What Happens to AIG Customers? As insurance giant struggles, insurance customers worry about their benefits.

Sept. 16, 2008 -- An accident three years ago left Gloria Cirolo-Wright so injured that she couldn't continue with her job as a nurse. Today, the 57-year-old Massachusetts woman and her husband, a maintenance supervisor, rely on a weekly worker's compensation check from AIG to help make ends meet.

AIG is one of the world's largest insurance companies, with operations in 130 countries and products that include worker's compensation, auto insurance, life insurance and annuities. Now, as the company struggles to stay afloat amid losses related to the country's mortgage crisis, Cirolo-Wright is one of many customers questioning whether her benefits are in danger.

"I'm really worried that if AIG is going bankrupt that means thatTAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Vice President-elect Lai Ching-te (賴清德) is currently on a trip to the United States to attend the National Prayer Breakfast.

On Monday Lai met with U.S. Senator Marco Rubio in Washington D.C. Lai’s trip to the U.S. is made possible by the Taiwan Travel Act passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by U.S. President Donald Trump in March 2018.

The law, which promotes high-level exchanges between the governments of the two countries, is seen by Taiwan as the most important breakthrough in the Taiwan-U.S. relations since the Taiwan Relations Act in 1979.

"Lai's trip to the U.S. capital was the first made by a Taiwanese vice president-elect since Washington switched diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing in 1979, though his office has said that