AIG Insurance New Zealand Limited (Company) is a wholly owned subsidiary of American International Group, Inc. (AIG), headquartered in New York.
The AIG group has operated in the general insurance business in New Zealand since 1970. Until 2011 the business was a branch of a member of the AIG group based in the USA. On 1 December 2011 the branch business was transferred to the Company and the Company became the first licensed insurer under the Insurance (Prudential Supervision) Act 2010 (IPSA). With the issue of the licence the Company became subject to the IPSA regulatory regime administered by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ).
