Volume 52
Public Law 75–34
To amend the Act authorizing the Attorney General to compromise suits on certain contracts of insurance.
Approved February 24, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Act authorizing the Attorney General to compromise suits on certain contracts of insurance.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the sixth paragraph
Veterans’ Administration.
following the subtitle “Veterans’ Administration” in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1934, approved June 16, 1933 (48 Stat. 283, eh. 101), be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:
“That the Attorney General of the United States is hereby authorized
Compromise judgments; yearly, renewable term insurance.
to agree to a judgment to be rendered by the presiding judge of the United States court having jurisdiction of the case, pursuant to compromise approved by the Attorney General upon the recommendation of the United States attorney charged with the defense, upon such terms and for sums within the amount claimed to be payable, in any suit brought under the provisions of the World War
Veterans’ Act, 1924, as amended, on a contract of yearly, renewable term insurance which may be now pending or hereafter may be filed, and the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs is hereby authorized and directed to make payments in accordance with any such judgment: Provided, That the Comptroller General of the United States is
Provisos.
Credit allowed in accounts for payments made.
hereby authorized and directed to allow credit in the accounts of disbursing officers of the Veterans’ Administration for all payments of insurance made in accordance with any such judgment: Provided further, That all such judgments shall constitute final settlement of
Judgments to constitute final settlement of claim.
the claim and no appeal therefrom shall be authorized,”
Approved, February 24, 1938.