Puerto Rico Food distributor Pedro Barba e Hijos Inc., Humacao drugstore owner Manuel Mediavilla Inc., and developer Joseph McCloskey-Diaz — who was involved in a highly-publicized mortgage fraud scheme in 2009 — were among the most recent commercial bankruptcy filings, with upward of $20 million in combined debt.
Puerto Rico bankruptcies were up 1 percent in January, when 739 cases were filed at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, research firm Boletín de Puerto Rico disclosed Tuesday.
Hill Construction Corp., a construction development pioneer that has been doing business in Puerto Rico for almost 40 years, filed for Ch. 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this week, listing more than $13.5 million in accrued debt.