February 18, 2021
American International Group Inc. said on Wednesday it is hiking some commercial insurance rates by as much as 45%, a trend it sees persisting in 2021, as the company prepares to install Peter Zaffino as its new chief executive on …
October 26, 2020
American International Group has disclosed significant leadership changes as well as plans to separate its Life & Retirement business into an independent company. Peter Zaffino, currently AIG’s president and chief operating officer, will become its next CEO as of March …
August 14, 2018
Activist investor Carl Icahn has dropped his fight to block Cigna Corp.’s $54 billion acquisition of Express Scripts Holding Co. after two prominent shareholder advisory firms came out in support of the deal. Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. and Glass Lewis …
August 7, 2018
Activist investor Carl Icahn said shareholders in Cigna Corp. should vote against the $54 billion takeover of pharmacy-benefits firm Express Scripts Holding Co. because the health insurer is “dramatically overpaying.” “Cigna management is offering to pay an all-time high price …
June 21, 2018
Insurer AmTrust Financial Services said that AmTrust stockholders have approved a deal for it to become a private entity, a deal that values it at $2.95 billion and was negotiated after activist investor Carl Icahn opposed a previous proposal. The …
June 7, 2018
U.S. insurer AmTrust Financial Services Inc. on Thursday agreed to be acquired by a group of investors for a sweetened $2.95 billion deal that also helped secure the support of dissenting shareholder Carl Icahn. Evergreen Parent, an entity formed by …
May 21, 2018
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn sued the directors of AmTrust Financial Services Inc., Chief Executive Officer Barry Zyskind and the family that controls the insurer to challenge a plan to take the insurer private, arguing it will shortchange investors. Icahn, who …
May 21, 2018
The Prague-based investment firm Arca Capital said it plans to work with activist investor Carl Icahn and other minority shareholders to prevent a proposed privatization of AmTrust Financial Services Inc. Arca Capital owns approximately 2.4 percent of outstanding shares of …
May 17, 2018
AmTrust Financial Services Inc. jumped almost 12 percent in late trading Thursday after billionaire Carl Icahn disclosed a stake in the company and said he planned to oppose its plans to go private. “I am strongly against the proposed going-private …
December 22, 2016
Billionaire Carl Icahn will advise Donald Trump on rescinding what the activist investor called “excessive regulation” on U.S. businesses, the president-elect’s transition team announced on Wednesday. Icahn will serve as a special adviser, not a federal employee, and he will …