Legal Opinion
Trustmark Insurance Company v. General & Cologne Life Re of America, Formerly Known as Cologne Life Reinsurance Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 13, 2005No. 04-3216PublishedCited by 191 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
Surely, if there is any moral to this story, it is to “get it in writing.” It is astounding in this day and age to find it necessary to repeat this admonition, but no less so than to find a sophisticated party willing to leverage an agreement involving multiple years and millions of dollars solely on the enforceability of a simple handshake. Yet that is precisely what has happened in this case. Plaintiff Trust-mark Insurance Company (“Trustmark”) brought suit against defendant General & Cologne Life Re of America (“Cologne”), another insurance company, over an alleged…
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