Infamous GM Bankruptcy Case, Triggered By Colossal UCC Filing Error, Is Settled For $231 Million

LexisNexis (June 13, 2019, 8:43 PM EDT) -- The General Motors bankruptcy filed on June 1, 2009 provided the venue for a case in which a small yet crucial error in a UCC filing in Delaware spawned a decade of litigation between hundreds of lenders who thought they were secured creditors and the unsecured creditors committee.  The colossal filing error was made when a UCC-3 termination statement was prepared and filed, releasing a security interest in error.  By preparing a termination statement for the wrong financing statement number, over $1.5 billion in debt was put at perilous risk of loss....