Directors Interests

Hiscox PLC
8 May 2002


     8 May 2002

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



                     Hiscox plc ('Hiscox' or the 'Company')

                              Directors Interests

The Company has been informed that the A.N. Foster 1987 Settlement Trust sold
90,000 ordinary shares of 5p each in the Company at 158p per share on Friday 3
May 2002.

Robert Hiscox, Chairman of Hiscox, is a trustee of the A.N. Foster 1987
Settlement Trust and accordingly had a non-beneficial interest in the
aforementioned sale.

As a consequence of the sale, Robert Hiscox's non-beneficial interest in the
Company is reduced to 745,311 shares, representing 0.4 per cent. of the Company.
Robert Hiscox's beneficial interest in 7,849,046 shares, representing 4.1 per
cent. of the Company, remains unchanged.




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