(a) The pleadings in any legal action brought by or against a protected cell captive insurance company shall specify which protected cell or cells are or should be named a party to the suit. If the general account is party to this suit, it likewise shall be separately identified in the pleadings as if it were a protected cell.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 56-13-208

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Captive insurance company: means any pure captive insurance company, association captive insurance company, agency captive insurance company, industrial insured captive insurance company, risk retention group, protected cell captive insurance company, incorporated cell captive insurance company, or special purpose financial captive insurance company formed or licensed under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 56-13-102
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • General account: means all assets and liabilities of a protected cell captive insurance company not attributable to a protected cell. See Tennessee Code 56-13-202
  • Participant: means a person or an entity, authorized to be a participant by §. See Tennessee Code 56-13-202
  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Protected cell: means a separate account established by a protected cell captive insurance company formed or licensed under this chapter, in which an identified pool of assets and liabilities are segregated and insulated by means of this chapter from the remainder of the protected cell captive insurance company's assets and liabilities in accordance with the terms of one (1) or more participant contracts to fund the liability of the protected cell captive insurance company with respect to the participants as set forth in the participant contracts. See Tennessee Code 56-13-202
  • Protected cell captive insurance company: means any captive insurance company:
    (A) In which the minimum capital and surplus required by this chapter are provided by one (1) or more sponsors. See Tennessee Code 56-13-202
(b) A legal action brought against a protected cell captive insurance company that does not specify one (1) or more protected cells shall be deemed to have been brought against the general account only.
(c) Any protected cell that is not named in the pleadings of the legal action shall not be deemed to be a party to the legal action. Any protected cell that is erroneously named as a party or named without proper cause shall be entitled to prompt dismissal from the legal action.
(d) Unless specified by the plan of operation, participant contract, or other prior contractual agreement, the assets of one (1) protected cell may not be encumbered or seized to satisfy the obligations of or a judgment against any other protected cell. No protected cell has a duty to defend the rights and obligations of any other protected cell.
(e) In any legal action involving a protected cell captive insurance company or a protected cell, any papers, documents, or property of a nonparty protected cell shall be afforded the same status during discovery as the documents or property of any other unrelated third party. A nonparty protected cell shall have standing to appear and petition for any appropriate relief to protect the confidentiality of its papers or documents.
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