November 13, 2024
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Wednesday shot down a request to form an official committee for tort claimants in the Chapter 11 of hospital operator Steward Health Care, saying there was no evidence that the unsecured creditors committee wasn't adequately representing the interests of medical malpractice creditors.
November 05, 2024
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved a transition deal between Steward Health Care System and a government health service contractor that canceled its contract with the embattled hospital chain just before it filed for Chapter 11.
November 01, 2024
Rudy Giuliani was recently accused of ignoring subpoenas as two former election workers tried to collect on a $148 million defamation judgment, Steward Health Care creditors have opposed the formation of a tort claimants committee and Chinese exile Miles Guo's $26.5 million New Jersey mansion can be sold in Chapter 11.
October 28, 2024
Former Bankruptcy Judge David R. Jones lost a bid to shield his banking records from a U.S. Trustee's Office probe into his undisclosed romantic relationship with a onetime Jackson Walker LLP partner.
October 25, 2024
A Texas bankruptcy judge said he would approve the sale of seven more of Steward Health Care's hospitals to affiliates of California-based Healthcare Systems of America, including five in Florida and two in Texas.
October 23, 2024
A Texas bankruptcy judge Wednesday declined to order the new owner of former Steward Health Care hospitals in Massachusetts to take back changes to nurses' union contracts it assumed under his sale order, saying it wasn't up to him to make the call.
October 08, 2024
Massachusetts officials are asking the Texas bankruptcy judge presiding over Steward Health Care's Chapter 11 proceedings to order the company to maintain medical malpractice and workers' compensation coverage for current and potential claims from its operation of hospitals and medical practices in the Bay State.
October 03, 2024
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Thursday approved national hospital chain Steward Health's sale of three of its Arizona hospitals to regional hospital chain HonorHealth.
October 01, 2024
While a government contractor was within its rights to end a subcontracting agreement with embattled hospital group Steward Health, the Bankruptcy Code's provisions for assignment of contracts mean the debtor can't be compelled to reassign the agreement while in Chapter 11, a Texas bankruptcy judge said Tuesday.
September 30, 2024
Johnson & Johnson and the Justice Department are set to face off in a dispute over whether the consumer products giant was justified in putting a talc unit into bankruptcy in Texas this month, after the U.S. Trustee's Office accused J&J of "forum-shopping" its third Chapter 11 filing.