A 12-year fight

Friday night (10 February) brought a spectacular end to probably
the most important insurance dispute of a generation as New
York's Attorney General (AG) announced that former AIG boss
Maurice "Hank" Greenberg had admitted to involvement in
two fraudulent transactions during his decades-long tenure.
After a prosecution that had lasted almost 12 years, the
statement from Eric Schneiderman initially appeared to end the war
of words between his office and Greenberg. But it immediately
prompted the