(a) Within 120 days of a final determination of insolvency of an insurance company by a court of competent jurisdiction the receiver shall make application to the said court for approval of a proposal to disburse assets out of such company’s marshalled assets, from time to time as such assets become available, to the Alabama Insurance Guaranty Association and to any entity or person performing a similar function in another state. (The Alabama Insurance Guaranty Association and any entity or person performing a similar function in other states shall hereinafter be referred to collectively as the associations.)
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Terms Used In Alabama Code 27-42-20

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • United States: includes the territories thereof and the District of Columbia. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(b) Such proposal shall at least include provisions for:

(1) Reserving amounts for the payment of expenses of administration and claims falling within the priorities established in the Alabama Uniform Insurers Liquidation Act but only with respect to such priorities higher than that of the associations;
(2) Disbursement of the assets marshalled to date and subsequent disbursement of assets as they become available;
(3) Equitable allocation of disbursements to each of the associations entitled thereto;
(4) The securing by the receiver from each of the associations entitled to disbursements pursuant to this section of an agreement to return to the receiver such assets previously disbursed as may be required to pay claims of secured creditors and claims with a higher priority than those of the associations. No bond shall be required of any such association.
(c) The receiver’s proposal shall provide for disbursements to the associations in amounts at least equal to the payments made or to be made thereby for which such associations could assert claims against the receiver, and shall further provide that if the assets available for disbursement from time to time do not equal or exceed the amount of such payments made or to be made by the associations then disbursements shall be in the amount of available assets.
(d) Notice of such application shall be given to the associations in and to the commissioners of insurance of each of the states. Any such notice shall be deemed to have been given when deposited in the United States certified mails, first-class postage prepaid, at least 30 days prior to submission of such application to the said court. Action on the application may be taken by the said court provided the above required notice has been given and provided further that the receiver’s proposal complies with subdivisions (1) and (4) of subsection (b) of this section.
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