BNET Business Dictionary

Business Definition for: Preferential Payment

  • a payment to a preferential creditor

Additional Resources

Changes to Bankruptcy Code Simplify Preferential Payment Defenses
To: BUSINESS EDITORSContact: Dorene Robotti of Clear Thinking Group, +1-908-431-2121; or Bill Parness or Lisa Kreda, +1-732-290-0121, parnespr@optonline.net, both of Parness & Associates, for Clear Thinking Group HILLSBOROUGH, N.J., Sept. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Defending preferential payments has traditionally been a complicated process for creditors involved in bankruptcy cases. However, significant...
Tags: bankruptcy, Clear, creditor, Litigation, payment
Research articles 2007-09-12
HHS Approves Renewal of California Medicaid Waiver Plan to Contract with Hospitals
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today announced an extension of a longstanding waiver for California's Medicaid program that will allow preferential payment for certain hospitals that treat the state's most vulnerableWASHINGTON, Feb. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today announced an...
Tags: hospital, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, waiver
Research articles 2003-02-07
Pre-Payment Rip-Offs Leave Consumers Out of Pocket
Every pre-payment is an act of faith -- and too many consumers are being betrayed, according to consumer champions Consumer Focus. It is calling for customers to be 'promoted' to preferential creditor status -- and for company directors who misuse pre-paid funds to...
Tags: Consumer, Financial Services, Sales Channel, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Joanna Higgins
Blog posts 2009-08-10
TV Azteca payment to shareholders approved.
MEXICO CITY, Apr 16, 2004 (El Economista/Corporate Mexico by Internet Securities, Inc. via COMTEX) -- Mexico's second largest television chain, TV Azteca has announced that its shareholders assembly has approved the distribution of US$55 million to investors this year. Of this total, US$52 million will come...
Tags: Internet Securities Inc., TV Azteca S.A. de C.V.
Research articles 2004-04-16
Preferences
A preference or preferential transfer under Section 547b of the federal bankruptcy code is: A payment or transfer of an interest in property received by a creditor within a defined period prior to the payor debtor filing bankruptcy. The purpose of the law is to discourage disparate treatment of creditors...
Tags: Preference, Creditor, Bankruptcy, Debtor, ABC-Amega, Litigation, Business Operations
White papers 2003-08-21
Winding Up a Business
If your business is experiencing financial difficulties and is likely to fail, you may need to close your doors to avoid making the situation worse than it already is. You have a legal duty to cease operating when there is no chance of your business recovering and paying back its...
Tags: Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, BNET Editorial, Finance, Business Structures, Dissolution, Agreement, Business, Liquidation, Financial, Partnership
Articles 2007-10-02
Grupo Mexico Shareholders Approve Dividend, Authorize Issuance of 70,000,000 Shares of New Common Stock
Business Editors MEXICO CITY, D.F.--BUSINESS WIRE--May 1, 2000 Shareholders of Grupo Mexico S.A. de C.V. Friday approved payment of an annual dividend and authorized issuance of 70,000,000 new shares of Series B common stock. Approval of the dividend and share issuance came at Grupo Mexico's Annual Ordinary...
Tags: Grupo Mexico S.A. de C.V.
Research articles 2000-05-01
Popular developer's stats suggest you can't make a living off the Android Market -- yet
For every rags-to-riches story in Apple's App Store , every amazing tale of Joe Coder in his basement turning a dead-simple idea into a few thousand dollars a day, there are... well, zero in the Android Market . At least, that's the impression we're getting by digging into...
Tags: home screen, Apple Inc., Mobile, App, mobile game, sales ranking, mobile distribution platform
News items 2009-09-01