Articles by Suzanne Barlyn

Advisory Firms Urge ‘No’ Vote on AIG Execs’ Pay Packages

American International Group Inc. shareholders should vote against compensation packages for top executives at the insurer’s annual meeting next week, according to two advisory firms that hold sway over investor votes. Institutional Shareholder Services Inc and Glass Lewis & Co, …

AIG CEO Duperreault Was Paid $20.9 Million in 2018, Half of 2017 Compensation

Insurer American International Group Inc. said on Tuesday it paid Chief Executive Officer Brian Duperreault $20.9 million in 2018 while also outlining a series of reforms to its pay practices in the face of shareholder criticism. The pay, for Duperreault’s …

Insurers Face Big Claims from Victims’ Families After Boeing 737 MAX Crash: Sources

Boeing Co.’s insurers face big claims from families of the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines crash, coming less than six months after the crash of the same type of Boeing aircraft in Indonesia, insurance and aviation sources said. An Ethiopian …

Industry Eyes Renewal of U.S. Terror Reinsurance and Alternatives Should Congress Fail

U.S. insurers are pushing for the extension of a federal terrorism risk insurance program, hoping to fend off a possible gap that would leave their clients scrambling for alternate coverage. The program, which expires at the end of 2020, was …

AIG Reports Q4 Loss on Catastrophes, Lower Investment Returns

American International Group Inc. on Wednesday reported a quarterly loss as the insurer was hit with catastrophe losses and made a lower return on investments in a volatile market. Excluding realized investment gains and losses and some other items, AIG …

Senior Care Facilities and Their Insurers Try to Keep Up with Aging America’s Falls

Last March, a 103-year-old resident of a Sunrise Senior Living facility in Willowbrook, Illinois, went on a field trip to the movies. Ruth Smith, who used a walker, fell down two concrete steps in the theater and died about six …

SEC Wants More Details from AIG on Berkshire Reinsurance

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission told American International Group Inc. to improve disclosures about its use of reinsurance to mitigate losses in its property and casualty unit, according to correspondence made public on Friday. After reviewing AIG’s 2017 annual …

AIG Winds Down Iran Business It Acquired Along With Validus

American International Group Inc. is exiting business activities in Iran that came with a subsidiary it acquired and which now butt up against the sanctions against Iran that have been reimposed by the Trump administration, according to a filing. Validus …

John Hancock Will Only Sell Interactive Life Insurance with Fitness Data Tracking

John Hancock, one of the oldest and largest North American life insurers, will stop underwriting traditional life insurance and instead sell only interactive policies that track fitness and health data through wearable devices and smartphones, the company said on Wednesday. …

CEO Duperreault Bets on Underwriting Culture, Greenberg Ways in Restoring AIG to Greatness

Brian Duperreault, who rejoined American International Group Inc. as chief executive officer last year to turn the company around, remembers another era when the insurer was trying to blaze a trail toward greatness. In 1973, Duperreault arrived at AIG’s old …