FAIRFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 2, 2005--General Electric today said it received a subpoena from the New York Regional Office of the Securities & Exchange Commission on Friday, April 29. The subpoena, which seeks documents relating to "certain loss mitigation insurance products," is general in nature. GE will cooperate fully with the SEC.
GE understands that a number of other insurance and reinsurance companies have been subpoenaed by the SEC in relation to finite risk. One of GE's businesses, GE Insurance Solutions, has made limited use of reinsurance with finite characteristics to manage the risks of catastrophic events such as storms or hurricanes, and to protect itself and GE shareowners from the volatility that is inherent in its business.
GE, its Corporate Audit Staff and its outside auditor, KPMG LLP, have conducted numerous reviews of these agreements during the past several years as part of the Company's intensive strategic reviews of Insurance Solutions' operations, and the Company is confident that Insurance Solutions' risk transfer agreements have been properly structured, properly accounted for with appropriate risk transfer, and properly disclosed.
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Caution Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
2005 results are preliminary and quarterly information is unaudited. This document contains "forward-looking statements" - that is, statements related to future, not past, events. In this context, forward-looking statements often address our expected future business and financial performance, and often contain words such as "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "seeks," or "will." Forward-looking statements by their nature address matters that are, to different degrees, uncertain. For us, particular uncertainties arise from the behavior of financial markets, including fluctuations in interest rates and commodity prices, from future integration of acquired businesses, from future financial performance of major industries which we serve, including, without limitation, the air and rail transportation, energy generation, media, real estate and healthcare industries, from unanticipated loss development in our insurance businesses, and from numerous other matters of national, regional and global scale, including those of a political, economic, business, competitive and regulatory nature. These uncertainties may cause our actual future results to be materially different than those expressed in our forward-looking statements. We do not undertake to update our forward-looking statements.
Contacts
General Electric, Fairfield
David Frail, 203-373-3387
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or
GE Insurance Solutions, Kansas City, Missouri
Dean Davison, 816-448-7604 and 913-244-9033
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Jeff Wilson
GE Capital Corporate Finance
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1-203-749-6340