Legal Opinion
American United Life Insurance v. Martinez
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided March 7, 2007No. 05-14920PublishedCited by 254 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAY, Circuit Judge:
The appellants, seventeen insurers that filed an ancillary tort suit in a Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) action against a group of viatical settlement companies, challenge the dismissal of their amended complaint. A viatical contract is an agreement to purchase life insurance benefits from a viator, a policyholder who is terminally ill or of advanced age. The original policyholder sells the rights to his policy for a fraction of what the policy would pay upon his death, realizing an immediate return on an otherwise illiquid asset. The insurers alleged that the…
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