AGM Statement

RNS Number : 3635N

Hiscox Ltd

09 June 2010

 



HAMILTON, Bermuda: The Board of Hiscox Ltd (the 'Company' and 'Hiscox') confirms that all resolutions proposed at its Annual General Meeting held today, 9 June 2010, were duly passed by shareholders, each on a show of hands. Proxies were received in respect of 288,406,635 Hiscox shares representing 75.88% of Hiscox's shares in issue.

380,071,909 ordinary shares (excluding treasury shares) were in issue as at 9 June 2010, each carrying one vote.

No.	Resolution	Votes for	Votes discretionary	Votes against	Votes withheld
1.	To receive the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2009	283,126,160	1,916,754	3,354,003	9,718
2.	To approve the Directors' remuneration report for the year ended 31 December 2009	276,024,472	1,916,354	9,957,239	508,570
3.	To re-appoint R S Childs as a director	282,000,989	1,916,754	3,210,057	1,278,835
4.	To re-appoint S J Bridges as a director	282,001,489	1,916,754	3,209,557	1,278,835
5.	To appoint KPMG as auditors of the Company and to authorise the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration	283,976,019	1,916,754	1,234,991	1,278,835
6.	To authorise the directors to allot shares	264,784,903	1,916,754	18,091,408	3,613,570
7.	To disapply pre-emption rights	285,200,615	1,916,754	9,431	1,279,835
8.	To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares	284,974,510	1,916,754	236,536	1,278,835

Resolutions 1-6 (inclusive) were proposed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 7 and 8 were proposed as special resolutions. The full text of the resolutions is set out in The Notice of the Annual General Meeting on available on the Company's website.  Two copies of the special business resolutions (Resolutions 7 and 8) have been submitted to the UK Listing Authority and will shortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at:

UK Listing Authority

Financial Services Authority

25 The North Colonnade

Canary Wharf,

London E14 5HS

Telephone: [phone]

9 June 2010

Enquiries:

Charles Dupplin

Company Secretary, Hiscox Ltd

Telephone: [phone]

 

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