Community National Bank v. Medical Benefit Administrators, LLC
Court of Appeals of Wisconsin
1Opinion of the CourtRoggensack, J.
¶ 1. Medical Benefit Administrators, LLC (MBA) appeals an order of the circuit court approving the final accounting of its court-appointed receiver. MBA claims that the circuit court erred because the purchaser of MBA's assets awarded the receiver a $400,000 consulting contract as part of MBA's asset sale. We conclude that the receiver had a fiduciary duty to MBA and its creditors not to deal with receivership property to benefit itself at their expense and that the consulting contract constituted a corporate opportunity belonging to MBA, which the receiver appropriated to itself. As a…
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