A Texas appeals court reversed a lower-court ruling making the Life Partners Inc.’s life-settlement policies now regulated under state securities laws, which had previously found the policies didn’t qualify.
Life Partners Holdings buys the rights to death benefits from the policyholder in exchange for a lump-sum payment.
The State of Texas accused Life Partners Holdings Inc. and other affiliates of fraud in connection with the sale of securities. Texas is seeking an injunction blocking the sale of the life-settlement policies to Texans.
Justice David Puryear, in Austin wrote, “This case considers whether Life Partners’ business practices constitute the sale of securities under Texas law, and no binding determination on that matter has been previously made.”
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