Wasatch Crest Insurance Co. v. LWP Claims Administrators Corp.

WILKINS, Associate Chief Justice:

T1 On direct appeal from the district court's grant of summary judgment, the Utah Insurance Commissioner, as court-appointed liquidator (the "Liquidator"), seeks to recover, on behalf of two liquidating insurance companies, payments made by the companies to a former affiliate. Utah Code section 31A-27-322 allows a liquidator to recover "from any affiliate that controlled [a liquidating] insurer the amount of distributions ... made at any time during the five years preceding the petition for liquidation." We agree with the district court that the affiliate in…