Going-out-of-business sales are expected to begin tomorrow at the 105 remaining stores of the menswear retailer.

LandAmerica Financial Group Inc. and a federal agency that earlier this week moved to take over the bankrupt company’s pension program have agreed to a plan to ensure it is fully funded.

LandAmerica Financial Group Inc. and a subsidiary are heading to mediation over a $68.2 million claim made in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Richmond. So, too, are four test-case plaintiffs that filed complaints against subsidiary LandAmerica 1031 Exchange Services Inc. Judge Kevin R. Huennekens agreed to a mediation plan yesterday, nearly six months after both companies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Automaker received $15.4 billion in federal aid and faces a June 1 government deadline to complete its restructuring plan.

Money placed with LandAmerica 1031 Exchange Services Inc. belongs to the estate and not the customers who entrusted their funds to the now-bankrupt company. U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Kevin R. Huennekens ruled yesterday that customers who gave their money to the company to hold temporarily as a way to defer capital-gains taxes have no ownership over the funds.

A dissident group of Chrysler LLC lenders objected yesterday to the sale of the bulk of the automaker’s assets to Italian automaker Fiat, saying that the proposed sale process is designed to prevent competitive bidding. Meanwhile, the bankruptcy court judge overseeing the case ruled that the identities of the group’s members do not need to be sealed, despite the group’s lead attorney saying that death threats were made against some of them.

Fritz Henderson said GM is working on two parallel plans: one that involves bankruptcy and one that doesn’t.

The nation’s second-largest shopping mall owner, General Growth Properties, is responsible for such properties as Tysons Galleria, Landmark Mall in Alexandria, Lynnhaven Mall in Virginia Beach and Piedmont Mall in Danville.

The posh playground for the prominent and rich, The Greenbrier Resort, has nearly $142 million worth of assets, including a $3,823 potato peeler, a $205 fudge warmer and Beretta white onyx shotguns worth $6,666, according to financial statements filed in advance of a federal bankruptcy hearing today. Assets also include a couple of machines that dry out swimsuits in seconds costing $2,182 each, a $3,740 pig cooker and two white-tail deer heads worth a total of $500.

Fallen NFL star Michael Vick told a bankruptcy judge yesterday that he became a changed man in prison and is determined to do all the right things upon his release, including repaying his creditors with the millions he hopes to resume earning in professional football. But after more than three hours of testimony in which Vick laid out what he called his “exit strategy,“ U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Frank J. Santoro rejected it. Santoro told Vick to draft a new Chapter 11 plan, one with more certainty.

An agent for suspended NFL star Michael Vick told a bankruptcy court yesterday that he hopes the former All-Pro quarterback could return to the league by September.

Suspended NFL quarterback Michael Vick is expected to testify today at a hearing on his bankruptcy-reorganization plan, which relies heavily on a quick return to a lucrative pro-football career. Vick, 28, has been transported from federal prison in Kansas, where he is serving the final months of a 23-month term for dogfighting, to appear before U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Frank J. Santoro in Vick’s hometown of Newport News.

Michael Vick has agreed to pay the Atlanta Falcons $6.5 million as part of his bankruptcy case, clearing the way for the team to release him before training camp, a person familiar with the settlement said today.

S&K Famous Brands has paid off a credit line used in bankruptcy and can continue operating without the looming threat of liquidation—for now. The Henrico County-based menswear retailer also is actively looking for a buyer or investor who could help the company emerge from bankruptcy court protection. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Feb. 9.

A New Jersey company is offering to buy claims against a bankrupt subsidiary of LandAmerica Financial Group Inc. for pennies on the dollar. Hain Capital Group has been calling and mailing letters to creditors of LandAmerica 1031 Exchange Services Inc., which filed for bankruptcy protection in late November along with its parent company.