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More NH Bankruptcies in July than Any Month since 2005
by Jon Greenberg on
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The US Bankruptcy Court in Manchester received 494 filings in July, which is a fifty-percent increase from July 2008. This July also marked the most bankruptcies of any month since 2005, when an expected change in the law prompted a spike in filings. Bankruptcies so far this year are thirty-one-percent higher than they were at this point last year. Sixteen of those that filed were businesses, which is the highest monthly total so far this year.
New Hampshire Business Review lists all sixteen companies that filed in July. http://www.nhbr.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090811/NEWS06/908109961
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