FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2020, record photo, a statue stands extracurricular the Boy Scouts of America office successful Irving, Texas. One of the superior insurers of the Boy Scouts of America announced Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021, that it has reached a tentative colony statement with the enactment and with attorneys representing tens of thousands of men who accidental they were molested arsenic youngsters decades agone by scoutmasters and others. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2020, record photo, a statue stands extracurricular the Boy Scouts of America office successful Irving, Texas. One of the superior insurers of the Boy Scouts of America announced Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021, that it has reached a tentative colony statement with the enactment and with attorneys representing tens of thousands of men who accidental they were molested arsenic youngsters decades agone by scoutmasters and others. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File) (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

DOVER, Del. – A cardinal proceeding earlier a Delaware justice could find whether the Boy Scouts of America mightiness beryllium capable to look from bankruptcy aboriginal this year.

The Boy Scouts, based successful Irving, Texas, sought bankruptcy extortion successful February 2020 amid an onslaught of lawsuits by men who said they were sexually abused arsenic children.

Tuesday’s proceeding was scheduled much than a period ago. It was called for the justice to see whether the Boy Scouts' mentation of a reorganization plan, filed successful July, contained capable item for maltreatment claimants to marque informed decisions connected whether to judge it.

But respective cardinal stakeholders are asking the justice to postpone the proceeding for astatine slightest 3 weeks to let them clip to reappraisal and record objections to a caller program that was filed conscionable days ago. The hold is being sought by the authoritative victims committee, on with respective instrumentality firms and security companies.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Laura Selber Silverstein indispensable determine whether to assistance the postponement oregon proceed with the proceeding connected a disclosure connection outlining the BSA's reorganization plan. That proceeding could past respective days.

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Two of the large changes successful the caller program are colony agreements involving 1 of the organization’s large insurers, The Hartford, and its erstwhile largest unit sponsor, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known arsenic the Mormon church.

The Hartford has agreed to wage $787 million into a money for intersexual maltreatment claimants, and the Mormon religion has agreed to lend $250 million. In exchange, some entities would beryllium released from immoderate further liability involving kid enactment maltreatment claims filed by men who said they were molested decades agone by scoutmasters and others.

The authoritative victims committee describes the settlements arsenic “grossly unfair.”

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