Item  2.02. Results of Operations and Financial Condition.
     On November 3, 2009, HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc. announced its results for the Third Quarter of 2009. A press release setting forth the announcement is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
     
No.   Exhibit
 
   
99.1
  Earnings Press Release dated November 3, 2009
     The information contained herein shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act.
SIGNATURES
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
         
  HCC INSURANCE HOLDINGS, INC.
 
 
Date: November 3, 2009       
  By:   /s/ Randy D. Rinicella    
    Randy D. Rinicella,   
    Senior Vice President and
General Counsel 
 
 

 

 

EXHIBIT INDEX
     
No.   Exhibit
 
   
99.1
  Earnings Press Release dated November 3, 2009