reinsurance fraud News

Reinsurance Fraud Triggers Stock Plunge in Lehman-Founded Hungarian Insurer

Hungarian insurer Cig Pannonia Nyrt., which lists Lehman Brothers as one of its founders, lost as much as a quarter of its value in two days after Italian reinsurance contracts at one of its units turned out to be counterfeit. …

Ex-General Re, AIG Execs May Settle Criminal Case

Four former executives at Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s General Re Corp. and one at American International Group Inc. are in talks to settle a long-running criminal case accusing them of engineering a reinsurance transaction that fraudulently boosted AIG’s loss reserves. The …

Judge: New York AG Must Decide on Revealing Spitzer’s Emails on AIG

New York’s Attorney General must review his predecessor’s private emails relating to a probe of American International Group Inc. and decide whether to release them to the public, a state judge has ruled. The office of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman …

AIG Ex-CEO Greenberg Fights Ruling on Reinsurance Fraud Charges

Former American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Maurice “Hank” Greenberg said New York’s attorney general should be barred from invoking a 91-year-old state law in a fraud case over two suspect reinsurance transactions. Greenberg and co-defendant Howard Smith, AIG’s former …