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Is Your Work Comp Insurer Broke and Belly Up?

On April 19, 2013, S &C Claims Services, Inc., sent a letter to all injured workers insured by Builders Insurance Company that their checks due that week wouldn't be sent as scheduled. A Las Vegas District Court ordered the...more

Argument Report: What Happens When a Workers' Comp Excess Insurer Goes Bankrupt?

Our reports on the civil oral arguments of the Illinois Supreme Court's November term continue with Skokie Castings, Inc. v. Illinois Insurance Guaranty Fund. ...more

When Is a Workers Comp Claim Not a Workers Comp Claim?

Our preview of the civil cases on the Illinois Supreme Court's November oral argument docket continues with Skokie Castings, Inc. v. Illinois Insurance Guaranty Fund. ...more

New Chapter 7 Means Testing Figures Effective November 1, 2012

New means test figures make it more difficult to qualify for Chapter 7 bankruptcy....more

Lumbermens Enters Rehabilitation: What Are the Consequences for Its Policyholders?

Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Company and American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Company (part of the Lumbermens Mutual Group and formerly known as Kemper) (“Lumbermens”), after years of struggling financially under the...more

In re ArchBrook Laguna Holdings LLC

Debtors' Motion for Entry of Interim and Final Orders (A) Authorizing, but not Directing, Debtors (I) to Pay Certain Prepetition...

For other documents from this bankruptcy case, please visit: http://www.chapter11cases.com/ArchBrook-Laguna-Holdings-LLC_c_27153.html...more

Helfand Highlights

Helfand Highlights Newsletter from January 2011...more

USPS Heading Towards Bankruptcy

If the United States Postal Service (USPS) were an ordinary private company, it would have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy already. With the massive drop of about 6 billion in mails, especially from first class, they lost...more

Bankruptcy and Nevada Workers' Comp Benefits

I asked local bankruptcy attorney Sam Benevento to provide an answer to the question: Will filing a bankruptcy affect your workers’ compensation claim? Here's Sam's answer.... Please see full article below for more...more