A settlement would come about a month after the Marsh & McLennan Companies , the world 's biggest broker of commercial insurance , agreed to pay $ 850 million to settle a lawsuit brought in October by the New York attorney general , Eliot Spitzer , that accused the company of rigging bids and steering business in exchange for incentive payments .
Eliot Spitzer /business/person/company New York
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Eliot Spitzer
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