Commercial chapter 11 filings totaled 426 in August, a 29 percent increase over July’s total of 331 filings, according to data provided by Epiq Systems, Inc. Overall business filings also increased as the 3,255 filings were 13 percent more than July’s total of 2,886 filings. Total U.S. filings registered 68,117 in August 2017, up 11 percent from the July 2017 total of 61,403. The 64,862 consumer filings in August also represented an 11 percent increase from the previous month’s consumer total of 58,517.
