Recently, a bankruptcy court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin upheld the trustee’s objection to a proposed chapter 13 plan that subtracted the tax withholding
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Consistent with the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) broader strategy to reduce the tax gap, the IRS has gradually stepped up activity in the bankruptcy program du
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in EDP Medical Systems Inc. v. United States, 2007 WL 706925 (2d Cir.
To obtain confirmation, a chapter 13 debtor must file all tax returns for all taxable periods ending during the four-year period before the petition date, even if
Are There No Exceptions?
Being a displaced Brit from north of the U.S. border, I frankly don’t have a whole lot to contribute to the Commercial Fraud newsletter on U.S. statutory issues.
A widely held assumption in bankruptcy cases and other litigation is that fraudulent intent cannot be established on a summary judgment motion but may only be found after a full trial on the merits.
Why is it so hard to get straight answers or simple assistance from professionals in the commercial insurance industry during a period of corporate reorganization? A partial answer requires us to start with a broad understanding of how companies buy insurance.
The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York recently decided in In re R.F. Cunningham & Co. Inc., 355 B.R. 408 (Bankr. E.D.N.Y. 2006), in the context of a motion to lift the automatic stay, that a statutory lien under Ohio law was susceptible to being avoided as a secret lien under §544(a)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code.
