ALEXANDRIA, Va — A majority of respondents in a recent ABI Quick Poll believe that business bankruptcy filings will increase by more than 10 percent in 2012.<\/p>\n
Sixty-eight percent agree (31 percent \u201cstrongly agreed\u201d and 37 percent \u201csomewhat agreed\u201d) that business filings will increase by more than 10 percent this year. Twenty-five respondents to the current poll disagree (7 percent \u201cstrongly disagreed\u201d and 18 percent \u201csomewhat disagreed\u201d) that business filings will increase more than 10 percent in 2012. Five percent \u201cdid not know or had no opinion\u201d on the question.<\/p>\n
Total commercial filings for calendar year 2011 fell to 74,142, representing a 19 percent decline from the 92,070 business filings recorded in 2010, according to data from Epiq Systems Inc. However, the fallout from the recent recession continues to take a toll on U.S. businesses as access to credit remains tight and debt levels are elevated.<\/p>\n
ABI\u2019s Quick Poll is posted on ABI\u2019s home page, www.abiworld.org<\/a>. ABI members and the public are invited to respond to a question on a timely bankruptcy or insolvency issue. Visit http:\/\/www.abiworld.net\/quickpoll\/<\/a> to access the results of previous ABI Quick Polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ALEXANDRIA, Va — A majority of respondents in a recent ABI Quick Poll believe that business bankruptcy filings will increase by more than 10 percent in 2012. Sixty-eight percent agree (31 percent \u201cstrongly agreed\u201d and 37 percent \u201csomewhat agreed\u201d) that business filings will increase by more than 10 percent this year. Twenty-five respondents to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 16:13:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}