A researcher said that Alabama has 7.42 bankruptcy filing per 1,000 residents. The national average is at 5.05 and Nevada had the highest rate of all the 50 states and Alaska had the lowest rate.

Business bankruptcy filings in the nation have decreased by 4 percent while personal bankruptcy filings have increased by 15 percent.

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On July 15, the company reached an agreement to restructure their debt with 88 percent of the debt holders. The debt is currently valued at $36 million. The Chapter 11 case would be the final chapter in the restructuring of the company’s debt.

According to Bloomberg, September will mark the absence of the company’s quarterly reports to the SEC at two years. Regulators have already issued a cease and desist order for the bank.

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Taylor Bean & Mortgage Company is, “seeking bankruptcy court permission to walk away from 37 properties that borrowers have long since ditched,” according to The Wall Street Journal. The company, which is based on Ocala, Florida, stopped operations last year. They say the taxes on the properties are much higher than their actual values.

The company has properties in Birmingham, Detroit, Chicago, Jackson, Miss., Milwaukee, and St. Louis, writes the The Wall Street Journal.

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Zhao writes that, “This marks the largest number of filings since the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act was enacted to curb the increase in filings five years ago.” The American Bankruptcy Institute is also predicting that there will be yet another 1.6 million filings before the year is over.

The state of Nevada has the highest unemployment rate in the country. Not surprisingly, their bankruptcy filing rates were double the national average, 6,800, at 15,000.

Filing rate changes vary between the states. The Wall Street Journal does report that, “While most states are seeing increased filings, some southern states like Tennessee and Alabama have lower filing rates.”

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The company’s old owner, Elizabeth Anne Modder Wallace, formed a new company to buy the old one. Wallace plans to pay $50,ooo, and possibly another $50,000 later for the bankrupt company. This money will go to the bankruptcy estate, which is riddled with expenses.

The promise to honor the pre-paid funeral contracts is one major reason the judge, Tamara Mitchell, allowed the sale. Previously, another company attempted to buy the funeral home but would not guarantee to honor the contracts. The judge refused to allow the sale.

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Corus Bankshares Inc. was a holding company that had its bank transferred to MB Financial Inc. in September. The transfer was part of a takeover by regulators. The bank had 80 branches and more then $7 billion in deposits.

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The reorganization plan was approved by the firms’ secured lenders. The plan will eliminate about $290 million of liabilities from the subsidiaries balance sheets. The plan also gives Pacific Ethanol the option to purchase a 25% interest in the the newly formed company.

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Credit card delinquency is highest in Nevada, at 1.79 percent, with Florida in second place at 1.59 percent. The lowest delinquencies were found in Alaska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

The nationwide average credit card debt also fell for the fourth quarter in a row, decreasing around $300 from $5,434 to $5,165.

In a news release, Ezra Baker, the director of consulting and strategy in TransUnion’s financial services business unit, said “The last four quarters of consecutive decreases in credit card balances shows that consumers continue to focus on paying down their credit cards in response to economic uncertainty and the continued somewhat anemic employment outlook, wanting to keep a credit cushion available for hard times.”

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The company filed the notice in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Richmond.

This decision follows the company’s February filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the second time in three years that it has been forced to do so.

Revenue for the company fell from $2 billion to $1.4 billion for last year. DVD kiosks, over-the-Internet services, and movies-by-mail success have been blamed for the company’s declining profits.

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Filings are down 2 percent overall nationwide, with certain states like New York seeing drops as large as 20 percent.

April is the first month of the year where foreclosure filings have fallen rather than risen.

“There were two important milestones in the April numbers that show foreclosure activity has begun to plateau — but at a very high level that will not drop off in the near future,” said James J. Saccacio, chief executive officer of RealtyTrac. “April was the first month in the history of our report with an annual decrease in U.S. foreclosure activity. Secondly, bank repossessions, or REOs, hit a record monthly high for the report even while default notices dropped substantially on a monthly and annual basis.”

“We expect a similar pattern to continue for most of this year,” Saccacio said, “with the overall numbers staying at a high level and ripples of activity hitting the various stages of the foreclosure process as lenders systematically work through the backlog of distressed properties.”

California, Florida, Michigan, Illinois, and Nevada foreclosures account for more than half of the nation’s total filings, with Nevada leading at one in every 69 homes receiving foreclosure filings

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