WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 29 agreed to hear a case to determine whether a defalcation was committed by a debtor who, prior to filing for bankruptcy, had been appointed the trustee of his father's life insurance trust and took out three loans from the trust he...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) The U.S. Supreme Court on May 13 unanimously vacated and remanded a case involving a bank's claim that a debtor who had acted as trustee for his father's insurance trust was guilty of defalcation for making loans to himself during the time he had control of the...