News Regarding the Boy Scouts Revised Bankruptcy Plan
Hurley McKenna & Mertz discusses the Boy Scouts Bankruptcy Plan.
The Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy after facing thousands of sexual abuse claims and has proposed a Chapter 11 reorganization plan to the Court that will set up a compensation trust for men who were abused as children.
The experts at Hurley McKenna & Mertz represent more than 4,500 former Boy Scouts who are victims of sexual abuse, and secured the largest single perpetrator settlement in the history of the BSA. Please reference the resources below to learn more about the BSA Plan and its impact on victims who have filed claims.
Clients: Please see the top Boy Scouts bankruptcy news below. If you have additional questions about your case, email us with your question at BSAClaimsForms@hurley-law.com.
NEW: View answers to your frequently asked questions here.
NEW: View the Tort Claimants’ Committee’s latest updates on the Boy Scouts Plan here.
Media Inquiries: Please contact Mark McKenna.
In the News: See what our expert attorneys are saying in major publications.
- ABC News: Boy Scouts’ bankruptcy creates rift with religious partners
- Newsweek: Some Churches End Boy Scout Work as Bankruptcy Deal Leaves Them Liable for Abuse Lawsuits
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Top Boy Scout Bankruptcy News
- TOWN HALL MEETING FOR HMM CLIENTS IN THE BSA BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING: Status of the Trust Distribution Plan, Awards and Claim Payout Procedures
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2024 TOWN HALL MEETING: Status of the BSA Bankruptcy Trust Distribution Plan, Awards and Claim Payouts
- BSA Bankruptcy Update – How You Can Help HMM Support Your Claim
- “The Church has been Concealing the Identities of Hundreds of Abusers”
- BSA Tort Claimants Committee Recommends That Survivors Who Rejected The Boy Scouts Prior Plan Change Their Vote To Accept The Revised And Improved BSA Plan
- Hurley McKenna & Mertz Spearheads Negotiations Resulting in BSA’s Revised and Improved Plan of Reorganization
- Former BSA Youth Protection Director Tells Congress That Children Still Unsafe In Scouts BSA Programs.
- BSA Chartering Organizations Have a Responsibility to Contribute to the Victims’ Compensation Fund
- Boy Scouts of America Releases the Victims’ Fifth Amended Compensation Plan
- Hurley McKenna & Mertz Leads the Fight Against the Boy Scouts Unfair Preliminary Reorganization Plan
A Sample of Our Successes
- $89,100,000Sexual Abuse
Record settlement from the Boy Scouts of America for 16 childhood sexual abuse victims of notorious Boy Scout troop leader Thomas Hacker. HMM uncovered evidence that the Boy Scouts were aware of Hacker’s arrest in Indiana for sexual assault and battery of boys as early as February 1970. Yet because of the Boy Scouts of America’s inadequate screening system, Hacker resurfaced as a scoutmaster in Illinois later in the 1970s and continued molesting boys for the better part of two decades after that at a Boy Scout Troop based in Oak Lawn, Illinois and throughout the Chicago area.
- $41,149,942Medical Malpractice
Record setting 2024 jury verdict against OSF HealthCare System on behalf of 72-year-old man with atrial fibrillation [AFib] who suffered a catastrophic stroke because Cardiologists and Advanced Practice Nurses failed to monitor the patient’s INR levels or increase his dose of the anticoagulant medication Coumadin to prevent cardioembolic stroke.
- $31,723,388.20Medical Malpractice
Settlement in 2023 for a child with a brain injury, cerebral palsy and spastic quadriplegia who was injured at birth. The child’s mother was 36 weeks pregnant and went to a Chicago-area hospital’s emergency room in 2016 with headache, shortness of breath and protein in her urine, which are signs and symptoms of preeclampsia. Hospital emergency department personnel failed to transfer the mother to the labor and delivery unit for continuous electronic fetal monitoring and expeditious delivery of the baby, as required by the standard of care for the treatment of preeclampsia. Instead, hospital personnel transferred the mother to the hospital’s cardiac catheterization lab. When the attending obstetrician delivered the child by cesarean section approximately ten hours after the mother’s arrival at the hospital, the child was lifeless and had no pulse due to prolonged loss of oxygen, with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, APGAR scores of 0/0/0/0, and requiring twenty-five minutes of resuscitation.
- $31,250,000Product Liability
Record settlement where a defective product resulted in a severe and permanent injury.
