A New Jersey bankruptcy judge said Wednesday he would delay the confirmation of a Roman Catholic diocese's Chapter 11 plan at the behest of insurers blindsided by the debtor's abandonment of a deal that would have capped their payouts for clergy sex abuse survivors at $30 million.
An executive for an embattled multistate nursing home chain must face employees' proposed class allegations that they paid premiums for health, dental and supplemental insurance that was never provided, a New Jersey federal judge ruled Wednesday while at the same time releasing him from consumer protection claims in the lawsuit.
The Chapter 11 case of Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder liability unit doesn't preclude a planned fraud lawsuit alleging J&J concealed evidence in prior litigation that its signature product was tainted with asbestos, a New Jersey bankruptcy judge ruled Tuesday.
A split Delaware Supreme Court on Monday backed a $20 million victory for a demolition company's former owners in a dispute over a New Jersey bridge job, ruling they gave timely notice to the company's new owners that a claim might be forthcoming.
A New Jersey bankruptcy judge ruled Thursday that the names of clergymen accused of sexual abuse can appear on the public Chapter 11 docket of a Roman Catholic diocese forced into insolvency by a barrage of clergy abuse lawsuits, saying only the names of the survivors are private.