Bankruptcy - Legislation & jurisprudence
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Medical bankruptcy in the United States, 2007: results of a national study.

4 Jun 2009 BACKGROUND: Our 2001 study in 5 states found that medical problems contributed to at least 46.2% of all bankruptcies. Since then, health costs and the numbers of un- and underinsured have increased, and bankruptcy laws have tightened. METHODS: We ... Read more...

Discounting the debtors will not make medical bankruptcy disappear.

26 Feb 2006 David Dranove and Michael Millenson seem determined to deny that financial fallout from illness pushes middle-class families into bankruptcy. Anxious to erase the headline that three-quarters of U.S. medical bankrupts had health insurance at the ... Read more...

COBRA notice--bankruptcy--stay. Buchanan v. Golden Casting Corporation Hourly Health Benefit Plan.

30 Dec 2005 In an absence of special circumstances, the automatic stay that protects an employer from suit while its bankruptcy is pending does not apply to an action brought against its employee welfare benefit plan under ERISA because the plan, not the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Bankruptcy - Legislation & jurisprudence'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Medical bankruptcy in the United States, 2007: results of a national study. 4 Jun 2009
• Get sick, get out: the medical causes of home mortgage foreclosures. 30 Dec 2007
• Directors win Granada case. Board let off hook a harbinger for other bankruptcies? 11 Aug 2007
• [Fee charges are fully to be claimed] 31 Jul 2007
• Rolling the real-estate dice. N.Y. hospital selling choice location post-bankruptcy. 17 Feb 2007
• Discounting the debtors will not make medical bankruptcy disappear. 26 Feb 2006
• [Bankruptcy attorney reports about increasing workload. Number of bankrupt medical practices increases] 21 Feb 2006
• Off the hook, for now. Judge rules board not liable in hospital's failure. 21 Jan 2006
• COBRA notice--bankruptcy--stay. Buchanan v. Golden Casting Corporation Hourly Health Benefit Plan. 30 Dec 2005
• Newest patient bankruptcy questions and answers. 30 Dec 2005
• Adjusting to new bankruptcy law. Hospitals can expect surge in bad debt, fewer reasons to file for Chapter 11. 19 Nov 2005
• The new bankruptcy code: what it means for nephrology practices. 30 Oct 2005
• Bankruptcy reform: what it means to you. 31 Aug 2005
• New bankruptcy rules leave IRAs mostly safe and sound. 30 Aug 2005
• Waiting to collect. Bankruptcy highlights tensions. 18 Jun 2005
• Bankruptcy. Money used for HIV drugs leaves nondischargeable debt. 20 Apr 2005
• Calif. ordered to close 1, open 1. 9 Apr 2005
• Broke and banished. Pending bill would make exclusion by CMS easier. 2 Apr 2005
• Reaching out. Physician investors hope to save Atlanta hospital. 26 Mar 2005
• Seeing red. California hospitals vulnerable to bankruptcy. 26 Mar 2005

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Technical information about 'Bankruptcy'

Definition: The state of legal insolvency with assets taken over by judicial process so that they may be distributed among creditors.

Descriptor UI: D016361

Alternative terms: Bankruptcy; Bankruptcies; Financial Insolvency; Financial Insolvencies; Insolvencies, Financial; Insolvency, Financial;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N03.219.463.045;

History Note: 91