404. The following claims shall have, by preference over the other creditors, priority in the following order:(a) costs and fees of winding-up;
(b) salaries and wages of the employees of the corporation other than a professional corporation, up to three months of unpaid salary;
(c) claims based on the occurrence, before the date of the winding-up, of a risk assumed by the corporation;
(d) the claims of insured persons for recovery of the value of their policies or for a refund of the premiums paid with respect to risks which have ceased to be insured following the winding-up and sums paid into the pension plan of the employees of a corporation other than a professional corporation.