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While bankruptcies, in general, dipped in December, Chapter 11 filings sharply increased. Here's the latest data.

Epiq, an Atlanta-based provider of intelligence to the legal services industry, has released its October 2021 bankruptcy filing statistics from its AACER subsidiary which found that filings rose by 1.8% last month representing 31,471 filings of all types, up from the 30,920 seen is September.  Breaking the data down, ...

While bankruptcies as a whole declined from August, individual Chapter 13 filings ticked upwards. Here’s the latest.

Nationwide bankruptcy filings dropped by more than 13 percent year-over-year in January, continuing a five-year trend, according to AACER bankruptcy data reported by Epiq Systems. The total number of bankruptcies filed in the United States for January was 59,037, marking the fifth January in a row that bankruptcy filings declined year-over-year. January's filing total represented a 13.5 percent decrease from January 2014, when 68,271 bankruptcies were filed, and a decline of 42.6 percent from their highest total for any January, which was 102,835 reached in January 2010.