(a) Within ninety (90) days of the commissioner‘s approval of a valid claim, the department shall, in accordance with this section, compensate from the Tennessee grain indemnity fund any claimant who has incurred a financial loss due to a failure of a commodity dealer or warehouseman.

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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 43-32-210

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Claimant: means :
    (A) Any producer or person, possessing warehouse receipts covering commodities owned or stored by the warehouseman. See Tennessee Code 43-32-102
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture, or the commissioner's designated representatives. See Tennessee Code 43-32-102
  • Commodity: means grain. See Tennessee Code 43-32-102
  • Commodity dealer: means any person engaged in the business of buying commodities from producers thereof for resale or for milling or processing. See Tennessee Code 43-32-102
  • Department: means the Tennessee department of agriculture. See Tennessee Code 43-32-102
  • Failure: means :
    (A) An inability to financially satisfy a claimant in accordance with applicable statute or regulation and the time limits provided therein, if any. See Tennessee Code 43-32-102
  • Grain: means corn, wheat, oats, rye, soybeans, rape seed, canola and grain sorghums. See Tennessee Code 43-32-102
  • Valid claim: means a claim arising from a failure of a commodity dealer or warehouseman that occurs after July 1, 1989, and adjudicated valid by the commissioner, net of all credits and offsets, and in accordance with §. See Tennessee Code 43-32-102
  • Warehouse receipt: means :
    (A) A warehouse receipt issued under this chapter in accordance with the Uniform Commercial Code. See Tennessee Code 43-32-102
(1) Any claimant who has incurred a financial loss due to a failure of a commodity dealer shall be entitled to be compensated for eighty-five percent (85%) of a valid claim, to a maximum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), with moneys from the Tennessee grain indemnity fund. To the maximum extent that funds are or may be made available for such purpose, the remaining balance of the claims shall be paid by the department from the assets and other security of the failed dealer.
(2) Any claimant who has incurred a financial loss due to the failure of a warehouseman and who has surrendered a warehouse receipt for payment or holds a warehouse receipt and cannot receive value shall be compensated for one hundred percent (100%) of the claim.
(b) To the extent that the balance of the grain indemnity fund increases as a result of § 43-32-207(b), the maximum amount per claimant set forth in subsection (a) shall be adjusted proportionately, so that the maximum amount per claimant shall be maintained at three and one-third percent (31/3%) of the balance of the grain indemnity fund at the time of a failure of a commodity dealer.
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