(a) To receive payment of a claim against the estate of a trust bank or uninsured bank in receivership, a person who has a claim, other than a shareholder acting in that capacity, including a claimant with a secured claim or a fiduciary claimant ordered by the receiver to file a proof of claim under subdivision (2) of subsection (b) of § 36a-225, shall present proof of the claim to the receiver at a place specified by the receiver, within the period specified by the receiver. Receipt of the required proof of claim by the receiver is a condition precedent to the payment of the claim. A claim that is not filed within the period or at the place specified by the receiver may not participate in a distribution of the assets by the receiver, except that, subject to court approval, the receiver may accept a claim filed not later than the one-hundred-eightieth day after the date notice of the claimant’s right to file a proof of claim is mailed to the claimant, provided such claim shall be subordinate to an approved claim of a general creditor. Interest does not accrue on any claim after the date the bank is placed in receivership. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to a fiduciary claimant or depositor where the records of the bank in receivership are sufficient to identify the fiduciary claimant’s or depositor’s interest.

Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 36a-237f

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Bank: means a Connecticut bank or a federal bank. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
  • Commissioner: means the Banking Commissioner and, with respect to any function of the commissioner, includes any person authorized or designated by the commissioner to carry out that function. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
  • Connecticut credit union: means a cooperative, nonprofit financial institution that (A) is organized under chapter 667 and the membership of which is limited as provided in §. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Deposit: means funds deposited with a depository. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
  • Depositor: includes a member of a mutual savings and loan association. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Federal credit union: means any institution chartered or organized as a federal credit union pursuant to the laws of the United States having its principal office in this state. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
  • Fiduciary: means a person undertaking to act alone or jointly with others primarily for the benefit of another or others in all matters connected with its undertaking and includes a person acting in the capacity of trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, assignee, receiver, conservator, agent, custodian under the Connecticut Uniform Gifts to Minors Act or the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act, and acting in any other similar capacity. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Mutual: when used in conjunction with any institution that is a bank or out-of-state bank means any such institution without capital stock. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • oath: shall include affirmations in cases where by law an affirmation may be used for an oath, and, in like cases, the word "swear" shall include the word "affirm". See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Out-of-state: includes any state other than Connecticut and any foreign country. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
  • Out-of-state credit union: means any credit union other than a Connecticut credit union or a federal credit union. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
  • Person: means an individual, company, including a company described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of subdivision (11) of this section, or any other legal entity, including a federal, state or municipal government or agency or any political subdivision thereof. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • State: means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, any territory of the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the trust territory of the Pacific Islands, the Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
  • Trust bank: means a Connecticut bank organized to function solely in a fiduciary capacity. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Uninsured bank: means a Connecticut bank that does not accept retail deposits and for which insurance of deposits by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or its successor agency is not required. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2

(b) (1) The proof of claim against a trust bank or an uninsured bank shall be in writing, be signed by the claimant, and include: (A) A statement of the claim; (B) a description of the consideration for the claim; (C) a statement of whether collateral is held or a security interest is asserted against the claim and, if so, a description of the collateral or security interest; (D) a statement of any right of priority of payment for the claim or other specific right asserted by the claimant; (E) a statement of whether a payment has been made on the claim and, if so, the amount and source of the payment, to the extent known by the claimant; (F) a statement that the amount claimed is justly owed by the bank to the claimant; and (G) any other matter that is required by the Superior Court.

(2) The receiver may designate the form of the proof of claim. A proof of claim shall be filed under oath unless the oath is waived by the receiver. If a claim is founded on a written instrument, the original instrument, unless lost or destroyed, shall be filed with the proof of claim. After the instrument is filed, the receiver may permit the claimant to substitute a copy of the instrument until the final disposition of the claim. If the instrument is lost or destroyed, a statement of that fact and of the circumstances of the loss or destruction shall be filed under oath with the claim.

(c) A judgment against a trust bank or uninsured bank in receivership taken by default or by collusion before the date the bank was placed in receivership may not be considered as conclusive evidence of the liability of the bank to the judgment creditor or of the amount of damages to which the judgment creditor is entitled. A judgment against the bank entered after the date the bank was placed in receivership may not be considered as evidence of liability or of the amount of damages.

(d) (1) The owner of secured trust funds on deposit may file a claim as a creditor against a trust bank or uninsured bank in receivership. The value of the security shall be determined under supervision of the Superior Court by converting the security into money.

(2) The owner of a secured claim against a trust bank or uninsured bank in receivership may surrender the security and file a claim as a general creditor or apply the security to the claim and discharge the claim.

(3) If the owner applies the security and discharges the claim under subdivision (2) of this subsection, any deficiency shall be treated as a claim against the general assets of the bank on the same basis as a claim of an unsecured creditor. The amount of the deficiency shall be determined as provided by subsection (e) of this section, except that if the amount of the deficiency has been adjudicated by a court in a proceeding in which the receiver has had notice and an opportunity to be heard, the court’s decision is conclusive as to the amount.

(4) The value of security held by a secured creditor shall be determined under supervision of the court by converting the security into money according to the terms of the agreement under which the security was delivered to the creditor or by agreement, arbitration, compromise or litigation between the creditor and the receiver.

(e) (1) A claim against a trust bank or uninsured bank in receivership based on an unliquidated or undetermined demand shall be filed within the period for the filing of the claim. The claim may not share in any distribution to claimants until the claim is definitely liquidated, determined and allowed. After the claim is liquidated, determined and allowed, the claim shares ratably with the claims of the same class in all subsequent distributions.

(2) If the receiver in all other respects is in a position to close the receivership proceeding, the proposed closing is sufficient grounds for the rejection of any remaining claim based on an unliquidated or undetermined demand. The receiver shall notify the claimant of the intention to close the proceeding. If the demand is not liquidated or determined before the sixty-first day after the date of the notice, the receiver may reject the claim.

(3) For the purposes of this subsection, a demand is considered unliquidated or undetermined if the right of action on the demand accrued while the trust bank or uninsured bank was placed in receivership and the liability on the demand has not been determined or the amount of the demand has not been liquidated.

(f) (1) Mutual credits and mutual debts shall be set off and only the balance allowed or paid, except that a set-off may not be allowed in favor of a person if: (A) The obligation of a trust bank or uninsured bank to the person on the date the bank was placed in receivership did not entitle the person to share as a claimant in the assets of the bank; (B) the obligation of the bank to the person was purchased by or transferred to the person after the date the bank was placed in receivership or for the purpose of increasing set-off rights; or (C) the obligation of the person or the bank is as a trustee or fiduciary.

(2) Upon request, the receiver shall provide a person with an accounting statement identifying each debt that is due and payable. A person who owes a trust bank or uninsured bank an amount that is due and payable against which the person asserts set-off of mutual credits that may become due and payable from the bank in the future shall promptly pay to the receiver the amount due and payable. The receiver shall promptly refund, to the extent of the person’s prior payment, mutual credits that become due and payable to the person by the bank in receivership.

(g) (1) Not later than six months after the last day permitted for the filing of claims or a later date allowed by the Superior Court, the receiver shall accept or reject in whole or in part each claim filed against a trust bank or an uninsured bank in receivership, except for an unliquidated or undetermined claim governed by subsection (e) of this section. The receiver shall reject a claim if the receiver doubts its validity.

(2) The receiver shall mail written notice to each claimant, specifying the disposition of the person’s claim. If a claim is rejected in whole or in part, the receiver in the notice shall specify the basis for rejection and advise the claimant of the procedures and deadline for appeal.

(3) The receiver shall send each claimant a summary schedule of approved and rejected claims by priority class and notify the claimant: (A) That a copy of a schedule of claims disposition, including only the name of the claimant, the amount of the claim allowed, and the amount of the claim rejected, is available upon request; and (B) of the procedure and deadline for filing an objection to an approved claim.

(h) The receiver of a trust bank or uninsured bank, with the approval of the superior court, shall set a deadline for an objection to an approved claim. On or before that date, a depositor, creditor, other claimant or shareholder of a trust bank or uninsured bank may file an objection to an approved claim. The objection shall be heard and determined by the court. If the objection is sustained, the court shall direct an appropriate modification of the schedule of claims.

(i) The receiver’s rejection of a claim may be appealed to the superior court in which the receivership proceeding of a trust bank or uninsured bank is pending. The appeal shall be filed within three months after the date of service of notice of the rejection. If the appeal is timely filed, review is de novo as if it were an action originally filed in the court, and is subject to the rules of procedure and appeal applicable to civil cases. An action to appeal rejection of a claim by the receiver is separate from the receivership proceeding, and may not be initiated by a claimant intervening in the receivership proceeding. If the action is not timely filed, the action of the receiver is final and not subject to review.

(j) (1) The commissioner shall deposit all money available for the benefit of persons who have not filed a claim and are, according to the bank’s records, depositors and creditors of a trust bank or uninsured bank in receivership in a bank, Connecticut credit union, federal credit union, out-of-state bank that maintains in this state a branch, as defined in § 36a-410, or out-of-state credit union that maintains in this state a branch, as defined in § 36a-435b. The commissioner shall pay the nonclaiming depositors and creditors on demand the undisputed amount, based on the bank’s records, held for their benefit.

(2) The receiver may periodically make a partial distribution to the holders of approved claims if: (A) All objections have been heard and decided as provided by subsection (h) of this section; (B) the time for filing appeals has expired as provided by subsection (i) of this section; (C) money has been made available to provide for the payment of all nonclaiming depositors and creditors in accordance with subdivision (1) of this subsection; and (D) a proper reserve is established for the pro rata payment of: (i) Rejected claims that have been appealed, and (ii) any claims based on unliquidated or undetermined demands governed by subsection (e) of this section.

(3) As soon as practicable after all objections, appeals and claims based on previously unliquidated or undetermined demands governed by subsection (e) of this section have been determined and money has been made available to provide for the payment of all nonclaiming depositors and creditors in accordance with subdivision (1) of this subsection, the receiver shall distribute the assets of a trust bank or uninsured bank in satisfaction of approved claims other than claims asserted in a person’s capacity as a shareholder.