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Government Prepares Defense in AIG Bailout Trial

Oct 27 2014 // David Boies spent much of the past month interrogating the architects of the 2008 Wall Street bailout, making the case that the U.S. cheated American International Group Inc. shareholders of at least $25 billion partly for...

AIG Ex-CEO Liddy Defends Closeness with Government During Bailout

Oct 19 2014 // Former American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Edward Liddy defended his decision to work closely with the government at the time of the company’s 2008 bailout, saying he hoped to win concessions on...

AIG Ex-CEO Liddy Testifies on Role in Bailout

Oct 17 2014 // Former American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Edward Liddy testified he chose not to buck government overseers who selected him to run the bailed- out insurer.Developing trust with regulators was for the...

AIG Bailout Trial Probes Role of Ex-CEO Liddy

Oct 16 2014 // Former American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Edward Liddy will face a key question on the witness stand in a trial over claims shareholders were cheated of at least $25 billion in the insurer’s...

AIG’s Barone Joins Beazley’s Fidelity and Crime Insurance Unit

Oct 15 2014 // Beazley Plc hired Matt Barone from American International Group Inc., becoming the second insurer in a month to recruit from AIG to build groups that sell coverage protecting corporate clients against crimes.Barone joins...

AIG Bailout Trial Shifts to Former AIG Executives, Other Regulators

Oct 14 2014 // The trial over the American International Group Inc. bailout shifts this week from the architects of the 2008 rescue, who spent days testifying as to why they imposed the terms they did on the ailing insurer, to the...

Bernanke Denies Bailout Terms Were Meant to Punish AIG

Oct 12 2014 // Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said he wasn’t looking to punish American International Group Inc. for mismanagement when the board of governors authorized an emergency loan to the distressed insurer at...

P/C Insurers Rush to Meet Rising Demand for Cyber Insurance

Oct 9 2014 // Insurers flush with capital are rushing to grab part of an expanding cyber coverage market that’s been spurred on by high-profile hackings at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Home Depot Inc.Sales are set to double this...

Bernanke Defends AIG Bailout Terms; Judge Opens Fed’s ‘Doomsday Book’

Oct 9 2014 // Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke defended the sterner treatment of American International Group Inc. in the 2008 bailout compared with how investment banks were handled, saying the rescue of the insurer had a...

AIG Boosts Railroad Excess Liability Coverage to $1 Billion

Oct 9 2014 // American International Group Inc., the largest commercial insurer in the U.S. and Canada, introduced a policy to help railroads handle losses from catastrophic accidents as more crude oil is shipped by trains.The insurer...

Unfamiliar Fed Saw ‘Exceptional’ Risks in AIG Situation, Says Geithner

Oct 9 2014 // American International Group Inc.’s unique set of risks was seen by one of the primary orchestrators of its rescue as requiring tough conditions that included the government’s taking most of the insurer’s...

Was AIG’s High Bailout Loan Rate Forced by Regulators?

Oct 8 2014 // A “crazily high” interest rate levied on American International Group Inc.’s $85 billion bailout loan may have been forced on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York by other regulators, according to...

Geithner Asked Buffett for Opinion on AIG Before 2008 Bailout

Oct 8 2014 // Billionaire Warren Buffett said he gave an appraisal of American International Group Inc. to Timothy Geithner, then the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, just before it rescued AIG in 2008.Geithner asked...

Geithner Testifies He Was Responsible for AIG Loan Rate

Oct 8 2014 // Timothy Geithner backed away from two of his more provocative assessments of the 2008 bailout of American International Group Inc., in a day of courtroom testimony marked by careful answers and a lack of recollection about...

Ex-Treasurer Paulson Defends AIG’s Harsh Loan Terms

Oct 6 2014 // American International Group Inc. received harsher terms than other financial institutions in the 2008 financial crisis because regulators needed to send a message to markets that government help would cost them, Henry...

Geithner Expected to Testify on AIG Bailout Rate

Oct 5 2014 // Federal regulators cut a “loan sharky” interest rate on an $85 billion bailout loan to American International Group Inc. because it contributed to a debt service problem that threatened the insurer’s...

AIG Bailout Rushed Without Complete Documentation, Fed Lawyer Testifies

Oct 2 2014 // The Federal Reserve Bank of New York poured billions of dollars into rescuing American International Group Inc. in September 2008 without drawing up documents that would cement the government’s control of the giant...

Fed Counsel Grilled on AIG’s Bailout Terms vs. Banks’

Oct 1 2014 // The Federal Reserve Board of Governors set an interest rate for American International Group Inc.’s 2008 bailout loan that was meant to prevent shareholders from reaping a “windfall,” the Fed’s top...

Goldman, JPMorgan CEOs Pursued Private Rescue for AIG

Oct 1 2014 // The heads of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. told federal regulators days ahead of the 2008 government bailout of American International Group Inc. that they were putting together a private rescue of...

Federal Reserve Was Reluctant to Rescue AIG, Urged Private Sector Loan: Trial

Sep 30 2014 // The Federal Reserve Board of Governors didn’t want to bail out American International Group Inc. with an $85 billion loan, preferring that the insurer find a savior in the private marketplace, the Fed’s top...