registrant
  (incorporated by reference to Exhibit (3)(I) of the Registrant&#146;s current
  report on Form 8-K filed November&nbsp;1, 1999 (Commission file number
  1-8993)).</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:2.38%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:2.38%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(4)(b)</font></p>
  </td>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" colspan="3" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:87.38%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Bye-Laws of the Registrant (incorporated by
  reference to Annex III of the Registrant&#146;s Registration Statement on Form S-4
  (No. 333-87649) dated September 23, 1999).</font></p>
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  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:2.38%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="42%" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:42.5%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:2.38%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="42%" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:42.5%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(5)(a)*</font></p>
  </td>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Opinion of Conyers Dill &amp; Pearman.</font></p>
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  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:2.38%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="42%" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:42.5%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:2.38%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="42%" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:42.5%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  </td>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement dated March 6,
  2007 by and between the Registrant and Raymond Barrette (incorporated by
  reference to Exhibit 99.1 of the Registrant&#146;s current report on Form 8-K
  Amendment No. 1 filed March 7, 2007 (Commission file number 1-8993)).</font></p>
  </td>
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  </td>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="42%" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:42.5%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:2.38%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="42%" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:42.5%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(23)(a)*</font></p>
  </td>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP</font></p>
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  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:2.38%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="42%" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:42.5%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:2.38%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="42%" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:42.5%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(23)(b)*</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:2.38%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Consent of Conyers Dill &amp; Pearman (included in
  Exhibit (5)(a)).</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:2.38%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="42%" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:42.5%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:2.38%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="42%" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:42.5%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(24)*</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:2.38%;">
  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Powers of Attorney.</font></p>
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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10.0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12.0pt 20.0pt;text-indent:-20.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">*</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font>Filed
herewith.</p>

<p style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Item
9.&nbsp; Undertakings.</font></b></p>

<p style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-autospace:none;text-indent:36.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The
undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:</font></p>

<p style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-autospace:none;text-indent:36.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(a)(1)&nbsp;&nbsp;To file, during any period in which
offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration
Statement:</font></p>

<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10.0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12.0pt 108.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(i)</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font>To
include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;</p>

<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10.0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12.0pt 108.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(ii)</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font>To
reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date
of the Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment
thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental
change in the information set forth in the Registration Statement -
notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities
offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that
which is registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated
maximum range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the
Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume
and price represent no more than 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate
offering price set forth in &#147;Calculation of Registration Fee&#148; table in the
effective registration statement; and</p>

<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10.0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12.0pt 108.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(iii)</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font>To include any material
information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed
in the Registration Statement or any material change to such information in the
Registration Statement;</p>

<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10.0pt;margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-autospace:none;"><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">provided</font></u>
, <u>however</u> , that paragraphs&nbsp;(a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply
if information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Securities
and Exchange Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the Registration
Statement.</p>

<p style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-autospace:none;text-indent:72.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(2)&nbsp;&nbsp;That,
for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each
such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration
statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such
securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering
thereof.</font></p>

<p style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-autospace:none;text-indent:72.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(3)&nbsp;&nbsp;To
remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the
securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the
offering.</font></p>


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<p style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-autospace:none;text-indent:36.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(b)&nbsp;&nbsp;That,
for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing
of the Registrant&#146;s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the
Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan&#146;s
annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a
new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.</font></p>

<p style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-autospace:none;text-indent:36.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(c)&nbsp;&nbsp;Insofar
as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be
permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant
pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been
advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such
indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and
is, therefore, unenforceable.&nbsp; In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant
of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of
the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is
asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the
securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its
counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court
of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is
against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed
by the final adjudication of such issue.</font></p>


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<p align="center" style="margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">SIGNATURES</font></b></p>

<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10.0pt;margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-autospace:none;text-indent:36.0pt;"><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">The Registrant</font></i>.&nbsp;
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form&nbsp;S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in <b>Hamilton, Bermuda,</b>
on June 7, 2007.</p>

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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">By</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">/s/ ROBERT L. SEELIG</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Name: Robert L. Seelig</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Title: Vice President and General Counsel</font></p>
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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10.0pt;margin:.05pt 0pt 12.0pt 36.0pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-autospace:none;text-indent:36.0pt;"><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">Directors and Officers of the
Registrant.</font></i> &nbsp; Pursuant to the requirements of the
Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below by
the following persons in the capacities indicated and on the dates indicated
below.</p>

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  <p align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">June 7, 2007</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">HOWARD L. CLARK, JR.*</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Director</font></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">June 7, 2007</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Howard L. Clark, Jr.</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">ROBERT P. COCHRAN*</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Director</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">June 7, 2007</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Robert P. Cochran</font></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">MORGAN W. DAVIS*</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Director</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <td width="20%" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:20.58%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">June 7, 2007</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Morgan W. Davis</font></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">A. MICHAEL FRINQUELLI*</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Director</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">June 7, 2007</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">A. Michael Frinquelli</font></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">GEORGE J. GILLESPIE III*</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Director</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">June 7, 2007</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">George J. Gillespie III</font></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">JOHN D. GILLESPIE*</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Director</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">June 7, 2007</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">John D. Gillespie</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">EDITH E. HOLIDAY*</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Director</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">June 7, 2007</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Edith E. Holiday</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">LOWNDES A. SMITH*</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Director</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="20%" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:20.58%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">June 7, 2007</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Lowndes A. Smith</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">ALLAN L. WATERS*</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Director</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="20%" valign="top" style="padding:0pt .7pt 0pt 0pt;width:20.58%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">June 7, 2007</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Allan L. Waters</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">/s/ ROBERT L. SEELIG</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Robert L. Seelig</font></p>
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  <p style="font-weight:bold;line-height:8.0pt;margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:8.0pt;">Description</font></b></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Memorandum of Continuance of the Registrant
  (incorporated by reference to Exhibit (3)(I) of the Registrant&#146;s current
  report on Form 8-K filed November&nbsp;1, 1999 (Commission file number
  1-8993)).</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Bye-Laws of the Registrant (incorporated by
  reference to Annex III of the Registrant&#146;s Registration Statement on Form S-4
  (No. 333-87649) dated September 23, 1999.</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Opinion of Conyers Dill &amp; Pearman.</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement dated March 6,
  2007 by and between the Registrant and Raymond Barrette (incorporated by
  reference to Exhibit 99.1 of the Registrant&#146;s current report on Form 8-K
  Amendment No. 1 filed March 7, 2007 (Commission file number 1-8993)).</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(23)(a)*</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0pt 0pt .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Consent of Conyers Dill &amp; Pearman (included in
  Exhibit (5)(a)).</font></p>
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 7, 2007
Registration No. 333-
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
WHITE MOUNTAINS INSURANCE GROUP, LTD.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Bermuda
94-2708455
(State or other
  jurisdiction
of incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S. Employer
  Identification No.)
80 South Main Street,
Hanover, New Hampshire 03755
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
Nonqualified Stock Option
Agreement
(full title of plans)
Robert L. Seelig
Vice President and
General Counsel
White Mountains Insurance
Group, Ltd.
80 South Main Street
Hanover, New Hampshire
03755
(603) 640-2200
(Name, address and telephone number, including area
code, of agent for service)
CALCULATION
OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of
securities
to be registered
Amount
to be
registered
Proposed maximum
offering price per
share
Proposed maximum
aggregate offering
price
Amount of
registration
fee
Common Shares, par value
  $1.00
per share
200,000 (1)
$
591.99 (2)
$
118,398,000 (2)
$
3,635
(1)
Pursuant to Rule
416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration
Statement covers an indeterminate amount of interests to be offered or sold pursuant
to the employee nonqualified stock option agreement described herein because
the number of Common Shares issuable upon the exercise of the nonqualified
stock option registered hereby is subject to adjustment to prevent dilution by
reason of a share or extraordinary cash dividend, share split,
recapitalization, merger, consolidation, reorganization, combination, share
exchange or other similar transaction.
(2)
Estimated
solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule
457(h) and (c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and based on the
average of the high and low prices of the Registrant's Common Shares reported
on the New York Stock Exchange on June 6, 2007.
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
This Registration
Statement on Form S-8 relates to the registration of 200,000 Common Shares, par
value $1.00 per share, of White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. (the "Registrant")
under a Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement dated March 6, 2007 by and between
the Registrant and Raymond Barrette.
PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION
10(A) PROSPECTUSES
The
document(s) containing the information specified in Part I of Form S-8 with
respect to the Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement, have been or will be sent
or given to the employee optionee thereunder as specified by Rule 428(b)(1)
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). 
These documents and the documents incorporated by reference into this
Registration Statement, taken together, constitute prospectuses that meet the
requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item
3.  Incorporation of
Documents
by Reference.
The following documents heretofore filed by the
Registrant (Commission file no. 1-8993) pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), hereby are incorporated in this
Registration Statement by reference:
(a)
the
Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
2006 (the "2006 Form 10-K");
(b)
all
other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act
since December 31, 2006; and
(c)
the
description of the Registrant's Common Shares, par value $1.00 per share,
contained in the Registrant's Form 8-A filed December 16, 1999.
All
documents subsequently filed by the Registrant or the Nonqualified Stock Option
Agreement pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, and 15(d) of the Exchange
Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration
Statement which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which
deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be part hereof
from the date of filing such documents.
Any
statement contained herein or in any document incorporated or deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded
for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement
contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or
is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such
statement.  Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be
deemed to constitute a part of this Registration Statement, except as so
modified or superseded.
Item
4.  Description of Securities.
Not
applicable.
Item
5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
Not
applicable.
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Item
6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
Section
33 of the Registrant's Bye-laws (the "Bye-laws") provides that the Registrant
will indemnify its officers and directors to the fullest extent possible under
the Bermuda Companies Act of 1981 (as amended from time to time, the "Companies
Act").  Without limiting the foregoing, the directors, secretary and other
officers (including any alternate director or any person appointed to any
committee by the board of directors or any person who is or was serving at the
request of the Registrant as a director, officer, employee or agent of another
corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise (including,
without limitation, any employee benefit plan)) and every one of them, and
their heirs, executors and administrators, shall be indemnified and secured
harmless out of the assets of the Registrant from and against all actions,
costs, charges, losses, damages and expenses which they or any of them, their
heirs, executors or administrators, shall or may incur or sustain by or by reason
of any act done, concurred in or omitted (actual or alleged) in or about the
execution of their duty, or supposed duty, or in their respective offices or
trusts, and none of them shall be answerable for the acts, receipts, neglects
or defaults of the others of them or for joining in any receipts for the sake
of conformity, or for any bankers or other persons with whom any moneys or
effects belonging to the Registrant shall or may be lodged or deposited for
safe custody, or for insufficiency or deficiency of any security upon which any
moneys of or belonging to the Registrant shall be placed out on or invested, or
for any other loss, misfortune or damage which may happen in the execution of
their respective offices or trusts, or in relation thereto, provided that this
indemnity shall not extend to any matter in respect of which such person is, or
may be, found guilty of fraud or dishonesty.
The
Registrant may purchase and maintain insurance to protect itself and any
director, officer or other person entitled to indemnification pursuant to the
Bye-laws to the fullest extent permitted by law.
All
reasonable expenses incurred by or on behalf of any person entitled to
indemnification pursuant to Section 33 of the Bye-laws in connection with any
proceeding shall be advanced to such person by the Registrant within twenty
(20) business days after the receipt by the Registrant of a statement or
statements from such person requesting such advance or advances from time to
time, whether prior to or after final disposition of such proceeding. 
Such statement or statements shall reasonably evidence the expenses incurred by
such person and, if required by law or requested by the Registrant at the time
of such advance, shall include or be accompanied by an undertaking by or on
behalf of such person to repay the amounts advanced if it should ultimately be
determined that such person is not entitled to be indemnified against such
expenses pursuant to the Bye-laws.
The
right of indemnification and advancement of expenses provided in the Bye-laws
shall not be exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking
indemnification may otherwise be entitled, and the provisions of the Bye-laws
shall inure to the benefit of the heirs and legal representatives of any person
entitled to indemnity under the Bye-laws and shall be applicable to proceedings
commenced or continuing after the adoption of the Bye-laws, whether arising
from acts or omissions occurring before or after such adoption.  Any
repeal or modification of the foregoing provisions of Section 33 of the
Bye-laws shall not adversely affect any right or protection existing at the
time of such repeal or modification.
Section
98 of the Companies Act provides that the Registrant may indemnify its
directors and officers in their capacity as such in respect of any loss arising
or liability attached to them by virtue of any rule of law in respect of any
negligence, default, breach of duty or breach of trust of which a director or
officer may be guilty in relation to the Registrant other than his or her own
fraud or dishonesty.  Bermuda law permits the Registrant to indemnify a
director or officer against any liability incurred by him in defending any
proceedings, whether civil or criminal, in which judgment is given in his favor
or in which he is acquitted or when other similar relief is granted to him.
Insurance
is maintained on a regular basis against liabilities arising on the part of
directors and officers out of their performance in such capacities or arising
on the part of the Registrant out of its foregoing indemnification provisions,
subject to certain exclusions and to the policy limits.
Item
7.  Exemption from Registration Claimed.
Not
applicable.
3
Item
8.  Exhibits.
The following exhibits are furnished with this
Registration Statement:
Exhibit No.
Description
(4)(a)
Memorandum of Continuance of the Registrant
  (incorporated by reference to Exhibit (3)(I) of the Registrant's current
  report on Form 8-K filed November 1, 1999 (Commission file number
  1-8993)).
(4)(b)
Bye-Laws of the Registrant (incorporated by
  reference to Annex III of the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-4
  (No. 333-87649) dated September 23, 1999).
(5)(a)*
Opinion of Conyers Dill & Pearman.
(10)
Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement dated March 6,
  2007 by and between the Registrant and Raymond Barrette (incorporated by
  reference to Exhibit 99.1 of the Registrant's current report on Form 8-K
  Amendment No. 1 filed March 7, 2007 (Commission file number 1-8993)).
(23)(a)*
Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
(23)(b)*
Consent of Conyers Dill & Pearman (included in
  Exhibit (5)(a)).
(24)*
Powers of Attorney.
*
Filed
herewith.
Item
9.  Undertakings.
The
undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:
(a)(1)  To file, during any period in which
offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration
Statement:
(i)
To
include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;
(ii)
To
reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date
of the Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment
thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental
change in the information set forth in the Registration Statement -
notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities
offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that
which is registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated
maximum range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the
Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume
and price represent no more than 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate
offering price set forth in "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the
effective registration statement; and
(iii)
To include any material
information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed
in the Registration Statement or any material change to such information in the
Registration Statement;
provided
,
however
, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply
if information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Securities
and Exchange Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the Registration
Statement.
(2)  That,
for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each
such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration
statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such
securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering
thereof.
(3)  To
remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the
securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the
offering.
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(b)  That,
for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing
of the Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the
Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's
annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a
new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.
(c)  Insofar
as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be
permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant
pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been
advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such
indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and
is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant
of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of
the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is
asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the
securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its
counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court
of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is
against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed
by the final adjudication of such issue.
5
SIGNATURES
The Registrant
. 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in
Hamilton, Bermuda,
on June 7, 2007.
WHITE MOUNTAINS INSURANCE
GROUP, LTD.
By
/s/ ROBERT L. SEELIG
Name: Robert L. Seelig
Title: Vice President and General Counsel
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Directors and Officers of the
Registrant.
Pursuant to the requirements of the
Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below by
the following persons in the capacities indicated and on the dates indicated
below.
Signatures
Title
Date
RAYMOND BARRETTE*
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
June 7, 2007
Raymond Barrette
(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ DAVID T. FOY
Executive Vice President and Chief
June 7, 2007
David T. Foy
Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer)
/s/ J. BRIAN PALMER
Chief Accounting Officer
June 7, 2007
J. Brian Palmer
(Principal Accounting Officer)
* executed by:
/s/ ROBERT L. SEELIG
Robert L. Seelig
Attorney-in-Fact
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Signatures
Title
Date
BRUCE R. BERKOWITZ*
Director
June 7, 2007
Bruce R. Berkowitz
HOWARD L. CLARK, JR.*
Director
June 7, 2007
Howard L. Clark, Jr.
ROBERT P. COCHRAN*
Director
June 7, 2007
Robert P. Cochran
MORGAN W. DAVIS*
Director
June 7, 2007
Morgan W. Davis
A. MICHAEL FRINQUELLI*
Director
June 7, 2007
A. Michael Frinquelli
GEORGE J. GILLESPIE III*
Director
June 7, 2007
George J. Gillespie III
JOHN D. GILLESPIE*
Director
June 7, 2007
John D. Gillespie
EDITH E. HOLIDAY*
Director
June 7, 2007
Edith E. Holiday
LOWNDES A. SMITH*
Director
June 7, 2007
Lowndes A. Smith
ALLAN L. WATERS*
Director
June 7, 2007
Allan L. Waters
* executed by:
/s/ ROBERT L. SEELIG
Robert L. Seelig
Attorney-in-Fact
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit No.
Description
(4)(a)
Memorandum of Continuance of the Registrant
  (incorporated by reference to Exhibit (3)(I) of the Registrant's current
  report on Form 8-K filed November 1, 1999 (Commission file number
  1-8993)).
(4)(b)
Bye-Laws of the Registrant (incorporated by
  reference to Annex III of the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-4
  (No. 333-87649) dated September 23, 1999.
(5)(a)*
Opinion of Conyers Dill & Pearman.
(10)
Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement dated March 6,
  2007 by and between the Registrant and Raymond Barrette (incorporated by
  reference to Exhibit 99.1 of the Registrant's current report on Form 8-K
  Amendment No. 1 filed March 7, 2007 (Commission file number 1-8993)).
(23)(a)*
Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
(23)(b)*
Consent of Conyers Dill & Pearman (included in
  Exhibit (5)(a)).
(24)*
Powers of Attorney.
*
Filed
herewith.
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