In the largest merger of U.S. insurance companies ever, American International Group closed its acquisition of Houston-based American General Corp. today. The $23 billion takeover follows Tuesday's ...

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American General Corp., a Houston company whose life insurance operations are based here, is now a unit of global insurer American International Group. New York-based AIG announced its intention to ...

Benjamin N. "Woody" Woodson, longtime chief operating officer of American General and known in the industry as "Mr. Life Insurance," died Tuesday evening at a Houston care center. He was 93. Born in ...