Alterra Capital Holdings Limited operates in the Fire, marine, and casualty insurance sector. Alterra Capital Holdings Limited (Alterra), formerly Max Capital Group Ltd., is a provider of specialty insurance and reinsurance products to corporations, public entities and property and casualty insurers. The Company operates in five segments: insurance, reinsurance, U.S. specialty, Alterra at Lloyd's and life and annuity reinsurance. In Bermuda, Alterra conducts its insurance and reinsurance operations through Alterra Bermuda. In Europe, it conducts its non-Lloyd's operations from Dublin, Ireland through Alterra Insurance Europe and Alterra Re Europe. In the United States, its insurance operations are conducted through Alterra E&S, a Delaware-domiciled excess and surplus insurance company, and Alterra America, a Delaware-domiciled admitted insurance company. In September 2010, the Company announced the amalgamation of its Bermuda operating subsidiaries, Alterra Insurance Limited and Harbor Point Re Limited. The newly amalgamated company has been renamed, Alterra Bermuda Limited. In
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