Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy listing more than $3.45 million in debts, much of it tied to civil lawsuits from a 2024 Dallas highway crash, USA Today reported on November 5, 2026. This is other parties’ case, not a Tacher Law case. A bankruptcy filing is not a jury verdict and not a settlement — it is a federal court filing that pauses most collection while the court decides what happens next.

According to USA Today, Rice, 26, filed the petition on Wednesday, November 4, 2026, in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas. The filing claimed just $677,054 in personal assets against more than $3.45 million in debts, with more than $3.27 million described as unsecured debts from civil litigation, business debt, and consumer debt. Listed assets included a 2023 Mercedes-Benz valued at $53,800 and a Super Bowl 58 ring valued at $160,000. Rice is in the final year of his four-year, $6.5 million contract, USA Today reported.

The largest claim belongs to a crash victim. Of the 20 creditors listed, Kathryn Kuykendall has the largest outstanding claim, at more than $979,000, USA Today reported. Her attorney, Marc Lenahan, told WFAA in July 2025 that she had not received payment after Rice agreed to a $1 million settlement arising from a crash in which an Uber she was riding in was struck by Rice’s car. Moneywise, reporting on November 8, added that Rice disputes another roughly $700,000 across lawsuits by other crash victims — those disputed amounts are claims, not court findings.

The crash itself is established by a guilty plea, not merely alleged. USA Today reported that in March 2024 Rice was driving 119 mph in a Lamborghini Urus on a Dallas highway before causing a six-car crash, according to an arrest warrant, and that he later pleaded guilty to third-degree felony charges of collision involving serious bodily injury and racing on a highway causing bodily injury. He was found to have violated his probation in May 2026 and was ordered to spend 30 days in jail. No statement by Rice about the bankruptcy filing itself was reported. Moneywise instead quoted independent Dallas bankruptcy attorney Donald Hood, who has no role in the filing, telling FOX 4 that victims would likely recover something, but probably nowhere near their claims, and questioning whether a high earner can qualify for Chapter 7 under the means test.

Sources: USA Today, November 5, 2026; Moneywise, November 8, 2026.

What this filing teaches crash victims about collecting

The legal lesson is that winning a settlement is not the same as getting paid. A signed settlement or a judgment gives the injured person a right to collect, and collection tools can include wage garnishment. A Chapter 7 filing, however, triggers an automatic stay under federal bankruptcy law: litigation and garnishment generally pause until the bankruptcy court rules on eligibility and the claims process runs. Moneywise reported that Rice’s first meeting of creditors is scheduled for December 11 in Dallas. Whether any particular crash claim can be discharged is a specific question for the bankruptcy court — nothing about that has been decided on this reporting.

Bankruptcy law is federal, so the stay principle would work the same way for a Florida victim collecting on a Florida judgment; the underlying crash law is different. This was a Texas crash, governed by Texas law, not Florida law. By comparison only, Florida negligence claims follow modified comparative negligence — recovery is reduced by the injured person’s percentage of fault and barred entirely if that person is more than 50% at fault — while Florida medical malpractice claims are the exception and still follow pure comparative negligence under Chapter 766. The practical steps are the same everywhere: keep the signed settlement, the judgment, and every payment record; watch for a bankruptcy notice and act on its deadlines immediately, because bankruptcy deadlines are strict; and get counsel experienced in both injury claims and creditor rights before the claims process closes.

Disclaimer: This report concerns other parties’ cases. It is news reporting and general information, not legal advice. Disputed claims are described as claims, no bankruptcy eligibility or discharge decision has been reported, and past results in other cases do not guarantee similar outcomes.

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