Insurer’s Trustee: Claim Ruling Over Tax Obligations To IRS Should Be Upheld

Mealey's (February 25, 2020, 3:08 PM EST) -- WILMINGTON, Del. — In a Feb. 14 appellee brief, the Chapter 7 trustee for an insurer and its subsidiaries asks a Delaware federal court to affirm a bankruptcy court’s order granting his objection to the Internal Revenue Service’s claim seeking administrative priority for tax obligations arising in the year of a bankruptcy filing (In re Affirmative Insurance Holdings, Inc., et al., No. 15-12136; [United States of America v. Don A. Beskrone, Chapter 7 Trustee], 19-2034, D. Del.)....