NY officials to testify on bond insurers
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New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and New  York State Insurance Superintendent Eric Dinallo will testify  Thursday at a House Financial Services subcommittee hearing on  bond insurer problems, the panel said on Wednesday.
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At least two more states are investigating charges of bid-rigging in the US insurance industry brought by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer last week.
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American International Group Inc., the  world's largest insurer by market value, said Monday it  received subpoenas from New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer  and the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding products  that might help companies smooth earnings or hide losses.
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The government said on Thursday it is likely to call the personal physician of baseball home run king Barry Bonds to testify in his trial on charges of lying about steroid use.
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Bond insurers may be split into two businesses -- one to guarantee municipal bonds and the other to back riskier securities linked to troubled mortgages -- in what would be the biggest overhaul of the industry since it was created almost four decades ago.
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MBIA Inc., a large U.S. bond insurer,  said on Thursday it received subpoenas from the U.S. Securities  and Exchange Commission and New York Attorney General Eliot  Spitzer, seeking information about so-called non-traditional or  loss-mitigation insurance products.
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New York state officials say they expect two insurance company executives to plead guilty in a corruption probe into bid-rigging in the insurance brokerage industry.
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MBIA Inc  plans to urge lawmakers and regulators to curtail what the bond insurer calls "the unscrupulous and dangerous market manipulation activities of short sellers," according to a copy of written testimony obtained by Reuters.
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Investors are wary of insurance guarantees for some bonds issued by cities to fund capital projects.
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The bond insurer problem must be  fixed, or else it could become a "financial tsunami" that  wreaks havoc on the broader economy, New York Governor Eliot  Spitzer is due to tell the U.S. Congress on Thursday.
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New York State&#39;s attorney general is investigating whether major insurance companies are paying kickbacks to agents and brokers, USA Today reported Monday.
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New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer may tell a US Senate subcommittee today that federal oversight of the insurance industry is inevitable after his allegations of price manipulation and kickbacks.
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State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer told a subcommittee of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee yesterday that he expects more criminal pleas in connection with his investigation into price collusion and conflicts of interest in the insurance
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BALCO founder Victor Conte and Barry Bonds' personal trainer, Greg Anderson, are expected in court to determine whether they can keep evidence prosecutors turned over to them from the government's investigation of steroids in sports.
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Barry Bonds' attorney is asking federal authorities to investigate who told a newspaper that the Giants forwarded the baseball star's medical records to a grand jury investigating him for perjury and tax evasion.
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The proposal to break-up the businesses of bond insurers into two separate segments, with one covering "good" municipal debt and the other covering "bad" structured finance debt, may lead to years of litigation, said Bank of America analysts, in a note to clients, late last week.
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Federal involvement may be necessary to set basic standards of accountability in the insurance industry, New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer told US lawmakers Tuesday.