A group of personal injury firms representing Boy Scouts of America sex abuse claimants lost their appeal of a bankruptcy court decision over $21 million in legal fees.
The Coalition of Abused Scouts for Justice’s contributions weren’t substantial enough to meet the legal standard for the Boy Scouts’ bankruptcy estate to pay its bills incurred through the the lengthy Chapter 11 case, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held Friday.
The coalition included several thousand former scouts, but it was formed and largely run by personal injury firms, which hired bankruptcy counsel at Brown Rudnick and a ...