Latest AIG Headlines
All the headlines from our AIG Topic Page, ordered by recency.
BHSI Taps Executives from AIG and AXA XL as Claims & Product Line Leaders in France
Sep 19 2019 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) announced it has expanded its leadership team in France, naming Katell Pouliquen as head of Claims, Louis du Ché as head of Property and Ludovic Ruiller as head of...
Marsh Taps AIG’s Manson, Aon’s Mills for U.K. Mgmt Liability, Wholesale Placement Roles
Sep 17 2019 // Marsh, the insurance broker and risk adviser, announced the appointments of Stephanie Pestorich Manson as chief client officer for Management Liability and head of Directors’ & Officers’ (D&O) Product...
Hardening Markets, Social Inflation, E&S Business: Berkley, AIG Execs Face Analysts
Sep 13 2019 // The commercial general liability line will be the next property/casualty line to harden, the chief executive of W.R. Berkley Corp. predicted at an industry conference. Speaking at the Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Insurance...
Marsh’s Ellis Joins AIG to Head Retail Property
Sep 4 2019 // American International Group has appointed Duncan Ellis as head of Retail Property, North America General Insurance. The company said Ellis will lead General Insurance’s North American Retail Property business and...
AIG’s Su Joins AXA XL as Underwriting Lead for Structured Risk Solutions
Sep 4 2019 // AXA XL, the property/casualty and specialty risk division of AXA, has named Austin Su as U.S. Underwriting Lead of its Structured Risk Solutions (SRS) business. Based in New York, Su joins SRS’ growing global...
People & Places
Sep 2 2019 // National Reinsurance broker BMS Group has named Pete Chandler as president of its U.S. reinsurance operations. Chandler joins from JLT Re, where he was deputy CEO of the U.S. reinsurance broking arm of the group. He joined...
How Insurers Help Design High-End Homes That Mitigate Disaster Risk
Aug 30 2019 // Bruce Gendelman wanted a mountainside retreat when he bought 12 acres in Aspen, Colorado. But forest fires that have torched nearby land in recent years left him concerned. So Gendelman, who runs an insurance brokerage,...
Liberty Specialty Markets Taps Brodu from AIG as Head of Financial Lines, France
Aug 29 2019 // Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, announced the appointment of Antoine Brodu as head of Financial Lines, France, with immediate effect. Brodu joins LSM from AIG France, where he spent...
Former AIG, Aon Exec Teegarden Joins Lockton in Atlanta
Aug 26 2019 // Lockton has added Andrew Teegarden as senior vice president, client executive. In this role, he will work with Neil Metzheiser, executive vice president, and Lockton’s service teams to further enhance Lockton’s...
AIG Names Munich Re’s Olsen as General Insurance Unit’s Chief Actuary
Aug 16 2019 // American International Group announced that Richard Olsen will join the company as chief actuary, General Insurance, effective immediately. Olsen will lead the General Insurance global actuarial organization, with...
AIG CEO Duperreault ‘Encouraged’ by Hardening Market, Plans Operational Overhaul
Aug 13 2019 // AIG President and CEO Brian Duperreault said that the evolving, hardening market is sustainable and dovetailing nicely with the insurer’s ongoing efforts to shed excessively risky business. He also announced that AIG...
AIG’s P/C Business Delivers on CEO’s Underwriting Promise
Aug 8 2019 // American International Group (AIG) President and CEO Brian Duperreault has insisted that the insurer’s General Insurance unit will produce an underwriting profit for all of 2019, after a decade of losses. His promise...
AIG Creates Sustainability Post; Names Waldner as Chief Officer
Jul 24 2019 // American International Group said it has created a position of chief sustainability officer to lead the development and implementation of a company-wide sustainability strategy and appointed Jennifer Waldner to fill the...
AIG Names Ling Chief Human Resources Officer
Jul 22 2019 // American International Group has named Karen L. Ling as executive vice president, chief human resources officer. Ling will lead AIG’s global human resources department and be responsible for aligning AIG’s...
AIG Names Accenture’s Parker as Information Security Deputy Chief
Jul 15 2019 // American International Group reported that Tom Parker is joining the company as deputy chief Information Security officer. Parker will work with Rich Baich, AIG’s chief Information Security officer, on global...
Brit Global Adds AIG, NAS Cyber Specialists to U.S. Cyber & Technology Practice
Jul 8 2019 // James Patterson and Ryan Mimmo have been appointed vice presidents of Cyber & Technology for Brit Global Specialty USA. They are based in San Francisco and New York, respectively, and are responsible for underwriting...
Berkley Taps AIG’s Fenster to Lead New Berkley Prime Transportation Division
Jul 1 2019 // W.R. Berkley Corp. has formed Berkley Prime Transportation, which will focus on providing primary commercial transportation insurance products countrywide for standard and preferred risks. The new division will focus on...
People
Jul 1 2019 // National American International Group said Kathleen Zortman will join the company as president and CEO of Private Client Group, General Insurance. In this new role, Zortman will lead AIG’s global high net worth...
TATA Group’s Fitzsimons Joins AIG as Shared Services Global Chief
Jun 28 2019 // American International Group announced that Shane Fitzsimons is joining the company as global head of Shared Services. This is a newly created role at AIG that establishes a single point of accountability for key...
CNA’s Mizzi Joins AIG’s Blackboard Insurance as Head of Underwriting
Jun 27 2019 // Blackboard Insurance, an American International Group company, announced that John Mizzi will join the team as head of Growth and Underwriting. Mizzi will lead the underwriting team as Blackboard expands its use of data,...
