News Topic: WSJcomBankruptcyBeat

Another $1.2 billion could soon be divided among Bernard Madoff’s cheated investors if a bankruptcy judge approves that payout at a court hearing scheduled for Wednesday. The money won’t flow until Judge Stuart Bernstein of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in ... Read full article

Fidelity Management & Research said Thursday it would back Energy Future Holdings Corp.’s chapter 11 bankruptcy plan, a big step for the case. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal . ... Read full article

A Justice Department watchdog and several creditors of Caesars Entertainment Operating Co. want to delay the casino unit’s restructuring. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

The Caesars Entertainment Corp.'s Caesars Palace hotel in Las Vegas ... Read full article

Drug-testing laboratory Millennium Health LLC filed for chapter 11 protection a month after agreeing to settle allegations of billing the federal government for unnecessary tests.Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal . ... Read full article

Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press The fresh start of bankruptcy isn’t available to those who have defrauded their creditors, but how do you define fraud? ... Read full article

A bankruptcy judge said General Motors Co.   can face punitive damages on defective ignition switch lawsuits in certain circumstances.Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal . ... Read full article

Florida-based NextEra Energy Inc. is circling Energy Future Holdings Corp. as it tries to implement its $42 billion debt-repayment plan.Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee will appear in a federal courtroom Monday to ask a judge to formally wind down its bankruptcy, which has dragged out over nearly five years and provoked bitter legal battles that went as high as the U.S. Supreme ... Read full article

Coal producer  Walter Energy , Inc. is headed to a January bankruptcy auction with an offer from senior lenders to cancel or take on $1.25 billion of the company’s debts to set a floor price for the competition, Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review story in ... Read full article

Paul E. Harner has joined law firm Ballard Spahr as a partner with the restructuring practice. Mr. ... Read full article

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GT Advanced Technologies Inc. , a former sapphire supplier to Apple Inc. , reached a new accord on a $439 million with the iPhone maker. ... Read full article

Bahamas-based Baha Mar Ltd. got a receiver to help bring the troubled resort project to completion.Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal . ... Read full article

Yoav Shapira and Lisa Redpenning, both from Boston, display their tickets for Super Bowl XLIX bought at the NFL ticket exchange Jan. ... Read full article

Newspaper publisher Freedom Communications Inc. filed for chapter 11 protection for the second time and plans to sell its business to investors. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal . ... Read full article

Hearings on Energy Future Holdings Corp.’s plan to rework some $42 billion in debt begin next week in a Wilmington, Del., courtroom. On Tuesday, lawyers for Energy Future will go before Judge Christopher Sontchi to prove that the company’s plan is both ... Read full article

Physical-therapy chain Team Work Ready Inc. filed for bankruptcy after its finances got tangled in a criminal investigation into alleged health-care fraud, tying up roughly $220,000 kept in its bank accounts. ... Read full article