Recent Bankruptcy Articles page 10

Bloomberg - Shares of Bear Stearns fell as much as 37 percent this year after the collapse of the subprime mortgage market pushed two of its hedge funds into bankruptcy and eroded fixed-income revenue. The stock remains the worst performer this year among the ...

Baltimore Sun - After Bethlehem Steel filed for bankruptcy in 2001, thousands of retirees had their pensions folded into the government-funded PBGC, with many seeing their monthly payments cut. The agency admits it made mistakes in calculating the payments of some ...

CNBC - WILMINGTON, Del. - A bankruptcy judge has cleared the way for American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. to refund up to $650,000 in application fees and other mortgage costs it collected from more than 1,000 customers who never got their loans because ...

Forbes - A judge has postponed a key hearing on Lionel LLC's exit from bankruptcy, as talks to settle a lengthy trade-secrets battle intensify between the model-train maker and MTH Electric Trains. Judge Burton R. Lifland of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in ...

Forbes - UFCW 8-Golden State is on the front lines of the big box fight, working with community groups to stop the onslaught of massive chain stores that drive local businesses into bankruptcy and provide sub-par wages and benefits to employees. "Communities ...

CNBC - WASHINGTON - Medford Crossings North LLC and nine other companies controlled by New Jersey real estate developers Mitchell R. Cohen and Carl Freedman filed for Chapter 11 protection Wednesday. In separate petitions filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court ...

CNBC - WASHINGTON - A bankruptcy judge this week converted Spectrum Financial Group Inc.'s Chapter 11 case to a Chapter 7 liquidation after the mortgage lender said it lacked the ability to reorganize. Judge Sarah S. Curley of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in ...

Forbes - Accuma blamed creditor pressure and a more competitive environment for the small increase in IVA cases -- a less onerous form of bankruptcy. tf.TFN-Europe_newsdesk@thomson.com hmb/sal COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Financial News Limited 2007. All rights ...

Forbes - Its expense provision for the unit increased $865 million due to consumer and small business credit costs rising from post bankruptcy reform lows, growth and seasoning in various portfolios and stress in several portfolios driven by the weakened U.S ...

St. Petersburg Times - About three weeks before that hearing, Burcaw Development Group already had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, a form of court-assisted reorganization that allows a company to regroup without having its assets seized by creditors. Now, two Land O'Lakes ...