Director Shareholding

Hiscox PLC
02 May 2003



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

2 May 2003

                                   HISCOX PLC

                             Director Shareholding


Hiscox Plc (the 'Company') was notified on 1 May 2003 that, following the
acquisition of 4,691 ordinary 5p shares in the Company on 29 April 2003, Stuart
Bridges now has a beneficial interest of 184,284 ordinary shares or 0.06% of the
issued share capital of the Company.


The executive directors of the Company are potential beneficiaries of the
Company's employee share ownership plan trust ('ESOP') and are therefore also
each deemed to have an additional non-beneficial interest in 255,466 Hiscox
shares owned by Hiscox Trustees Limited, the trustee of the ESOP.




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