Missouri § 375.1188 - Stay of other actions — liquidator may bring certain actions, when.

§ 375.1188. Stay of other actions — liquidator may bring certain actions, when.

1.  Upon issuance of an order appointing a liquidator of a domestic insurer or of an alien insurer domiciled in this state, no action at law or equity or in arbitration shall be brought against the insurer or liquidator, whether in this state or elsewhere, nor shall any such existing actions be maintained or further presented after issuance of such order.  The courts of this state shall give full faith and credit to injunctions against the liquidator or the company or the continuation of existing actions against the liquidator or the company, when such injunctions are included in an order to liquidate an insurer issued pursuant to corresponding provisions in other states.  Whenever, in the liquidator's judgment, protection of the estate of the insurer necessitates intervention in an action against the insurer that is pending outside this state, he may intervene in the action.  The liquidator may defend any action in which he intervenes pursuant to this section at the expense of the estate of the insurer.

2.  The liquidator may, upon or after an order for liquidation, within ten years or such other longer time as applicable law may permit, institute an action or proceeding on behalf of the estate of the insurer upon any cause of action against which a period of limitation fixed by applicable law has not expired at the time of the filing of the petition upon which such order is entered.  Where, by any agreement, a period of limitation is fixed for instituting a suit or proceeding upon any claim, or for filing any claims, proof of claim, proof of loss, demand, notice, or the like, or where in any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, a period of limitation is fixed, either in the proceeding or by applicable law, for taking any action, filing any claim or pleading, or doing any act, and where in any such case the period had not expired at the date of the filing of the petition, the expiration of such periods shall be stayed and the liquidator may, for the benefit of the estate, take any such action or do any such act, required of or permitted to the insurer, within a period of ten years subsequent to the entry of an order for liquidation, or within such further period as is shown to the satisfaction of the court not to be unfairly prejudicial to the other party.

3.  No statute of limitation or defense of laches shall run with respect to any action against an insurer between the filing of a petition for liquidation against an insurer and the denial of the petition.  Any action against the insurer that might have been commenced when the petition was filed may be commenced for at least sixty days after the petition is denied.

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(L. 1991 H.B. 385, et al. § 73)

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