ABSTRACT
The insurers were becoming increasingly aware that both the articles of the Sevres Treaty and the ongoing legal battle over the Lusitania could not warrant their claim of perpetrator liability. The French insurance company concluded that injury to persons or loss of lives, as in the case of the Lusitania, did not include payments of life policy benefits as "losses." Union-Vie explicitly requested from the French government to call for the recovery of life policy benefit payments it made on the lives of thousands of Greeks massacred during the early Kemalist period. The Kemalists showed a degree of sophistication by attaching qualifications to their acts of wanton killings, such as "capital punishments," and "punishments rendered by virtue of judgments". These fallacies designed to cover the Nationalist's genocidal campaigns were exposed in no uncertain terms by the Union-Vie: Article 6 of policies authorizes to lapse the policy through loss of life due to judicial condemnation.
