Over the past half-decade, aftermarket boat equipment retailer West Marine overinvested in inventory and was buffeted by changing consumer demand, the COVID-19 pandemic, poor weather conditions and underperforming stores, eventually running aground in Chapter 11 on May 17.
An Alabama hospital and Blue Cross Blue Shield crossed swords over whether the insurer's reimbursement rates were preventing the hospital's emergence from bankruptcy, a locomotive supplier can take $2 million in postpetition financing, and a ProPhase creditor urged a judge to place the debtor into Chapter 7 liquidation.
Monthly farm-related Chapter 12 filings soared in April to a more than six-year high, with more likely on the horizon, amid an overall increase in all bankruptcies as fuel prices and other costs continue to rise, according to data from Epiq AACER.