Facing a weekend deadline, thousands of people armed with bulging files of paperwork lined up at courthouses around the nation Friday to seek bankruptcy protection from creditors before a new law ...

Clerks at the nation’s bankruptcy courts processed a record 205,129 personal bankruptcy filings last week, and a private consulting firm estimates that a backlog of unprocessed filings could push the ...

DETROIT, MI - One is a city, one is a county, and both held U.S bankruptcy records - until Thursday. That's when Detroit filed for federal protection under Chapter 9 of the U.S. Bankruptcy code, ...

Parent company PG&E Corp. and its utility subsidiary Pacific Gas and Electric filed a framework to exit bankruptcy that limits payments to victims and creditors to $17.9 billion, including $8.4 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The administrator for failed Wall Street giant Lehman Brothers has filed plans to end the largest bankruptcy in US history, opening the ...