The health care industry is one of the most regulated industries with extensive federal and state governmental oversight. For instance, the industry is largely financed by monies paid under the Medicaid and Medicare programs, which require health care facilities receiving these monies to submit cost reports to federal and state governments that substantiate the monies received.
Over the past few years, we have all witnessed the collapse of many large fraudulent investment schemes.
In this still-troubled economy, the majority of chapter 11 cases in the small- and mid-sized markets continue to lead straight into chapter 11 liquidation and/or 3
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, on October 19, 2010 corrected a bankruptcy court’s calculation of a secured lender group’s superpriority administrative claim more than two years after consummation of the debtors’ chapter 11 reorganization plan. [1] In doing so, the court reconciled the rationale for giving secured lenders “adequate p
Although a wealth of case law has found pre-petition bans on bankruptcy filings to be unenforceable as a matter of public policy, a recent unpublished decision from the Tenth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (BAP) upheld a pre-petition ban included as an amendment to an operating agreement. [1] The debtor, DB Capital Holdings LLC, was
Under § 503(b)(9) of the Bankruptcy Code, trade creditors are granted an administrative-priority claim for the value of goods that they had sold and delivered to the debtor in the ordinary course of the debtor’s business, and the debtor had received within 20 days of its bankruptcy filing.
Many turnaround experts believe that the key to fixing a distressed manufacturing company requires quickly turning assets, including idle factories or other underutilized facilities, into cash while simultaneously reducing expenses. However, selling a factory may not always be the best way to obtain value or minimize the costs associated with that asset.
There currently exists a split as to whether goods delivered within 20 days of a filing that qualify as §503(b)(9) administrative expenses (“20-day claims” or “20-day goods”) may also serve as new value to defend a preference under § 547(c)(4). On Jan. 6, 2010, Hon.
