Legal Opinion
In Re the Liquidation of Home Insurance
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Decided February 20, 2009No. 2008-440PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHicks, J.
The appellant, Sheiness, Scott, Grossman & Cohn, L.L.P. (SSGC), challenges a ruling of the Trial Court (Conboy, J.) sustaining the assignment of pre-liquidation legal fees to Class V Residual Classification, RSA 402-C:44, V (2006), for priority of payment under the Insurers Rehabilitation and Liquidation Act, RSA ch. 402-C (2006). We affirm.
The parties do not dispute the relevant facts. SSGC rendered legal services between October 2002 and January 2003 to The Home Insurance Company (Home) in connection with certain asbestos-related litigation. Home subsequently entered receivership upon…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Roberts v. General Motors Corp.Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 1994
- In Re Coronet Ins. Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1998
- In Re the Liquidation of the Home InsuranceSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 2006
- People Ex Rel. Schacht v. Prestige Casualty Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1997
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