A settlement ends Hank Greenberg’s epic lawsuit
The arguments continue out of court
A SETTLEMENT to be signed in front of a New York judge as The Economist went to press on February 16th marked the end of years of attritional legal warfare. It was less clear who had won: the state of New York or Maurice (Hank) Greenberg, the now 91-year-old former chief executive of AIG, once the world’s largest insurer, but saved by a government bail-out in 2008.
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “See you outside”
Finance & economics
February 18th 2017- European financial centres after Brexit
- Sovereign-bond issuers shrug off downgrades
- A settlement ends Hank Greenberg’s epic lawsuit
- Spain’s banking clean-up
- Carbon tariffs and the EU’s steel industry
- Asia’s exports rebound
- A bullish case for copper
- A new paper finds China more unequal than France but less so than America
- The European Union’s delicate political economy
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