In re The Personal and Business Insurance Agency

United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

334 F.3d 239 (2003)

Relevant factsFree

PBI's owner and CEO Emil Kesselring submitted fraudulent loan applications to Premium Finance Services in PBI clients' names, kept the proceeds for himself, and had PBI make the loan payments from company funds; after Kesselring was caught and PBI filed Chapter 7, the bankruptcy trustee sought to recover PBI's payments to Premium as fraudulent transfers, but the bankruptcy court and district court agreed with Premium that PBI's payments merely compensated Premium for legitimately owed funds, since Kesselring's debt had become PBI's own debt.

IssueFree

Can a bankruptcy trustee avoid loan payments made by a corporate debtor if an agent of the corporation obtained the loans fraudulently?

Holding & reasoning

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