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Corporations Insuring Employees' Lives, E. Ralph Cotham, Iv
Corporations Insuring Employees' Lives, E. Ralph Cotham, Iv
Vanderbilt Law Review
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals' in 1959 reversed a tax court holding that a life insurance contract taken out by a corporation to insure an employee's life was a wagering contract because neither the corporation nor the beneficiary possessed an insurable interest in the employee's life and that the proceeds were thus not excludible as an amount received "under a life insurance contract." In 1964 the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a federal district court's judgment entered on a jury's verdict that a corporation, which was both owner and the beneficiary of a life insurance policy, had no …