South Carolina § 38-23-50 - Profits realized from certain transactions by beneficial owners, directors, or officers inure to insurer; suit to recover these profits.

§ 38-23-50. Profits realized from certain transactions by beneficial owners, directors, or officers inure to insurer; suit to recover these profits.

For the purpose of preventing the unfair use of information which may have been obtained by a beneficial owner, director, or officer by reason of his relationship to the insurer, any profit realized by him from any purchase and sale, or any sale and purchase, of any equity security of the insurer within any period of less than six months, unless the security was acquired in good faith in connection with a debt previously contracted, inures to and is recoverable by the insurer, irrespective of any intention on the part of the beneficial owner, director, or officer in entering into the transaction of holding the security purchased or of not repurchasing the security sold for a period exceeding six months. Suit to recover this profit may be instituted at law or in equity in any court of competent jurisdiction by the insurer or by the owner of any security of the insurer in the name and in behalf of the insurer if the insurer fails or refuses to bring the suit within sixty days after request or fails diligently to prosecute it thereafter. This suit may not be brought more than two years after the date the profit was realized. This section may not be construed to cover any transaction where the beneficial owner was not a beneficial owner both at the time of the purchase and sale, or the sale and purchase, of the security involved, or any transaction or transactions which the department, by regulation, may exempt as not comprehended within the purpose of this section.

HISTORY: Former 1976 Code SECTION 38-23-50 [1947 (45) 322; 1952 Code SECTION 37-1005; 1962 Code SECTION 37-1005] recodified as SECTION 38-35-50 by 1987 Act No. 155, SECTION 1; Former 1976 Code SECTION 35-9-40 [1962 Code SECTION 62-473; 1966 (54) 2146] recodified as SECTION 38-23-50 by 1987 Act No. 155, SECTION 1; 1993 Act No. 181, SECTION 595.