A corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of an individual who is or was a director, officer, employee, or agent of the corporation, or who, while a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, manager, partner, trustee, employee, or agent of another entity, or of an employee benefit plan or other enterprise, against liability asserted against or incurred in that capacity or arising from the status as a director, officer, manager, employee, or agent, whether or not the corporation would have power to indemnify against the same liability under KRS § 271B.8-510 or 271B.8-520.
Effective: July 15, 2010

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 271B.8-570

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Corporation: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Employee: includes an officer but not a director. See Kentucky Statutes 271B.1-400
  • Entity: includes a domestic or foreign corporation. See Kentucky Statutes 271B.1-400
  • Individual: means a natural person and includes the estate of an incompetent or deceased individual. See Kentucky Statutes 271B.1-400
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

History: Repealed and reenacted 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 51, sec. 66, effective July 15, 2010.
— Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 137, sec. 66, effective June 26, 2007. — Created 1988
Ky. Acts ch. 23, sec. 101, effective January 1, 1989.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/15/2010). 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 51, sec. 183, provides, “The specific textual provisions of Sections 1 to 178 of this Act which reflect amendments made to those sections by 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 137 shall be deemed effective as of June 26, 2007, and those provisions are hereby made expressly retroactive to that date, with the remainder of the text of those sections being unaffected by the provisions of this section.”