April 2021 New Bankruptcy Filings Continue Steady Increase Over COVID Lows Second Consecutive Month of Over 40,000 New Filings May 03, 2021 19:22 ET | Source: Epiq Epiq Kansas City, Kansas, UNITED STATES NEW YORK, May 03, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Epiq, a global technology-enabled services leader to the legal services industry and corporations, released its April 2021 bankruptcy filing statistics from its AACER bankruptcy information services business. Total April new filings exceeded the forty thousand threshold for the second straight month with 40,886 across all chapters. The new filings were driven by 38,813 new non-commercial or individual filings, down from March’s 41,156, but up 16% over the average in the prior 7-month period.