IN MATTER OF LIQUIDATION OF HOME INS. CO.

No. 2005-740.

913 A.2d 712 (2006)

In the Matter of the LIQUIDATION OF the HOME INSURANCE COMPANY.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

Opinion Issued: December 5, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster, of Boston, Massachusetts (J. David Leslie and Eric A. Smith on the brief, and Mr. Leslie orally), and Kelly A. Ayotte, attorney general (J. Christopher Marshall, attorney, on the brief), for the petitioner, the Commissioner of Insurance of the State of New Hampshire as Liquidator of the Home Insurance Company.

Lovells, of New York, New York (Gary S. Lee & a. on the brief, and Pieter Van Tol orally), and Orr & Reno, P.A., of Concord (Ronald L. Snow and Lisa Snow Wade on the brief), for intervenors Century Indemnity Company, Pacific Employers Insurance Company, ACE Property and Casualty Insurance Company, and ACE American Reinsurance Company.

Downs Rachlin Martin, PLLC, of Burlington, Vermont (Andre D. Bouffard and Eric D. Jones on the brief, and Mr. Bouffard orally) for intervenor Benjamin Moore & Company.

Rebecca W. McElduff, of Kansas City, Missouri, by brief, and Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green, P.A., of Manchester (Bruce A. Harwood and James P. Harris on the brief) for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, as amicus curiae.

Wiggin & Nourie, P.A., of Manchester (Doreen F. Connor on the brief), and Dykema Gossett PLLC, of Detroit, Michigan (Suzanne Sahakian on the brief) for the National Conference of Insurance Guaranty Funds, as amicus curiae.

Orr & Reno, P.A., of Concord (Lisa Snow Wade on the brief), and Tracy W. Laws and Matthew T. Wulf, of Washington, D.C., by brief for the Reinsurance Association of America, as amicus curiae.


DUGGAN, J.

The intervenors, Century Indemnity Company, Pacific Employers Insurance Company, ACE Property and Casualty Insurance Company, ACE American Reinsurance Company (collectively, the ACE Companies) and Benjamin Moore & Company (BMC), appeal orders of the Superior Court (McGuire, J.) granting the motion of the petitioner, the New Hampshire Commissioner of Insurance (commissioner) as liquidator of the Home Insurance Company (Home), for approval of a...

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