AIG Profit Declines 27% on Property-Casualty Claims Costs

Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

American International Group Inc., the largest commercial insurer in the U.S. and Canada, said first-quarter profit fell 27 percent as claims costs climbed at the property-casualty business. AIG slipped in New York trading.

Net income declined to $1.61 billion, or $1.09 a share, from $2.21 billion, or $1.49, a year earlier, New York-based AIG said yesterdayBloomberg Terminal. Operating profit fell 26 percent to $1.16 billion at the property-casualty business.