Section 37. Insurers Rehabilitation and Liquidation, 33-37-1 through 33-37-58.
ARTICLE 4
LIQUIDATION PROCEEDINGS
33-37-57. Superiority of order of distribution issued by domiciliary state; priority of payment and claims; rights of secured creditors.
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In a liquidation proceeding in this state involving one or more other states, the order of distribution of the domiciliary state shall control as to all claims of residents of this and other states. All claims of residents of other states shall be given equal priority of payment from general assets regardless of where such assets are located.
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The owners of special deposit claims against an insurer for which a liquidator is appointed in this or any other state shall be given priority against the special deposits in accordance with the statutes governing the creation and maintenance of the deposits.If there is a deficiency in any deposit, so that the claims secured by it are not fully discharged from it, the claimants may share in the general assets, but the sharing shall be deferred until general creditors, and also claimants against other special deposits who have received smaller percentages from their respective special deposits, have been paid percentages of their claims equal to the percentage paid from the special deposit.
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The owner of a secured claim against an insurer for which a liquidator has been appointed in this or any other state may surrender his security and file his claim as a general creditor, or the claim may be discharged by resort to the security in accordance with Code Section 33-37-40, in which case the deficiency, if any, shall be treated as a claim against the general assets of the insurer on the same basis as claims of unsecured creditors.
(Code 1981, §33-37-57, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 1424, § 7; Ga. L. 1992, p. 6, § 33; Ga. L. 2016, p. 816, § 7/HB 883.)
The 2016 amendment,
effective July 1, 2016, substituted "other states" for "reciprocal states" throughout subsection (a).
