Boy Scouts of America

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Case Number:

1:20-bk-10343

Court:

Delaware

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March 28, 2023
Boy Scouts Ch. 11 Plan Upheld On Appeal

A Delaware federal judge upheld the Chapter 11 plan of the Boy Scouts of America on Tuesday, saying he found no fault with a bankruptcy court's order channeling more than 82,000 claims of childhood sexual abuse to a $2.5 billion settlement trust, and that the appealing insurance companies had not shown any clear error in the plan's confirmation.
March 15, 2023
Boy Scouts Ch. 11 Objectors Slam $4M Funding Bid

Insurers and victims groups challenging the Boy Scouts of America's Chapter 11 plan are balking at its proposal to spend nearly $4 million on a settlement trust while their appeal at U.S. District Court is still pending, and are asking a Delaware bankruptcy judge to deny the request.
February 10, 2023
Claimants Say Boy Scouts Ch. 11 Releases Aren't Justified

Sex abuse claimants appealing the Boy Scouts' Chapter 11 plan told a Delaware federal judge Friday that the release of claims against non-debtor third-parties should not have been approved because abuse survivors didn't have their claims paid in full.
February 09, 2023
Insurers Attack Good Faith Of Boy Scouts In Ch. 11 Appeal

Attorneys representing insurers appealing the Chapter 11 plan of the Boy Scouts of America argued Thursday that the plan wasn't proposed in good faith and impermissibly alters the insurers' rights under the policies they issued to the organization to cover sexual abuse liability.
December 21, 2022
Boy Scouts Insurers Slam 'Egregiously Flawed' Ch. 11 Plan

The Boy Scouts of America's Chapter 11 plan "was the result of an egregiously flawed process," insurers that oppose the plan told a Delaware federal judge Wednesday, arguing that the court should overturn a bankruptcy court's confirmation of the plan.
December 08, 2022
Boy Scouts' Ch. 11 Supporters Urge Court To Uphold Plan

The Boy Scouts of America's Chapter 11 plan was proposed in good faith and is fair and equitable to survivors of sexual abuse, its supporters said in court filings Wednesday, urging a Delaware federal court to uphold a bankruptcy court's confirmation of the plan.
November 08, 2022
Boy Scouts Insurers Claim Bad Faith In Ch. 11 Plan

A group of 15 insurers Monday asked a Delaware district judge to overturn the Boy Scouts of America's Chapter 11 plan, saying the Scouts had been "strong-armed" by tens of thousands of dubious sexual abuse claims into granting a windfall to mass tort lawyers at their expense.
October 14, 2022
Alex Jones' Billion-Dollar Penance, Puerto Rico Prunes Debt

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' podcast company is headed toward Chapter 11 mediation after a $965 million defamation damages judgment, Puerto Rico takes another step in restructuring the island's public debt, and the U.S. Supreme Court remanded issues over an increase in trustee fees to the Second Circuit. This is the week in bankruptcy.
October 07, 2022
Boy Scouts Appeals To Be Consolidated, Briefed By December

A Delaware federal judge agreed to consolidate more than a dozen appeals of the Boy Scouts' confirmed Chapter 11 plan Friday, saying he will approve a schedule that would see briefing completed before the end of the year.
September 23, 2022
Boy Scouts Appeals Roll In, Alex Jones Ch. 11 Attys Nixed

More than a dozen insurers commenced appeals of the Boy Scouts of America's confirmed Chapter 11 plan, proposed attorneys and advisers in an Alex Jones-linked bankruptcy were disqualified, and talc injury claimants questioned the good faith of Johnson & Johnson's talc unit in filing for bankruptcy. This is the week in bankruptcy.

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