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Details from the Detroit bankruptcy filing. The city of Detroit, Michigan, filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy on July 18, 2013. It is the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in U.S. history by debt, estimated at $18–20 billion, exceeding Jefferson County, Alabama's $4-billion filing in 2011. [1]
On July 18, 2013, the restructuring expert did just that, making Detroit the largest city in the U.S. to file for bankruptcy. “Bankruptcy is a miserable process," Orr, 65, told The Associated ...
By the time Detroit declared bankruptcy at 4:06 p.m. on July 18, 2013, Detroit had accumulated $18 billion in debt and city retirees' pension funds were underfunded by $3.5 billion. The number of ...
In 2013, Detroit had some 21,000 retired workers who were owed benefits, with underfunded obligations of about $3.5 billion for pensions and $5.7 billion for retiree health coverage.
On July 18, 2013, Detroit, Michigan became the largest city in the history of the United States to file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection. Jefferson County, Alabama , in 2011, and Orange County, California , in 1994, are also notable examples.
The case was assigned to U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Gerber, who had previously presided over another high-profile bankruptcy case of Adelphia Communications Corp. [7] Shortly after the Chapter 11 filing, it was announced that on Monday, June 8, 2009, GM would be removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and replaced by Cisco Systems.
As nearly everyone has heard, the city of Detroit filed for bankruptcy last week, and the bankruptcy and its resolution have the potential to rattle municipal bond markets. The $18 billion filing ...
Delphi, which was spun off from GM in 1999, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after the UAW refused to cut their wages and GM is expected to be liable for a $7 billion shortfall. [ 74 ] [ 75 ] [ 76 ] In order to improve profits, the Detroit automakers made agreements with unions to reduce wages while making pension and health care commitments.