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Filings increase by 27%

Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2001 | 9:48 a.m.

RENO -- Reflecting a nationwide trend blamed in part on the recession, bankruptcy filings are on the rise across Nevada.

Chapter 7 bankruptcy filings -- personal and business -- climbed 27 percent statewide over a one-year period ending in October, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported in its Sunday editions.

The number of bankruptcies is the highest in five years, at 17,419 filings through October.

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