Opinion: AIG's contagious malaise

In its pre-financial crisis days of dominance, it could
justifiably have been said that if AIG sneezed, the rest of the US
commercial insurance sector would catch a cold.
But such has been the insurer's transformation in recent
years that it is difficult to diagnose whether its reserving ills
are an isolated case or symptomatic of a virus that could spread
across the industry.
In a bid to restore its underwriting credibility after what some
view as years of systematic...