TRH Transatlantic Holdings Common Stock

At its regularly scheduled meeting, the Board of Directors of Transatlantic Reinsurance Company, a subsidiary of Transatlantic Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TRH), elected the following officers:

      New York:   Kenneth Brandt – Executive Vice President, President of North America   Julian Spence – Executive Vice President & Chief Risk Officer  

Paul McKeon – Senior Vice President & Chief Underwriting Officer for North America

  Paul Hogan – Vice President John Romano – Vice President Cathryn Thom – Vice President   Julie Hadley – Assistant Vice President Elida Nosenzo – Assistant Vice President  

Transatlantic Reinsurance Company is a subsidiary of Transatlantic Holdings, Inc., which is a leading international reinsurance organization headquartered in New York, with operations on six continents. Its subsidiaries, Transatlantic Reinsurance Company®, Trans Re Zurich Reinsurance Company Ltd. and Putnam Reinsurance Company, offer reinsurance capacity on both a treaty and facultative basis -- structuring programs for a full range of property and casualty products, with an emphasis on specialty risks.

Visit – www.transre.com – for additional information about the Company.