Bankruptcy News
- - Bankruptcy protection may be needed for the city of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It's just a sign of the times in a down economy, right? Dauphin County, which is a guarantor of Harrisburg bonds, has given permission to a bond trustee, TD Bank, to sue the city over $35 million it owes on bond payments for an incinerator project, the Central Pennsylvania Business Journal reported Thursday. These days ...
- - ATLANTA — A federal bankruptcy judge in Atlanta ruled Thursday that a civil case filed against a former Rome nursing home owner can continue today in Floyd County Superior Court. George D. Houser ...
- - Personal bankruptcy filings fell in August, nearly erasing the rise in filings the prior month, a new report shows.
- - An Iowa construction company with an Omaha office files for bankruptcy protection, leaving some small businesses in a money pinch.
- - The number of bankruptcy filings in New Hampshire dropped sharply in August compared to last month and a year earlier. It was second consecutive monthly decrease in what had been an unrelenting four-year climb in bankruptcy filings.There were 421 filings in August, according to unofficial figures, 52 fewer than July and 73 fewer than the previous August. That’s a monthly percentage drop of 11 ...
- - BLADE STAFF Bankruptcy filings across northwest Ohio rose in August, reversing a four-month trend in which the number of cases had been declining from last year. Last month had 785 filings, up 6 percent from the same month last year for the 21 Ohio counties within the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Toledo. It was the highest number of filings for an August since 2005. Through the first eight months of ...
- - The number of Hawaii residents filing for bankruptcy protection in August eased slightly from July, but cases remained above the 300 mark for the sixth month in a row.
- - Bankruptcy “has become a real option” for Pennsylvania’s capital of Harrisburg, City Council Vice President Patty Kim said.
- - "It was a very good and informative meeting last night. Bankruptcy is not something to fear. It will actually give us taxpayers a safe haven, so to speak. Everything will have to be laid out and all parties will have to come to the table.
- - A bankruptcy court auction of the assets of Bear Island Paper Co. LLC is moving ahead with the company's original stalking-horse bidder agreement in place. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin R. Huennekens yesterday overruled an objection filed by another investment group that said it would offer more cash for the company. ...
