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News - Schemes challenge upheld by UK High Court.
(From Reinsurance)
The English High Court has upheld a challenge to the voting process for solvent schemes of arrangement proposed by a group of 16 insurance companies that underwrote insurance and reinsurance business in pooling arrangements known as the WFUM Pools.
The case, in the Matter of Sovereign Marine & General Ins Co et al., saw a challenge brought by 13 US policyholders, including Goodrich, Textron, Sears Holdings, Exxon Mobil and their affiliated companies. They objected to the proposed scheme on the ground that scheme creditors with existing liabilities and outstanding claims had different rights from scheme creditors with contingent liabilities for asbestos, pollution and other "incurred but not reported" (IBNR) claims, and that these differences required the convening of separate classes for purposes of voting on the proposed schemes. (IBNR claims are claims where the event giving rise to the policyholder's liability (for example, ...
- Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger
- Picture from: Archive Photos September 1, 1994 700+ words
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 27, 1988 700+ words
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- Chief Justice Warren
- Picture from: Archive Photos September 1, 1994 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) November 10, 1995 700+ words
Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn If you saw the story about the late Chief Justice Warren Burger the other day, you probably got a laugh. He prepared his own will and, apparently, messed it up. Or so charged Arlington...
- Chief Justice Warren E. Burger to hold a news conference on the U.S....
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 22, 1986 700+ words
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 1, 1984 700+ words
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- Los Angeles County Bar Association joins The Center for Democracy of Boston...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 31, 1986 700+ words
...Center for Democracy of Boston University, in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Bar Association, will honor Chief Justice Warren Burger on Monday, Feb. 3, at 7:30 p.m. at a dinner at the Beverly Hills Hotel, Beverly Hills., Calif. The chief...
- Ex-Chief Justice Warren Burger Dead at Age 87; Court Helped Define Major Social...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Joan Biskupic June 26, 1995 700+ words
Warren E. Burger, who was chief justice of the United States during one of the Supreme Court's most socially turbulent eras, died yesterday at Sibley Memorial Hospital of congestive heart failure. He was 87. The retired chief justice was an ordinary man who landed an extraordinary position when the
