April 22, 2025
Following the Supreme Court’s Morgan v. Sundance, the appeals court interpreted an arbitration agreement like any other contract, with no policy favoring arbitration over litigation.
March 17, 2025
Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein said it was ‘nonsense’ to argue that ‘a Bankruptcy Court lacks authority to permit survivor statements to be made to the Court and to the Bishop.’
February 4, 2025
When third parties sued a trust created by a confirmed chapter 11 plan, Judge Garrity declined to invent any new exceptions to the Barton doctrine.
January 30, 2025
For a sale ‘free and clear,’ nondebtors can be enjoined from suing.
October 10, 2024
When a DIP sues a former officer, the bankruptcy ‘exception’ in a D&O policy provides coverage when the ‘insured vs. insured’ exclusion would otherwise deny coverage.
July 29, 2024
The Tenth Circuit BAP inferred a requirement of justifiable reliance on nondischargeability for actual fraud.
March 22, 2024
A creditor’s actual knowledge that a bankruptcy case exists isn’t enough for the creditor to be bound by a plan injunction, Delaware’s Judge Silverstein says.
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October 12, 2023
The insured’s bankruptcy can allow other claimants to recover a preference from one claimant who drew down the policy limit.
October 10, 2023
A secured lender need not obtain a deficiency judgment to retain a claim against an insurer for a shortfall in a bankruptcy sale, Bankruptcy Judge Grossman says.
August 22, 2023
Looking beyond the label assigned by the Affordable Care Act, three circuits have now held that failure to pay the ‘individual mandate’ for purchasing health insurance gave rise to a tax entitled to priority in bankruptcy.