According to data provided by Epiq Bankruptcy, the 2,973 total commercial Chapter 11 bankruptcies filed during the first six months of 2023 represented a 68% increase over the 1,766 filed during the same period in 2022. Individual Chapter 13 filings increased by 23% during the same period.
Epiq’s recent January 2021 bankruptcy filing statistics report revealed that January experienced the lowest monthly number of new bankruptcy filings across all chapters since February 2006.
According to Epiq, 2020 had the lowest number of bankruptcy filings in the U.S. since 1968, with a total of 529,068 filings across all chapters. However, Chapter 11 filings continued to grow year-over-year, rising 29% to 7,128 new filings in 2020 compared with 5,518 in 2019.
According to Epiq, continuing the trend from August, commercial Chapter 11 filings in September were up 78% compared with September 2019, with 747 new filings vs. 420 during September of last year.
Commercial Chapter 11 filings rose 17% in August 2020 compared with August 2019, according to Epiq, with 525 new filings in the month up from 449 in the same month last year.