Missouri Laws 375.710 – Conflict of interests — power of court — trustees
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 375.710
- Director: the director of the department of commerce and insurance. See Missouri Laws 375.001
- Insurer: all insurance companies, reciprocals, or interinsurance exchanges transacting the business of insurance in this state. See Missouri Laws 375.001
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
In case of any conflict of interests on any matter, or concerning the enforcement or settlement of any conflicting claims between two or more insurers, the settlement and winding up of whose affairs shall be under the charge of the director, it shall be the duty of the director, and the right of any person interested in any of the insurers to report the fact of conflict and the question or questions involved to the court in which any of the causes is pending, and such court, thereupon, shall have power to appoint a trustee, to have charge and control of the interests of any of the insurers as regards the settlement or enforcement of its claims in respect to the matter in controversy, or to make such other orders providing for the settlement, adjustment or enforcement of the rights of the insurer in the matter as to the court shall seem best adapted to the protection of the rights of all.