The judge overseeing the Boy Scouts of America’s chapter 11 case terminated a retired bankruptcy judge from his role mediating talks on the youth group’s sex-abuse compensation plan, saying that he had a stake in the outcome and was no longer impartial, WSJ Pro Bankruptcy reported. Kevin Carey, who entered private practice in 2019 after serving 19 years as a bankruptcy judge, can’t continue as a mediator in the Boy Scouts case, according to a ruling issued Tuesday by Judge Laurie Selber Silverstein of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del. Judge Silverstein said that she was concerned that Carey, while serving as one of two court-appointed mediators, had also been named as a special reviewer under the youth group’s chapter 11 plan, tasked with evaluating certain sex-abuse claims and their likely entitlement to insurance coverage after the Boy Scouts leave bankruptcy.
