Listen to our bankruptcy podcast here. It may seem like there is never a good time to file for bankruptcy, but with the holidays sneaking upon us, it may seem like now is one of the worst times. If you’re struggling financially, money can be the last thing you want
CHICAGO,ILLINOIS/AUGUST 16, 2019: Sign indicates Bed Bath & Beyond store closing at 530 N State Street at River North neighborhood. (Shutterstock) By Lillian Rizzo, CNBC Bed Bath & Beyond is bulking up its team of legal advisors as the troubled retailer preps a potential bankruptcy filing that would take place
By MacKenzie Sigalos, CNBC Core Scientific, one of the largest publicly traded crypto mining companies in the U.S., is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Texas early Wednesday morning, according to a person familiar with the company’s finances. The move follows a year of plunging cryptocurrency prices and rising
By Andrew Osterland, CNBC Personal bankruptcy filings have fallen dramatically since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, but with interest rates rising and government relief waning, filing numbers will likely pick up through this year, say experts. “I’ve had more calls in the last few weeks than the previous six
By Chris Tobias In these tough economic times many individuals and businesses are finding it difficult to meet their financial obligations. If your situation is not imminently dire there are steps you can take to ward off a bankruptcy. Establishing and maintaining good credit is not as hard as one
By Epiq Global Epiq, a global technology-enabled services leader to the legal services industry and corporations, released its May 2021 bankruptcy filing statistics from its AACER bankruptcy information services business. The new filings for May dropped to 34,734 across all chapters. This is a 15% drop from the April 2021
Close-up closing sign at J.C. Penney store facade building. Coronavirus (COVID-19) forced JCPenney to file for bankruptcy protection and closing many locations. – Dallas, TX, USA – Oct 7, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Christina Hughes Babb, DS News March experienced the highest monthly increase in new bankruptcy filings across all chapters—
By Aarthi Swaminathan, Yahoo Finance The pandemic-induced recession has led to a notable amount of Black women to declare bankruptcy, according to a report by nonprofit bankruptcy startup Upsolve. The report came from a bankruptcy questionnaire of 17,000 low-income users over the past year and found that COVID-19 has pushed
By Teadra Pugh, Bloomberg Law It could be easy for some to forget the global nature of the pandemic and economic uncertainty that we are experiencing in the United States. As a result, I am taking a look at a less commonly known type of bankruptcy that could provide a
By Justine Coleman, The Hill About 300 companies that received up to $500 million in Paycheck Protection Program funding have filed for bankruptcy, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The Journal analyzed government data and court filings from the biggest borrowers in the PPP program to determine the statistic but
