Trustmark Insurance Company v. General & Cologne Life Re of America, Formerly Known as Cologne Life Reinsurance Company

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 2005-09-13

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WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge. Surely, if there is any moral to this story, it is to “get it in writing.” It is astounding in this day and age to find it necessary to repeat this admonition, but no less so than to find a sophisticated party willing to leverage an agreement involving multiple years and millions of dollars solely on the enforceability of a simple handshake. Yet that is…

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