July 30, 2024
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has told a Texas bankruptcy judge that its agreement to pay $30 million to debtor Steward Health Care is designed to help fund operations at the debtor's struggling hospitals while sales are pursued.
July 29, 2024
The Third Circuit threw out Johnson & Johnson's second attempt to use bankruptcy to deal with mass talc litigation, Red Lobster won court approval to solicit votes on its Chapter 11 plan, and a Senate committee voted to approve an investigation into bankrupt Steward Health Care and subpoena its chief executive officer. This is the week in bankruptcy.
July 22, 2024
Steward Health Care has told a Delaware bankruptcy judge it has found buyers for two of the facilities in its first round of hospital sales in its Chapter 11 case, but three others had attracted no qualified bids.
July 03, 2024
The magnitude of the financial troubles plaguing bankrupt hospital operator Steward Health Care has turned the Chapter 11 case into a flash point that should prompt a regulatory overhaul, according to a new report released by advocacy group Private Equity Stakeholder Project.
June 13, 2024
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Thursday ordered Steward Health Care to engage in mediation with its main landlord and other parties to attempt to resolve disputes over how to allocate proceeds from the sales of Steward's hospitals, shortly after the judge gave initial approval to $225 million in bankruptcy financing the company said it desperately needed.
June 03, 2024
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Monday gave Steward Health Care permission to offer a commitment fee to induce a lender to provide it with the financing to see the hospital chain through its Chapter 11 case, while saying the company needs that final commitment soon.
May 20, 2024
Seafood restaurant chain Red Lobster filed for bankruptcy in Florida with $294 million in funded debt after a failed "endless shrimp" promotion, Rudy Giuliani and two election workers who sued him for defamation said they were close to a deal to resolve a lawsuit filed in his bankruptcy case, and a top New Jersey judge disclosed the Garden State was the second-busiest bankruptcy venue over the past year.
May 17, 2024
Steward Health's $9 billion Chapter 11 has come under scrutiny from state attorneys general seeking to uncover why a once-rapidly growing hospital network ended up buried in debt, with authorities taking the unusual tack of turning a special eye toward its former private equity owner Cerberus Capital Management, experts told Law360.
May 17, 2024
A healthcare company that provides services to members of the military and their families sued debtor Steward Health Care on Thursday in Texas bankruptcy court, asking a judge there to declare that the provider properly terminated a subcontract with Steward due to its declining financial state.
May 13, 2024
By the time major U.S. hospital operator Steward Health Care fell into Chapter 11 on May 6, there were plenty of different places for critics to lay the blame: at the feet of its former private equity owners, its lender and landlord, its CEO, a stalled business deal, or the economy itself.