Creditors of the defunct Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm want to hire Miami attorney Bruce Katzen to help them maintain $15 million in malpractice coverage that Carolina Casualty Insurance is trying to cancel.

The creditors committee asked U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Raymond Ray on Monday for permission to hire Katzen and his firm, Kluger Kaplan Silverman Katzen & Levine, to defend against Carolina’s request for rescission based on the alleged fraud committed by ousted firm chairman Scott Rothstein. He is scheduled to plead guilty Wednesday in a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme.

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