A judge in an AIG civil trial involving Hank Greenberg, the insurer’s former CEO, imposed strict curbs on the scope of the federal court hearing on Monday. The public bail-out of AIG and the furore over its controversial bonuses cannot be discussed in a trial over a $4.3bn lawsuit involving Greenberg; neither can investigations into accounting practices that led to the departure of Greenberg from AIG in 2005, said judge Jed Rakoff.
