Preferred Insurance v. Bentley

Grice, Justice.

We must affirm the trial court’s judgment that the deposits made with this state by a Michigan insurance company, now in receivership, be held for the benefit of all Georgia claimants, and the balance of such deposits, if any, after all such claims have been liquidated, be paid to the domiciliary receiver.

The only provision in Georgia law for transferring deposits made with this state by a foreign insurance company to the domiciliary receiver of the company is in the Uniform Insurers Liquidation Act (Ga. L. 1960, pp. 289, 509 et seq., Ch. 56-14; Code Ann. Ch. 56-14), and there…