Rochelle's Daily Wire - Weekly Edition
2024 05 17 RDW
ABI Editor-at-Large Bill Rochelle discusses how the Seventh Circuit recently joined the Ninth and Tenth Circuits in holding that chapter 13 trustees are not paid their fees when cases are dismissed before confirmation.
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Recent abiLIVE Programs
Supreme Court's Purdue Pharma Ruling and the Future of Nonconsensual Releases
The Supreme Court on June 27 ruled in the case of Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P. that the Bankruptcy Code does not authorize a release and injunction that, as part of a plan of reorganization under chapter 11, effectively seek to discharge claims against a nondebtor without the consent of the affected claimants
The Intersection of Mass Torts and Bankruptcy
ABI's Strategies and Perspectives webinar series provides insights into strategies used by industry leaders on major complex bankruptcies. This second presentation in ABI's Strategies and Perspectives series will discuss the Boy Scouts of America chapter 11, a case that demonstrates the complexity and confluence of differing stakeholder positions
The Intersection of Mass Torts and Bankruptcy
ABI's Strategies and Perspectives webinar series provides insights into strategies used by industry leaders on major complex bankruptcies. This second presentation in ABI's Strategies and Perspectives series will discuss the Boy Scouts of America chapter 11, a case that demonstrates the complexity and confluence of differing stakeholder positions
ABI Industry Viewpoints
Failing Health Care Systems & Medical Debt Driving Patients into Bankruptcy
The latest of ABI's Industry Viewpoints series features ABI Editor-at-Large Bill Rochelle talking with January M. Bailey of Prelle Eron & Bailey, PA (Wichita, Kan.) about the commonalities between the parallel issues of failing health care systems (especially in a rural context) and debtors bankrupted by medical debt.
SVB's Collapse and the Banking Crisis
The latest of ABI's Industry Viewpoints series features ABI Editor-at-Large Bill Rochelle talking with Robin Russell of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP (Houston) about Silicon Valley Bank's (SVB) collapse and the current banking crisis
ABI Industry Viewpoints- Third-Party Releases
The latest segment of ABI's features Lydia R. Webb of Gray Reed & McGraw LLP talking with ABI Editor-at-Large Bill Rochelle about chapter 11 trends involving third-party releases
Past Presentations
ABI Commission on Consumer Bankruptcy Final Report
Families struggling with debt due to unemployment, massive student loan or medical bills, divorce, death of a spouse or a combination of these factors may consider bankruptcy in order to achieve a fresh financial start.
What's the Last Word on SBRA?
The long countdown to the Small Business Reorganization Act (SBRA) is over! The law takes effect on February 19. Thousands of struggling small businesses will now have a faster, cheaper and more efficient process for filing Chapter 11
ABI Talks Presents Judge Steven W. Rhodes
The Insolvency 2020 Virtual Summit presents ABI Talks featuring Bankruptcy Judge Steven W. Rhodes
The Conflict in Ukraine - Impact on Capitals, Markets, and Boardrooms
From the pandemic to Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, it seems the world is moving from one extraordinary period to another. The conflict in Europe has generated a maze of rapid legal, political and economic responses from authorities around the globe. Those actions are rippling through capital, markets and boardrooms as businesses grapple with how to respond
ABI Media Webinar - Examining the SCOTUS Decision in Siegel v. Fitzgerald
ABI Media Webinar - Examining the SCOTUS Decision in Siegel v. Fitzgerald