Lily Denslow’s article, Ensuring Long-Term Care Access: How Bankruptcy Law Can be Leveraged to Address the Impending Senior-Care Crisis, has been published in the February 2026 edition of the Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law.  Her article explores how the lasting effects of the coronavirus pandemic continue to challenge the financial stability of the long-term care industry.  Initially, she sets the scene with a discussion of the challenges facing the long-term care industry even before the Pandemic.  Those include staffing costs, rising expenses, and low reimbursement rates from federal health insurance programs.  Also, the threat of litigation looms in an environment where the public is focused on the relative few failings in an

A ribbon cutting ceremony was held on February 11, 2026, to celebrate the operational status of the Cross Town battery energy storage project in Gorham, Maine, which began commercial operation in late 2025. Cross Town is owned and operated by an affiliate of Plus Power LLC and is the largest battery storage project in New England (capacity of 175 MW, 350 MWh). Battery storage projects are expected to contribute significantly to making the supply of electricity more reliable and less expensive for New England residents, especially during summer and winter peak demand. Rath Young and Pignatelli’s Energy Practice Group supported the financing for Cross Town, serving as local counsel to