Via: Los Angeles Times:
The company's situation reflects problems throughout the life insurance industry as investments suffer. Further strain could bring about a second financial crisis.
When insurance giant American International Group Inc. imploded last fall, the firm's problems were quickly blamed not on its core insurance business but on an obscure operation that traded exotic mortgage securities.
But as the economic crisis deepens, it has become clear that AIG's problems extend across most of its business lines, including its massive life insurance and retirement services operations, which reported a staggering $18-billion quarterly loss this month.
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