The potential losses of these eight investors total $21.32 billion.
The company has had five years of losses totaling $504 million.
He said such losses have totaled more than $5.4 billion since 1987.
Its losses in 2004 and 2005 totaled nearly $2 billion.
The losses in 2001 and 2002 totaled nearly $5.2 billion.
In court last week, American said its losses totaled more than $40 million.
Combined, their losses might total more than a quarter million, but not in cash.
Sources estimated that those losses could total about $70 million after taxes.
The results for 1990 followed losses the two previous years totaling $3.8 billion.
By the end of 1988, its losses totaled nearly $:50 million.