2018 Wyoming Statutes
TITLE 26 - INSURANCE CODE
CHAPTER 28 - REHABILITATION AND LIQUIDATION
SECTION 26-28-127 - Allowance of certain claims after insolvency; entry of liquidation order.
26-28-127. Allowance of certain claims after insolvency; entry of liquidation order.
(a) No contingent and unliquidated claim shall share in a distribution of an insurer's assets if that insurer is adjudicated to be insolvent by an order made pursuant to this chapter, except that the claim shall be considered, if properly presented, and may be allowed to share if:
(i) The claim is absolute against the insurer on or before the last day for filing claims against the insurer's assets; or
(ii) There is a surplus and the liquidation is thereafter conducted upon the basis that the insurer is solvent.
(b) If an insurer is adjudicated to be insolvent, any person who has a cause of action against an insured of that insurer, under a liability insurance policy issued by the insurer, may file a claim in the liquidation proceeding, regardless of the fact that the claim is contingent, and the claim may be allowed if:
(i) It may be reasonably inferred from the proof presented upon the claim that the person would be able to obtain a judgment upon the cause of action against the insured;
(ii) The person furnishes suitable proof, unless the court for good cause shown otherwise directs, that no further valid claim against the insurer arising out of his cause of action other than those already presented can be made; and
(iii) The insurer's total liability to all claimants arising out of the same act of its insured is no greater than its maximum liability would be were it not in liquidation.
(c) No judgment against an insured taken after the date of entry of the liquidation order shall be considered in the liquidation proceedings as evidence of liability, or of the amount of damages. No judgment against an insured taken by default or by collusion prior to the entry of the liquidation order shall be considered as conclusive evidence in the liquidation proceedings, either of the liability of the insured to the person upon the cause of action or of the amount of damages to which the person is entitled.
(d) No claim of any secured claimant shall be allowed at a sum greater than the difference between the value of the claim without security and the value of the security itself as of the date of the entry of the order of liquidation or any other date the court sets for determining rights and liabilities as provided in W.S. 26-28-123 unless the claimant surrenders his security to the commissioner, in which case the claim shall be allowed in the full amount for which it is valued.
