Leiner asks court for an extension

Leiner Health Products Inc., the collapsed vitamin and medicine maker, asked for more time to exit bankruptcy while it resolves a tax claim and a dispute with the company that bought its assets.

Leiner, of Carson, had planned to exit bankruptcy and pay creditors using cash from the sale of its assets to nutritional-supplement maker NBTY Inc. for $385 million.

Without a longer grace period, Leiner faces “a potential risk of disruption,” according to U.S. Bankruptcy Court papers filed in Wilmington, Del.