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A federal judge has upheld the Boy Scouts of America's $2.4 billion bankruptcy plan, clearing a legal challenge brought by insurance companies and abuse claimants.
Attorneys for the Boy Scouts of America are asking a Delaware judge to approve an $850 million agreement that is the foundation of the group's plan to emerge from bankruptcy.
A federal appeals court largely upheld the Boy Scouts of America’s multibillion-dollar bankruptcy plan to resolve claims of childhood sexual abuse, allowing the youth group to continue to ...
A Delaware judge on Tuesday refused to delay a key hearing that could determine whether the Boy Scouts of America can emerge from bankruptcy later this year with a reorganization plan that would ...
A federal district court judge has upheld the approval of a $2.4 billion bankruptcy reorganization plan aimed at resolving tens of thousands of child sexual abuse claims against the Boy Scouts of ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit partially remanded the Boy Scouts' bankruptcy plan Tuesday, determining recent Supreme Court precedent required a more explicit protection of ...
The cost of compensating men who were sexually abused in the Boy Scouts of America has reached over $7 billion, double the amount forecast in the youth group’s bankruptcy plan. The figure doesn ...
Third Circuit rejects sex abuse victims appeal of Boy Scouts bankruptcy deal Lamenting that no amount of money could ever outweigh “the abuse claimants have suffered,” the court shot down the appeal ...
The Boy Scouts’ plan, confirmed in 2022, included a $2.5 billion trust to resolve over 82,000 sexual abuse claims. A key piece was a $1.6 billion insurance policy buyback—funded by insurers in ...
In the months leading up to argument over the Boy Scouts of America's reorganization plan before the Third Circuit, questions about third-party releases in bankruptcy have been addressed by a ...
Roiling headlines in the last couple of years were the bankruptcy filings of the corporations Purdue Pharma and the national organization of Boy Scouts of America (now called Scouting America).
Hoping to contain a growing deluge of sexual-abuse lawsuits, the Boy Scouts of America took shelter in bankruptcy court Tuesday, filing for Chapter 11 protection that will let it keep operating ...