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Category: AIG Bail Out 2008 | Contemporaneous Observations
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A big thanks goes out to Livingston County, New York attorney Kevin Van Allen continuing to post a June 6, 2013 blog “Oh No! My Structured Settlement is With AIG!” leaving good opportunity for responsive commentary.
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With respect to AIG structured settlements, time has shown that the only financial losers were those who sold their structured settlement payment rights at a discount, succumbing to fearmongering vulture-like behavior of certain structured settlement purchasers in 2008-2009
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By the end of 2012, billions of bailout dollars had been paid back to the government and the AIG brand is back. Here is a video released by AIG in conjunction with the announcement about the return to the AIG brand
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September 9, 2012 The United States Treasury will sell $18 billion of AIG stock and thereby reduce its stake in the insurer to less than 50%. In early 2011 the stake was as high as 92%.
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The AIG nationalization, initially criticized as a significant failure, is now considered a success, according to a Washington Post opinion piece by Charles Lane. The government may soon become a minority shareholder. The article is relevant for those with concerns about AIG-related structured settlements and insurance companies.
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AIG’s operating companies were re-branded in 2009, but the AIG brand is back, with good reason- The good will that 90 years in business brings you and crisis management. Time will tell if it proves to be as legendary as JNJ’s Tylenol story, but it will be a Business School case study for many years…
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The International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) said September 30th that they still haven’t completed their study of which insurance companies are global systemically important financial institutions (G-SIFIs) and they cannot decide whether they should face extra capital rules until that work is complete.
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The Executive Life Insurance Company of NY structured settlement annuitant described her fruitless efforts to contact the Life Insurance Guaranty Corporation of New York (“LIGCNY”) for info. While not good, it does not mean that one should act prematurely, and perhaps foolishly, without all the info..
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There has been alot of misinformation out there and to the extent it has affected structured settlement sales it needs to be corrected. If you are in the structured settlement industry , or an attorney, or a plaintiff in a personal injury case reading this a post I suggest you read the article and watch…