Legal Opinion
Lain v. ZC Specialty Insurance (In Re Senior Living Properties, L.L.C.)
United States Bankruptcy Court, N.D. Texas
Decided April 23, 2004No. 19-30281PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
STEVEN A. FELSENTHAL, Chief Judge.
In this adversary proceeding, Dan B. Lain, the Trustee of the Senior Living Properties L.L.C. (SLP) Trust, requests that the court declare that ZC Specialty Insurance Company (Zurich) was a partner with SLP in the ownership and operation of nursing homes in Illinois and Texas and that, as a partner, Zurich is liable for all of SLP’s debts. Zurich responds that it merely provided a surety bond for the payment of a substantial portion of SLP’s mortgage and, as a result, merely held a creditor-debtor relationship with SLP.
The trust…
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