Consumer

This panel will explore industry trends and commonalities between the parallel issues of failing health care systems and debtors bankrupted by medical debt. The panelists will discuss and debate what could happen when these two debtor groups overwhelm the bankruptcy system, the challenges that health care debtors, consumer debtors and insurance payors face today, and how practitioners across various insolvency disciplines involved in these industries can plan for the future with these trends on the horizon.

What is a DSO, and what does that bankruptcy provision in every Property Settlement Agreement mean, anyway? What debts are dischargeable, and if it is called “support,” is it truly support? Does the stay need to be modified post-petition in a chapter 13, and what do you do when a current chapter 13 client ends up in divorce court? This panel will address these questions and more, including the differences between chapters 7 and 13, and what actions are stayed.

Join ABI Editor-at-Large Bill Rochelle for this fun and informative session as he and several bankruptcy judges discuss circuit splits and hot topics on important bankruptcy issues. An attendee favorite!

This session will highlight particularly interesting case law developments to date since 2022, and their impacts on bankruptcy law and practice.

This panel will review the largest issues facing consumer practitioners today, including filing numbers, student loan legislation, proofs of claim and much more.