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Opioid Victims' Bankruptcy Hearing; Insurers Resist Boy Scouts Plan
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Good day and welcome to WSJ Pro Bankruptcy's Daily Briefing. It's Friday, March 11. People affected by opioid addiction had their voice in bankruptcy court as OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma nears an exit from chapter 11. Insurance companies argued that Boy Scouts sex-abuse victims will be overpaid under its bankruptcy plan.
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Dede Yoder poses with a photo of her son, Chris, who died of an overdose in 2017 at the age of 21.
PHOTO: SETH WENIG/ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Opioid victims confront Purdue Pharma’s Sacklers in bankruptcy court. Victims of the opioid epidemic confronted the Sackler family members who own Purdue Pharma LP for the first time in bankruptcy court as the drugmaker nears a possible exit from chapter 11 that requires $6 billion in settlement payments from its owners.
Addressing three members of the Sackler family who served on Purdue’s board, more than two dozen people shared stories Thursday in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in White Plains, N.Y. of the disastrous effects physician-prescribed OxyContin.
The family members consented to hearing victims’ impact statements under a proposed settlement between the Sacklers and state attorneys general, which remains subject to a Justice Department appeal.
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“I thought since the doctor prescribed it, it must be OK."
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— Dede Yoder, who said her son, Chris, died in 2017 of an overdose at age 21
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The Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy in 2020.
PHOTO: FRED PROUSER/REUTERS
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PHOTO: GREGORY YETCHMENIZA/MAXPPP/ZUMA PRESS
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Moon nurseries says inability to buy insurance requires chapter 7 bankruptcy. Moon Nurseries Inc., an employee-owned plant marketer with a history dating back to 1767, said it plans to convert its chapter 11 bankruptcy to a chapter 7 liquidation because it is unable to get enough financing for insurance coverage.
Chapter 11 trustee Don Beskrone said Wednesday in a filing in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del., that he can't oversee uninsured assets that include property, equipment and vehicles. Moon grows and sells trees, shrubs and plants from farms near Chesapeake City, Md. Mr. Beskrone said he believes that Moon assets have value, but that without insurance they are "burdensome" to the company and therefore wants court permission to abandon them. — Becky Yerak
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SmartSky's wireless developer seeks chapter 11 after judgment. Wireless Systems Solutions LLC, a North Carolina-based wireless system developer, filed a chapter 11 petition Wednesday with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
The chapter 11 filing came in response to the U.S. District Court's confirmation of a $12 million judgment in a breach-of-contract lawsuit filed against WSS by SmartSky Networks LLC. SmartSky specializes in air-to-ground wireless communication networks and had hired WSS as a contractor in 2018. But the relationship ended up in a dispute, with SmartSky alleging WSS funneled SmartSky's intellectual property and equipment into a WSS affiliate. WSS has denied the accusation and filed a notice to appeal the $12 million judgment. — Akiko Matsuda
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A joint venture of CBRE Group Inc. and the William Warren Group won a bankruptcy auction for GVS Texas Holdings I LLC’s assets for $588.3 million, a price tag about $138 million more than the group’s initial bid. (Bloomberg)
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