(Bloomberg) — Steve Miller called him tenacious. Steve Kandarian remembered his fighting spirit.
As Maurice "Hank" Greenberg put it, Robert Benmosche, who died Friday at 70 after leading two of the biggest U.S. insurers, "was a fighter."
"If he had a fight, he'd fight," Greenberg, who was chief executive officer of American International Group Inc. for almost four decades, said of Benmosche in an interview on Bloomberg Television Friday. "He stood up and fought for what he believed was right. That's what a leader does, and he did that very well. I'm proud to have called him my friend."
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