Legal Wyoming top court sides with Sinclair refinery on fee-award question
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A Canadian oil refinery glows at dusk in Edmonton February 15, 2009. REUTERS/Dan Riedlhuber/File Photo
A Sinclair refinery can seek attorneysâ fees from Swiss insurer Infrassure under Wyoming law even though the policy was not issued in Wyoming or physically delivered in the state, the Wyoming Supreme Court held Monday in answer to a certified question from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
In its first interpretation of a fee-award statute that applies only to insurance policies âdeliveredâ or âissued for delivery inâ Wyoming, the high court found the law âclearly and unambiguously provides that an insurance contract is issued for delivery in Wyoming if the policy issued is intended to protect an insured in Wyoming against risks in Wyoming.â
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Hank Greenberg Fast Facts
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Birth place: New York, New York
Birth name: Maurice Raymond Greenberg
Father: Jacob Greenberg
Education: University of Miami, B.A., 1948; New York Law School, LL.B., 1950
Military: US Army, Captain
Awarded the Legion of Honor from France.
Vice chairman of the National Committee on United States-China Relations.
Timeline
1960 – Is hired as a vice president for the insurance-holding company C.V. Starr & Co., Inc.
1968 – C.V. Starr & Co., Inc. begins distributing some the firm’s subsidiaries in order to raise capital to establish American International Group, Inc. (AIG). Greenberg becomes the Chairman and CEO of AIG.
Hank Greenberg Fast Facts
Personal
Birth place: New York, New York
Birth name: Maurice Raymond Greenberg
Father: Jacob Greenberg
Education: University of Miami, B.A., 1948; New York Law School, LL.B., 1950
Military: US Army, Captain
Awarded the Legion of Honor from France.
Vice chairman of the National Committee on United States-China Relations.
Timeline
1960 – Is hired as a vice president for the insurance-holding company C.V. Starr & Co., Inc.
1968 – C.V. Starr & Co., Inc. begins distributing some the firm’s subsidiaries in order to raise capital to establish American International Group, Inc. (AIG). Greenberg becomes the Chairman and CEO of AIG.
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