New risks surface from policy sales among insurers
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Courts are calling into question the practice of assumption reinsurance and in Security Benefit Life Insurance Co v Federal Deposit Insurance Corp an insurance company was held liable for this practice. The court held that a transfer of annuities constituted a contract novation due to the substitution of the party obligated under the contract and that this could not occur without shareholder consent to release the company from liability. The Financial Accounting Standards Board has also required that insurance companies deem transfers to be liabilities even in the absence of novation.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1992
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Roundtable chafes at ALI's view on shareholder suits
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The Business Roundtable is dissatisfied with the American Law Institute's (ALI) views on stockholder derivative suits as expressed in the ALI's soon-to-be-issued Principles of Corporate Governance. The ALI plan to mandate the demand requirement when some jurisdictions have excused it as futile has caused the dissatisfaction.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1993
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