SNTL Corp. v. Centre Insurance

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• applying fair contemplation test to assess whether claim arose prepetition for attorney’s fees accrued postpetition but arising from a prepetition contract
• determining first that § 506(b) is “irrelevant to determining the allowability of an unsecured claim” and then that there’s nothing explicit in the Bankruptcy Code that carves out yet-to-be- incurred fees from claim allowance
• “[W]e reject the position ... that section 502(b) precludes such fees.”
• “[W]e ‘must find a basis in section 502 to disallow a claim, and absent such basis, we must allow it.’” (quoting Wells Fargo Fin. Acceptance v. Rodriguez (In re Rodriguez), 375 B.R. 535, 545 (9th Cir. BAP 2007), citing Travelers, 549 U.S. at 443)

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