Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act of 2025
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 3
- Latest action
- Apr 24, 2025
What it does
The Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act of 2025 would create a new federal private right of action allowing beneficiaries of Holocaust-era insurance policies to sue insurers or related companies in U.S. courts to recover policy proceeds, overriding preemption defenses based on executive foreign policy established in American Insurance Association v. Garamendi. It applies to life, dowry, education, annuity, property, or other insurance policies in effect between January 31, 1933, and December 31, 1945, issued to policyholders domiciled in Nazi-occupied areas or Switzerland. The bill sets a uniform 10-year statute of limitations from enactment, permits treble damages for bad faith, allows…
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