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 U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals repeals its decision and defines that insurance companies can be sued for unpaid claims over the atrocities.

According to “Ermenihaber.am” the federal court of appeals decided that the descendants of Armenian Genocide victims massacred by Ottoman Turks can sue insurance companies for unpaid claims over the atrocities.

The same three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said in August 2009 that lawsuits were barred by a federal government policy against legal reference to the Armenian genocide despite laws in California and 41 other states recognizing the massacre of 1.2 million Armenians that began in 1915 amid the chaotic collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

"There is no clearly established, express federal policy forbidding state references to the Armenian genocide," the judges decided on reconsideration in a 2-1 ruling.

Panorama.am recalls that Turkey has traditionally rejected the mass killings of 1,5 million Armenians carried out early in the 20th century and took the criticism of the West painfully. The Armenian Genocide has been recognized by lots of states. It was first recognized by Uruguay in 1965. Later Russia, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon, Canada, Venezuela, Argentina and the US 42 states did the same. The Armenian Genocide has been recognized also by Vatican, the Council of Europe, the World Council of Churches.