House Bill 4841

    Florida House of Representatives - 1998                HM 4841

        By Representative Lippman






  1                          House Memorial

  2         A memorial to the President and Congress of the

  3         United States, urging the President and

  4         Congress to seek certain commitments from the

  5         governments of Poland, Hungary, and the Czech

  6         Republic regarding payment of insurance

  7         benefits owed by the state-owned insurance

  8         companies of these countries to victims of the

  9         Nazis and to the beneficiaries and heirs of

10         these victims.

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12         WHEREAS, the issue of insurance benefits owed by the

13  state-owned insurance companies of Poland, Hungary, and the

14  Czech Republic to victims of the Nazis and to the

15  beneficiaries and heirs of these victims should be raised with

16  these governments as a result of the actions taken by their

17  Communist predecessor regimes in nationalizing foreign

18  insurance companies and confiscating their assets in the

19  aftermath of World War II, and

20         WHEREAS, a commitment should be sought from the

21  governments of these countries to provide a full accounting of

22  the total value of insurance company assets that were seized

23  by their Communist predecessor regimes and to share all

24  documents relevant to unpaid insurance claims that are in

25  their possession, and

26         WHEREAS, a commitment should be sought from the

27  governments of these countries to contribute to the payment of

28  these unpaid insurance claims in an amount that reflects the

29  present value of the assets seized by their Communist

30  predecessor regimes and for which no compensation had

31  previously been paid, NOW, THEREFORE,

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1998                HM 4841

    94-244-98






  1  Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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  3         That the President and Congress of the United States

  4  are requested to seek commitments from the governments of

  5  Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic regarding payment of

  6  insurance benefits owed by the state-owned insurance companies

  7  of these countries to victims of the Nazis and to the

  8  beneficiaries and heirs of these victims, and in particular to

  9  account for the value of insurance company assets that were

10  seized by their Communist predecessor regimes, to share all

11  documents in their possession relevant to these unpaid

12  insurance claims, and to contribute to the payment of these

13  unpaid insurance claims.

14         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be

15  dispatched to the President of the United States, to the

16  President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the

17  United States House of Representatives, and to each member of

18  the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.

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