Creditors are entitled to ‘default interest’ when the debtor is solvent.

Supreme Court to resolve a circuit split by deciding whether a change in the status quo must occur before the automatic stay is violated.

Insurance companies must nail down the treatment of performance bonds before plan confirmation.

Ninth Circuit abjures bright lines in favor of a flexible approach to defining recoupment.

Courts are split over the effect on claims discharged in chapter 7 if the debtor converts the case to chapter 13.

Agreeing to bidding procedures can waive the right to make the Section 1111(b) election, Judge Hoffman says.

The Seventh Circuit uses broad equitable powers to prevent one member of a class from receiving a settlement when appealing an issue applicable to the entire class.

Third Circuit’s Judge Bibas says that courts use the wrong nomenclature when they say that creditors lack standing to pursue claims belonging to the estate. It’s a question of statutory authority, he said, not standing.

On an issue with no appellate authority, a Delaware district judge rules that federal income taxes are administrative claims if filing occurs before the year’s end.

Reclamation creditors no longer have liens or administrative claims if a secured lender sucks up all the value in reclaimed goods.