Chubb ended Trump fraud bond talks after backing E. Jean Carroll appeal bond, court filing says
Donald Trump and his co-defendants were in talks with insurance giant Chubb for a $464 million appeal bond in the former president's civil fraud case, but the company backed out — days after it raised eyebrows for giving Trump a bond in a separate case, according to a Trump lawyer. Chubb was one of more than 30 companies that refused to craft a bond that would put the massive business fraud judgment on pause, attorneys for Trump said in a New York appeals court filing Monday. The attorneys in that filing asked the appeals court to "put the brakes" on the judgment before New York Attorney General Letitia James can start to collect on it — a process that could begin as soon as next week. James has said she will seize Trump's assets if he cannot pay the judgment. A panel of judges on that court has yet to rule on Trump's request to pause the ju