(a) Any receiver appointed in a proceeding under this chapter may at any time apply for, and any court of general jurisdiction may grant, the restraining orders, preliminary and permanent injunctions, and other orders as may be deemed necessary and proper to prevent:

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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 56-9-105

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Federal home loan bank: means an institution chartered under the Federal Home Loan Bank Act ( 12 U. See Tennessee Code 56-9-103
  • Insurer: means any person who has done, purports to do, is doing or is licensed to do an insurance business, and is or has been subject to the authority of, or to liquidation, rehabilitation, reorganization, supervision, or conservation by, any insurance commissioner. See Tennessee Code 56-9-103
  • 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.
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Receiver: means receiver, liquidator, rehabilitator or conservator as the context requires. See Tennessee Code 56-9-103
  • State: means any state, district or territory of the United States and the Panama Canal Zone. See Tennessee Code 56-9-103
  • Transfer: includes the sale and every other and different mode, direct or indirect, of disposing of or of parting with property or with an interest therein, or with the possession thereof or of fixing a lien upon property or upon an interest therein, absolutely or conditionally, voluntarily, by or without judicial proceedings. See Tennessee Code 56-9-103
(1) The transaction of further business;
(2) The transfer of property;
(3) Interference with the receiver or with a proceeding under this chapter;
(4) Waste of the insurer‘s assets;
(5) Dissipation and transfer of bank accounts;
(6) The institution or further prosecution of any actions or proceedings;
(7) The obtaining of preferences, judgments, attachments, garnishments or liens against the insurer, its assets or its policyholders;
(8) The levying of execution against the insurer, its assets or its policyholders;
(9) The making of any sale or deed for nonpayment of taxes or assessments that would lessen the value of the assets of the insurer;
(10) The withholding from the receiver of books, accounts, documents or other records relating to the business of the insurer; or
(11) Any other threatened or contemplated action that might lessen the value of the insurer’s assets or prejudice the rights of policyholders, creditors or shareholders, or the administration of any proceeding under this chapter.
(b) The receiver may apply to any court outside of this state for the relief described in subsection (a).
(c) Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b) and any other provision of this title, a federal home loan bank shall not be stayed, enjoined, or prohibited from exercising or enforcing any right or cause of action regarding collateral pledged under a security agreement or under any pledge agreement, security agreement, collateral agreement, or other similar arrangement or credit enhancement relating to a security agreement to which the federal home loan bank is a party.
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