Posted On: December 12, 2008, 7:50 am CST

Posted By: A REAL Underwriter

You're not much of an underwriter, thinking the soft market is over. The only one being stupid, as well as "plain and simple" is you. Don't blame superior underwriting skills and supeior products for your lack of production. Oh, and by the way, the money AIG recieved was for AIG Financial, not AIG Commercial Insurance. Do you know the difference? AIG CI STILL has more policy holder surplus than any/all of your companies put together. Oh, and boo hoo, AIG/Lex wrote an airport for 60% less than expiring with one other carrier, in lieu of the seven previous... Refer to my last sentence you morons. Hmm, Liberty Mutual is saying we're slashing prices, and oh, who else had something to say?? Oh, right Hank... Gee, wonder why?? How can any intelligent person read this article and not think "sour milk"?! If you don't understand the expression, I'd be happy to explain it to you. Also, I teach an underwriting class, although it's advanced, I believe I can start you off with an 'Underwriting for Dummies' book. When you're done with that, and work your way up to CPCU (shouldn't take YOU more than 15 years or so) let me know and I'll see if we can find you a place in class. I'll have a dunce cap waiting for you. Get over yourselves people! Put some thought into writing business, or come up with a product that sells itself so you don't have to think too hard! Stop blaming AIG for everything you can't do! Don't be upset they didn't want you as an employee! Why does NO ONE understand that the money AIG FINANCIAL secured from the government, will have a greater return to tax payers than your shrinking 401K and almost any otgher investment you've made in the past ten years?! AND, that pay-back, does not come from AIG Commercial Insurance! Possibly your minds can't understand this so I'll explain it easy for you... YOU better HOPE and PRAY AIG continues to operate business as usual, makes the necessary sales, etc., if you ever want to see that money paid back! Oh, by the way, AIG also employs 100,000+ worldwide, and guess what, as well as being good people who don't deserve your ridiculous comments and thankful they have jobs, they're TAX PAYERS TOO! You ALL talk about AIG as this big bad entity, not thinking about how it's those people that make up AIG, people who also struggle, people who have families to provide for, people thankful for the government stepping in to help, people that believe in their company and that work hard every single day in order to pay back the loan provided, people that don't deserve to feel they're personally being attacked when seeing ridiculous articles like this one, and then read a bunch of comments from other companies that just can't compete due to their lack of underwriting resrouces, and an overall lack of underwriting ability.

Go back to work now.