Loan Modification Denials Did Not Violate Massachusetts Statutes, Panel Rules

Mealey's (May 9, 2022, 1:49 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — A Massachusetts trial court did not err in granting summary judgment to a lender and mortgage loan servicer in a lawsuit alleging that the defendants violated state law in denying a borrower’s request for a loan modification because the two state statutory provisions the defendants allegedly violated are inapplicable to the borrower’s mortgage or were insufficiently shown to have been violated, a Massachusetts Court of Appeals panel ruled May 6 in affirming....