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accession: "0001437749-23-011376"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001395585"
company_name: "First Trinity Financial CORP"
filed_at: "2023-04-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-16T08:41:20.671489+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# First Trinity board waives Code of Conduct for CEO over three loan participations

## Summary
- Board approved waiver on April 21, 2023, for CEO Gregg E. Zahn regarding three loan participation agreements.
- Loan participations were with a company mortgage loan originator but in a different business segment.
- Board determined lack of prior notice may have violated Code's conflict-of-interest disclosure provision, but waived any violation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-23-011376
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001395585
- company_name: First Trinity Financial CORP
- filed_at: 2023-04-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.05, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1395585/000143774923011376/0001437749-23-011376-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1395585/000143774923011376/ftfc20230425_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-23-011376.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  First Trinity Financial CORP: The Board of Directors approved a waiver of the Code of Conduct for the CEO regarding three loan participation agreements, determining that any possible violation was waived (effective 2023-04-21).
  - Change: code of ethics
  - Effective: 2023-04-21
  source text: On April 21, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of First Trinity Financial Corporation (the “Company”) approved a waiver of the Company’s Code of Conduct (the “Code”) with respect to certain actions by its Chief Executive Officer, Gregg E. Zahn, which pertained to three loan participation agreements made by him with one of the Company’s mortgage loan originators.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1395585/000143774923011376/0001437749-23-011376-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.