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Form 4 PLATINUM UNDERWRITERS For: Feb 14 Filed by: Decleir Allan Carl

February 17, 2015 10:27 AM EST
FORM 4 UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
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Check this box if no longer subject to Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5 obligations may continue. See Instruction 1(b).
1. Name and Address of Reporting Person *
Decleir Allan Carl

(Last) (First) (Middle)
PLATINUM UNDERWRITERS HOLDINGS, LTD.
WATERLOO HOUSE, 100 PITTS BAY ROAD

(Street)
PEMBROKE D0 HM 08

(City) (State) (Zip)
2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
PLATINUM UNDERWRITERS HOLDINGS LTD [ PTP ]
5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
Director 10% Owner
X Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
EVP & Chief Financial Officer
3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year)
02/14/2015
4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)
X Form filed by One Reporting Person
Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3) 2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) 2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) 3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) 4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) 5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4) 6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) 7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
Code V Amount (A) or (D) Price
Common Shares 02/14/2015   A   11,666 (1) A $ 0 66,370 D  
Common Shares 02/16/2015   M   1,145 A $ 0 67,515 D  
Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3) 2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security 3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) 3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) 4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) 5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) 6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year) 7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4) 8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5) 9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4) 10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) 11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
Code V (A) (D) Date Exercisable Expiration Date Title Amount or Number of Shares
Share units (2) 02/16/2015   M     1,145   (3)   (3) Common Shares (3) 1,145 $ 0 0 D  
Explanation of Responses:
1. These common shares represent the payment of an award granted on February 14, 2012 under the Amended and Restated Executive Incentive Plan of Platinum Underwriters Holdings, Ltd. (the "Company") for the 2012-2014 performance cycle.
2. 1-for-1
3. These share units were granted on February 16, 2011 under the Company's 2010 Share Incentive Plan. On February 16, 2015, the final quarter of these shares vested and the Company issued to the reporting person one Common Share for each vested share unit.
/s/ Molly E. Gardner Attorney-in-Fact 02/17/2015
** Signature of Reporting Person Date
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POWER OF ATTORNEY 

	Know all by these presents, that the undersigned's hereby constitutes and
appoints Michael E. Lombadozzi, Christina M. Parker and Molly E. Gardner signing
singly, the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to: 

(1)	execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity
as an officer and/or director fo Platinum Underwriters Holdings, Ltd. or one of
its subsidiaries (the "Company"), Form ID and Forms 3, 4, and 5 (including any
amendments thereto) in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange
ACt of 1934 and the rules thereunder; 

(2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which
may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form ID, 3, 4, or
5, complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file
such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any
stock exchange or similar authority; and

(3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to,
in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being
understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the
undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall
contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such
attorney-in-fact's discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to such attorney-in-fact full power and authority
to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary,
or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein
granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could
do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such
attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein
granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in
serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming,
nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply
with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the
undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company,
unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the
foregoing attorney-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this 27th day of April, 2011.


/s/ Allan C. Decleir

Allan C. Decleir

		
 



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