Oregon Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Ass'n v. Inter-Regional Financial Group, Inc.

This action arises out of the sale of single premium deferred annuities to 12 Oregon citizens. The company that sold those annuities, Midwest Life Insurance Company (Midwest), eventually collapsed, causing the Oregon annuity holders to lose their investments. Plaintiff, Oregon Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association, as a statutory guarantor, paid the losses sustained by the Oregon annuity holders and, in so doing, became subrogated to their claims. It then filed subrogated claims for fraud, negligence, breach of fiduciary duty and a direct action claim for intentional interference…