Latest Gen Re Headlines
All the headlines from our Gen Re Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Undercover on Underwriting: Spitzer Spills AIG’s Secrets in Civil Complaint
Jun 6 2005 // AG Targets Ex-Execs Greenberg and Smith; AIG Restates Financials; Is Settlement Next? From the 1980s until recently, insurance giant American International Group and its top executives “routinely engaged in...
Undercover on Underwriting: Spitzer Spills AIG’s Secrets in Civil Complaint
Jun 6 2005 // AG Targets Ex-Execs Greenberg and Smith; AIG Restates Financials; Is Settlement Next? – Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, AIG CEO, 1992 From the 1980s until recently, insurance giant American International Group...
General Re, Faraday Execs Placed on Leave Over Reinsurance Probe
May 17 2005 // Two insurance employees will be placed on paid leave as federal officials conduct probes into insurance practices, billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said. In a filing last Friday with the...
Former General Re Execs Reportedly Targeted in SEC Probe
May 16 2005 // The Securities and Exchange Commission is planning to file civil fraud charges against a former executive of General Reinsurance Corp., one of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s insurance companies, according to a published...
Finite Reinsurance Probes Appear Infinite
May 9 2005 // Investigators’ interest in finite reinsurance transactions goes well beyond the five-year old agreement between American International Group and Berkshire Hathaway’s General Re that has been targeted by New...
Buffett Expresses Confidence in AIG
May 2 2005 // Billionaire investor Warren Buffett and his right hand man, Charlie Munger, expressed confidence in embattled New York insurance company American International Group Inc. as they addressed Berkshire Hathaway Inc....
Fitch Moves Berkshire Hathaway’s Outlook to Negative
Apr 19 2005 // Fitch Ratings has revised the Rating Outlook to Negative from Stable on the ‘AAA’ long-term issuer and unsecured senior debt ratings of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (Berkshire) and its wholly-owned subsidiary GEICO...
NO CRIMINAL CHARGES LIKELY AGAINST AIG:
Apr 18 2005 // New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer reassured the business world and those affiliated with American International Group that criminal charges are not likely to flow from his department’s continuing investigations...
Australian Regulators Investigating Gen Re Contracts
Apr 15 2005 // The waters of the finite reinsurance ocean continue to roil, as the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) announced that it has launched an investigation into “certain reinsurance practices”...
Former CEO Greenberg Transferred $2 Billion in AIG Shares to Wife Just Days Before Quitting Insurer
Apr 14 2005 // Three days before he resigned as head of American International Group Inc., Maurice ‘”Hank” Greenberg gave his wife 41.4 million of his shares in the insurance company, according to a regulatory...
Buffett Talks, Greenberg Mum as Investigators Continue Probe of AIG
Apr 12 2005 // On the day when billionaire investor Warren Buffett was interviewed by investigators and said he told them everything he knew, Maurice Greenberg, former chairman of American International Group, revealed that he would not...
Spitzer Claims ‘Powerful’ Evidence Against AIG; Stresses Today’s Witness Buffett Not Subject of Probes
Apr 10 2005 // New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said he disagrees with former CEO Maurice Greenberg’s attorney that accounting mistakes at American International Group were insignificant in their impact. Spitzer also...
AIG Again Delays Filing of 10-K Annual Report; Discloses Details About Gen Re, Offshore, Starr Dealings
Mar 30 2005 // American International Group, Inc. announced that the filing of its 2004 Form 10-K will be delayed beyond the March 31, 2005 extended due date in order to provide AIG, its board of directors and its new management more...
Berkshire Hathaway’s Buffett Responds to Press Reports Over General Re and Other Probes
Mar 30 2005 // Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chief Executive Officer Warren Buffett has acknowledged that he will voluntarily speak with investigators next month while also moving to correct several press reports concerning the ongoing...
GENERAL RE UNDER SCRUTINY:
Mar 21 2005 // General Reinsurance, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., has been subpoenaed in an investigation of Reciprocal of America, a former Virginia-based professional liability insurer whose collapse is considered one of the...
General Re Under Scrutiny for Reinsurance Dealings with Failed Virginia Liability Reciprocal
Mar 2 2005 // General Reinsurance, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., has been subpoenaed in an investigation of Reciprocal of America, a former Virginia-based professional liability insurer whose collapse is considered one of the...
General Re Receives Subpoena from N.Y. AG
Jan 7 2005 // General Re Corporation, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., announced the company has received a subpoena from the New York State Attorney General for documents and information relating to...
SEC Seeks Gen Re Records on Finite Insurance
Dec 31 2004 // General Re Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., acknowledged that it has received a request from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission to provide documentation and information...
Gen Re Announces Richter to Retire as Genesis Chairman, CEO; General Star’s Roberts to Head Combined Group
Jul 8 2004 // General Re Corporation, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., announced that Harry L. Richter, Chairman, President and CEO of its Genesis operation, which underwrites specialized excess and large deductible insurance...
General Re Group Affirmed
Jul 5 2004 // A.M. Best Co. affirmed the financial strength ratings of “A++” (superior) of the General Re Group. The rating applies to General Reinsurance Corporation of Delaware and its core property/casualty and life...
