Latest AIG Headlines
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Talent War Continues: XL Hires AIG’s Miller to Oversee Global P/C Claims
Nov 4 2013 // XL Group Plc, the insurer led by Chief Executive Officer Mike McGavick, hired David Miller as senior vice president and head of claims for international property/casualty coverage. Miller joins from American International...
Judge Dismisses Suit Against Bank of America For Not Disclosing AIG Claims
Nov 4 2013 // Bank of America Corp. has won the dismissal of an unusual lawsuit in which shareholders accused it of concealing a $10 billion fraud case brought by American International Group Inc. In a decision made public on Monday,...
AIG’s Q3 Profit Advances 17% to $2.17B; Property/Casualty Sales Decline
Nov 1 2013 // American International Group Inc., the insurer that repaid a U.S. rescue last year, said third- quarter profit climbed 17 percent as underwriting margins improved at the property-casualty business. Net income rose to $2.17...
CGSC Names AIG Ex-CEO Sullivan as Non-Executive Chairman for U.S.
Oct 29 2013 // Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford (CGSC), a global wholesale and reinsurance broking group, has appointed Martin Sullivan as non-executive chairman of CGSC Delaware, the main board for the group’s North American...
AIG Hires XL Group’s Maag as CEO of Europe, Middle East
Oct 25 2013 // American International Group Inc. hired Seraina Maag from XL Group Plc to run the Europe, Middle East and Africa region as Chief Executive Officer Robert Benmosche reshapes the insurer’s leadership. Maag, 45, will be...
Geithner Rejects Greenberg Bid for Draft of Book on AIG Bailout
Oct 17 2013 // Former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner joined the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in declining to give drafts of a book he’s writing to Maurice “Hank” Greenberg for Greenberg’s lawsuit...
Bernanke Excused from Testifying in Greenberg’s Suit Over AIG Bailout for Now
Oct 16 2013 // Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke does not have to testify in the multibillion-dollar lawsuit by the former chief of American International Group Inc. against the United States over the insurer’s 2008 bailout, a...
AIG Launches Product Recall Estimate Service, Raises Contaminated Product Limits
Oct 16 2013 // In response to the growing financial impact and frequency of product recalls for food and beverage manufacturers, distributors and importers in the U.S. and Europe, American International Group (AIG) today launched NOVI, a...
Judge Temporarily Halts New York AG Suit Against Greenberg
Oct 11 2013 // Former American International Group (AIG) Chief Executive Maurice “Hank” Greenberg on Thursday won a short reprieve from New York’s case accusing him of orchestrating sham transactions at AIG. State...
AIG Sued by Small Businesses Over Workers’ Compensation Reporting
Oct 10 2013 // Class action lawsuits in federal courts on both coasts have been initiated on behalf of small businesses in California, New York and New Jersey against American International Group (AIG) over workers’ compensation...
Insurers’ Private Firefighters Give Wealthy Homeowners Extra Protection
Sep 30 2013 // Bill Potter wasn’t eager to abandon his high-end house last month during evacuations forced by a massive Idaho wildfire, but he felt reassured when his insurance company sent a team to protect his home near the...
Tech Firm Trōv Promises to Reinvent ‘Insurance to Value’ for P/C Industry
Sep 25 2013 // A high tech start-up is promising to raise the standard for determining “insurance to value” by giving property/casualty insurance companies and brokers access to real-time data on their upscale insureds’...
AIG, Brookfield End Litigation Over Financial Crisis
Sep 24 2013 // American International Group Inc. and Brookfield Asset Management Inc. agreed to end a 2009 lawsuit in which Brookfield sought a judge’s ruling that the insurer’s collapse triggered default provisions in...
MetLife Says Regulators May Miss Key Insurer Risks with Focus on Bank Rules
Sep 19 2013 // Federal regulators may miss important threats to the financial stability of U.S. insurers by focusing on bank risks, MetLife Inc. Chief Financial Officer John Hele said. “Bank rules overlook key insurance...
AIG, Lincoln Among Insurers Said Pushed by N.Y. on Universal Life Product Reserves
Sep 12 2013 // New York State’s financial-services regulator is pressing insurers including American International Group Inc., Lincoln National Corp. and Principal Financial Group Inc. to boost reserves at units in the state, a...
AIG Not Renewing Reinsurance with Rival Berkshire: Source
Sep 11 2013 // American International Group Inc. has decided against signing new reinsurance contracts with Berkshire Hathaway Inc. after Warren Buffett’s company started a commercial insurer competing against AIG, according to a...
People – East
Sep 9 2013 // N.Y.-based private equity firm KKR & Co. hired former Willis Group Holdings CEO Joseph Plumeri as a senior adviser. In his new role, Plumeri will help find and evaluate potential investments and work with KKR’s...
People – Southeast
Sep 9 2013 // Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon, recently announced the addition of Christopher Cote as senior vice president in the Charlotte, N.C., office. In his new role, Cote will be responsible for...
AIG Names Coory Vice President for Corporate Marketing for Asia Pacific
Aug 28 2013 // American International Group Inc. has appointed Damian Coory to the newly created role of vice president for Corporate Marketing and Communications for Asia Pacific. Coory will report to Christina Pretto, senior vice...
AIG to Get $905 Million From Brookfield to End Rate-Swap Dispute
Aug 26 2013 // American International Group Inc., the insurer that repaid a U.S. rescue last year, agreed to accept $905 million from Brookfield Asset Management Inc. to resolve a dispute tied to interest-rate swaps. Brookfield,...
