Latest AIG Headlines
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AIG Downplays $5B Write-Down; Rating Agencies, Wall Street Concerned
Feb 12 2008 // While American International Group Inc. sought to downplay its miscalculation of losses on a derivatives portfolio as not “material to the company,” Wall Street was abuzz with speculation over whether the...
S&P Revises Outlook on AIG
Feb 12 2008 // American International Group Inc. may be quite sanguine about its financial outlook (See related article), but Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services isn’t quite as confident. S&P announced that it has...
Jurors to Begin Deliberations on Gen Re-AIG Reinsurance Case This Week
Feb 11 2008 // After a month of testimony, jurors in Hartford are expected to begin deliberating this week over the fate of former executives of General Re Corp., a reinsurance company owned by Berkshire Hathaway, without hearing from...
AIG Shares Fall as Insurer Reports Internal Audit Weakness
Feb 11 2008 // Giant international insurer American International Group Inc. saw its shares fall 11 percent today on its acknowledgement that it may have incorrectly valued the effect of the ongoing credit crisis in previous...
TheStreet.Com’s Jim Cramer: AIG Got Cocky, Got Caught
Feb 11 2008 // The insurer’s auditing probe is a result of judgments on data that could not be modeled, says Jim Cramer of www.thestreet.com in this video interview on Wall Street...
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Feb 10 2008 // Susan Doyle has been named president and COO of Wisconsin-based Wausau Insurance, part of the commercial markets business unit of the Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group. Doyle replaces Mark Fiebrink, who retired. Doyle...
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Feb 10 2008 // Former Ace Ltd. CEO and Chairman Brian Duperreault has stepped down from the Bermuda-based insurer to assume to role of president and CEO of Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. Duperreault replaces Michael Cherkasky, who...
AIG Reaches $12.5M Settlment With States Over Bid-Rigging Allegations
Feb 10 2008 // American International Group, Inc. (AIG) has reached settlements with Florida, West Virginia, seven other states and the District of Columbia relating to their investigations into alleged bid-rigging and price-fixing and...
AIG to Pay $12.5M in Settlement with States Over Bid-Rigging Allegations
Feb 10 2008 // American International Group Inc. (AIG) confirmed in late January that it reached settlements with nine states and the District of Columbia relating to their investigations into alleged bid-rigging and price-fixing, and...
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Feb 10 2008 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation hired Michael Page as director of safety and loss prevention. Page previously was director of loss prevention services for Workforce Safety and Insurance in North Dakota...
AIG to Pay $12.5M in Settlement with States Over Bid-Rigging Allegations
Feb 10 2008 // American International Group Inc. (AIG) confirmed in late January that it had reached settlements with nine states and the District of Columbia relating to their investigations into alleged bid-rigging and price-fixing and...
Trial Witness Says Buffett Was Told of General Re-AIG Deal
Feb 7 2008 // A former top executive for General Reinsurance Corp. e-mailed billionaire investor Warren Buffett in 2000 about a reinsurance transaction with American International Group Inc. that triggered a criminal trial, a government...
ACE’s Duperreault Named CEO of Marsh & McLennan
Jan 30 2008 // Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (MMC) has appointed Brian Duperreault, who helped grow Bermuda-based ACE Limited, as president and chief executive officer of MMC, effective immediately. He replaces Michael Cherkasky,...
AIG Introduces Package Policy for Management, Professional Liability
Jan 29 2008 // AIG Executive LiabilitySM Announces AIG PrivateEdge PlusSM Modular Package of Seven Coverages Available for All Private Companies AIG Executive Liability, a division of the property-casualty insurance subsidiaries of...
AIG Pays $12.5M to Settle with States Over Bid-Rigging Allegations
Jan 29 2008 // American International Group, Inc. (AIG) confirmed today that it has reached settlements with nine states and the District of Columbia relating to their investigations into alleged bid-rigging and price-fixing and...
AIG to Pay $42.5M to Cleanup Pollution Left by Bankrupt Insured
Jan 27 2008 // American International Specialty Lines Insurance Co. Inc. (AISLIC) has agreed to pay $42.5 million to clean up contamination at four industrial facilities run by a bankrupt insured in a suit in which the Department of...
AIG to Pay $42.5 Million to Cleanup After Failed Company
Jan 27 2008 // The American International Specialty Lines Insurance Co. Inc. (AISLIC) has agreed to pay $42.5 million to clean up contamination at four industrial facilities run by a bankrupt insured in a suit in which the Department of...
AIG Enhances Corporate Counsel Policy
Jan 23 2008 // The heightened risk of being named in securities litigation has lead corporate counsel to face increasing liability exposures from a variety of claimants. These liabilities may result from legal services provided on behalf...
Former Hilton CEO Joins AIG’s Board
Jan 17 2008 // Stephen F. Bollenbach, former CEO of Hilton Hotels Corp., has been elected to the board of directors of American International Group. Bollenbach, 65, has also served as a CFO of the Walt Disney Co. and CEO of Host Marriott...
Fitch Affirms AIG, Subs ‘AA’ Ratings
Jan 16 2008 // Fitch Ratings has affirmed American International Group’s Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at ‘AA’ and affirmed its ratings on all of AIG’s insurance subsidiaries at the same level. The rating outlook is...
