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SUMMARY JUDGMENT DENIED ON ISSUE OF WHETHER COMPANY WAS PARTY TO REINSURANCE AGREEMENT

July 18, 2013 by Carlton Fields

In a long running dispute concerning reinsurance, which we posted on in March 2011, a court was asked to find that Guarantee Trust was a party to a reinsurance agreement that it never signed. Acknowledging that it was a well established principle of Illinois contract law that “a party may, by his acts and conduct, assent to contravct terms and become bound by them even though he has not signed the contract, if it is clear that his conduct relates to the specific contract in question,” the cour found that there were disputed issues of material fact as to whether American Medical had demonstrated the types of acts and conduct which would bind Guarantee Trust to a reinsurance agreement it had not signed. The court therefore denied American Medical’s motion for summary judgment. Guarantee Trust Life Ins. Co. v. American Medical and Life Ins. Co., Case No. 10-2125 (USDC N.D. Ill. Mar, 27, 2013).

This post written by Rollie Goss.

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