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Tammy Stevenson, as executrix of Billie Jo Vital's estate, moved for stay relief to sue Hampton House Operations and Bedrock Care Group in Luzerne County over Vital's March 2024 death, while limiting any recovery to insurance proceeds rather than estate assets source filing. The debtors opposed that request as a prepetition tort claim that should remain centralized in bankruptcy source filing. The dispute then settled on April 13: the court entered an agreed order allowing the state-court wrongful-death case to proceed, but only against available insurance or non-debtor parties, with no collection from estate property and no obligation for the estates to fund deductibles or other litigation costs source filing.
That does not end the tort-stay fight. The Estate of Katina Papageorgiou is still pressing for leave to sue Yeadon Operations, MAPA Operating, and Bedrock Care in Delaware County over a 2023 fall-and-death case, and it is also seeking insurance disclosures, cooperation, and assignment rights tied to MCARE coverage arguments source filing. The debtors objected on the same centralization grounds source filing. Judge Deller set discovery through April 28 and an evidentiary hearing for May 12, 2026, meaning the estates are now litigating whether resident tort claims will be liquidated in state court against insurance while the chapter 11 cases remain pending source filing.
The court approved an amended sale process for substantially all assets of the Care Pavilion Debtors, excluding accounts, moving that part of the Pottsville case into a formal auction track. The amended bidding-procedures order covers Bedrock Care, Care Pavilion Operating, Cliveden Operating, MAPA Operating, Maplewood Operating, Milton Operating, Parkhouse Operating, Tucker Operating, Watsontown Operating, and York Operating, and authorizes stalking-horse bid protections consisting of a $50,000 termination fee plus expense reimbursement up to $50,000.
The order sets a March 5, 2025 bid deadline, a March 10 auction, a March 18 sale hearing, and an April 15 outside closing date. That timetable matters because it gives creditors and potential bidders a near-term path to test value for the operating assets while preserving contract and lease assumption-and-assignment mechanics for a going-concern transaction.
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