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, but the company backed out, a Trump Organization lawyer said.
• Chubb previously provided Trump's $91.6 million appeal bond in writer E. Jean Carroll's civil defamation case.
• In his New York civil business fraud case, Trump's lawyers said they reached out unsuccessfully to more than 30 companies to secure a bond.
• Those companies include Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, Liberty Mutual, Allianz, Chubb and Travelers, among others.

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 judgment without him having to post a fully secured bond.

Alan Garten, a lawyer for the Trump Organization, said in that filing that Chubb was the only company willing to consider underwriting an appeal bond secured by a blend of liquid assets and real property.

The other companies — which included Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, Liberty Mutual,