4th Circuit Panel Hears Arguments In Appeals Over Insurance Bribery Convictions

Mealey's (December 14, 2021, 11:09 AM EST) -- RICHMOND, Va. — Days before a Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Dec. 8 heard oral arguments in a multinational insurance and reinsurance management company’s founder and a company consultant’s challenge to their convictions related to a $2 million bribery scheme, the government filed a notice of supplemental authority asserting that four recent decisions support its arguments, and the appellants countered that those cases do not refute their arguments or can be distinguished....