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Life Insurance Void ab initio

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STOLI Fallout: Stepping Into the Post-Void

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The phenomenon of void ab initio life insurance policies has “spawned a host of thorny questions regarding the appropriate remedial response to the identification of a policy as STOLI.” The Supreme Court of Delaware...more

King & Spalding

STOLI Policy? Don't Count on the Return of Premiums

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Two Recent Decisions Throw Cold Water on Investors’ Ability to Get Their Premiums Back on Policies Deemed Void Ab Initio - In the latter half of 2022, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the Delaware Supreme Court—two...more

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Northern District of Illinois Voids Policy Issued Pursuant to Nonrecourse Premium Financing Program but Allows for Return of...

On March 30, 2020, in a case captioned Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Judge Philip Reinhard of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued a decision...more

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New Jersey Supreme Court Rules Stranger-Originated Life Insurance Is Illegal and Void

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The New Jersey Supreme Court recently condemned stranger-originated life insurance (“STOLI”) transactions as void ab initio human life wagers in a case that the life insurance and life settlement industries watched closely....more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

New Jersey Supreme Court Rules on Insurable Interest and Return of Premiums

On June 4, 2019, in a case captioned Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., the Supreme Court of New Jersey answered two questions certified to it by the United States Court of Appeals for the Third...more

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Eleventh Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment or Insurer in STOLI Case

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In Sun Life Assur. Co. of Canada v. U.S. Bank Nat. Ass’n, the Eleventh Circuit recently clarified that where a life insurance policy lacks an insurable interest at its inception and is thus void ab initio, prejudgment...more

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Utah Federal Court Holds That Incontestability Statute Bars Insurer From Avoiding Death Claim on STOLI Policy

On March 13, 2017, Judge David Nuffer of the United States District Court for the District of Utah granted defendant Wilmington Trust Company's motion to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to invalidate an alleged "STOLI"...more

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