IN RE FINLEY, KUMBLE, ET AL.

No. 1596, Docket 96-5125.

130 F.3d 52 (1997)

In re FINLEY, KUMBLE, WAGNER, HEINE, UNDERBERG, MANLEY, MYERSON & CASEY, Debtor. Arthur H. CHRISTY, as Trustee of the Finley Kumble, et al Malpractice Insurance Trust, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ALEXANDER & ALEXANDER OF NEW YORK INC.; Alexander International Insurance Services, Ltd.; Alexander Howden Insurance Brokers, Ltd., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 26, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Cambria, New York City (Salvatore A. Santoro, Frank E. Derby, Daniel R. Milstein, Christy & Viener, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Wayne R. Glaubinger, New York City (Lawrence S. Greengrass, Mound, Cotton & Wollan, on the brief), New York City, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: WINTER, Chief Judge, JACOBS, and LEVAL, Circuit Judges.


JACOBS, Circuit Judge:

The question presented on this appeal is whether an insurance broker, having recommended the purchase of insurance (assumed to have afforded no useful coverage) to a firm that was then insolvent and soon after bankrupt, was an "initial transferee" within the meaning of 11 U.S.C. § 550(a) in respect of an allegedly fraudulent transfer under 11 U.S.C. § 548(a)(2) when the broker transferred the...

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