Bankruptcy Blogs

The 20% Solution: Risk Retention Will Help Reprivatize Mortgages

07/05/11

The proposed definition of QRM would restore investors' trust in home loan standards. Don't we want to wean the market off federal support?

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Is Asbestos Defense Anti-Consumer?

07/05/11

The Boston Herald has a piece questioning Elizabeth Warren's consumer bona fides because she worked on a 2008 Supreme court appeal for Traveller's Insurance involving the validity of Traveller's settlements for asbestos liability relating to Johns Manville's bankruptcy in the 1970s.

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The Daily Docket: Dodgers Seek Selig’s Testimony

07/05/11

The Los Angeles Dodgers are demanding that Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig and a slew of other officials submit testimony as part of the team’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review story here.

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The Bold and the Beautiful and the Bankrupt: Hunter Tylo files for bankruptcy in Las Vegas

07/05/11

Soap opera star Hunter Tylo has filed for bankruptcy.  It appears she has some medical debt and from the list of creditors, for more information on her creditors see this article about Hunter Tylo’s bankruptcy.  This case shows like the other celebrity ones that the rich and famous also have money problems.  Read the documents: [...]

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Minnesota charter school Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy shuts down and files Chapter 7 bankruptcy with no assets at all

07/05/11

In a rare filing for a charter school Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy a charter school south of Saint Paul, Minnesota, filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy.  The filing is interesting because it lists no assets at all, not a penny, no furniture, no nothing.  The school has a website but no domain name is listed in the [...]

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Consumer Protection Strategies in Credit and Insurance: Why the disconnect?

07/04/11

Many thanks to Credit Slips for inviting me to guest blog over the next week or so.  My hope during this time is to explore what I view as an important puzzle in consumer protection regulation: why it is that consumer protection strategies in insurance and credit are so different in the United States.  

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Bankruptcy Tweets for July 2011 - Part I

07/04/11

Below are my twitter posts since my last post of June 27 of 41 recent posts of bankruptcy cases and commentary, along with 6 other items of general interest. 

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Bankruptcy Tweets for July 2011 - Part I

07/04/11

Below are my twitter posts since my last post of June 27 of 41 recent posts of bankruptcy cases and commentary, along with 6 other items of general interest. 

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