News Topic: WSJcomBankruptcyBeat

The TXU Monticello Steam Electric Station power plant near Mount Pleasant, Texas, in February 2007. ... Read full article

A bankruptcy judge said Aereo Inc. can auction its TV streaming technology after the company struck a deal with broadcasters over the sale process. The Wall Street Journal has the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s estate is suing Saint Louis University over soured interest-rate swaps agreements, the latest in a string of such suits filed by the defunct investment bank. The Wall Street Journal has the Daily Bankruptcy Review article ... Read full article

Going-out-of-business sales are underway at Delia’s 92 retail stores around the country, including this one in Roseville, Calif. Sara Randazzo Going-out- ... Read full article

Getty Images A bankruptcy judge Tuesday tied up a remaining loose end from the 2008 collapse of Washington Mutual Bank ... Read full article

Bernard Madoff exits federal court March 10, 2009, in New York City. Getty Images Just in time for the holidays, Bernard Madoff ’s cheated investors are s ... Read full article

There will be no more cowboy-hatted lawyers gracing your late-night TV screen. At least, not for now. Binder & Binder, one of the nation’s largest federal disability benefits firms, pulled the plug on its ubiquitous TV-ad campaign . The cost-cutting ... Read full article

A proposed payment to Bernard Madoff's cheated investors would allow some to be paid in full about six years after the collapse of Mr. Madoff’s massive fraud. ... Read full article

Getty Images Experts who want to fix the nation’s bankruptcy laws so that more struggling companies survive kept an important question in mind during their two-year project on reform: What’s the point of fixin ... Read full article

A Texas jury on Friday awarded hedge-fund firm Highland Capital Management $40 million in its lawsuit against Credit Suisse over inflated appraisals of a dozen luxury properties such as golf communities and ski resorts during the mid-2000s. The Wall ... Read full article

Associated Press The financial advisory firm that guided an Arkansas vegetable-canning company through bankruptcy to survival may have to return the money it earned—and tens of millions of dollars more—because ... Read full article

Binder & Binder, one of the nation’s largest Social Security disability firms, filed for bankruptcy protection Thursday night amid shrinking demand for its services as government scrutiny of disability claims tightens. The Wall Street Journal has the ... Read full article

“Anna Nicole,” the New York City Opera’s last performance (if they are not able to raise the money by the end of September) at Brooklyn Academy of Music on Sept. ... Read full article

Nearly $600 million worth of settlements to benefit victims of Bernard Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme on Wednesday won the blessing of a bankruptcy judge. The Wall Street Journal has the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

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A fifth DBSI Inc. official will do time for his role in the fraud-driven collapse of the Idaho real-estate firm. Gary W. Bringhurst, 47 years old, this week was sentenced to five years of probation—including 60 days of intermittent imprisonment— according ... Read full article

Beauty treatment chain American Laser Skincare abruptly shut its doors last month. Now, some customers say they’re being asked to pay for treatments they never received, while others who say they paid in advance want their money back. ... Read full article

The new Apple Watch is pictured during an Apple event at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts in Cupertino, California, in this Sept. 9, 2014 file photo. ... Read full article