Quote Originally Posted by AmanStokes View Post
Thanks for sharing this inquiry with us. I believe this will be a great help even to those who are not going through the same situation. Just a friendly reminder, though. A case has been lodged against Chase bank for allegedly giving a Texas man cardiac arrest after foreclosure notices were sent to him. Harry Engel's deadly heart attack [[which Chase denies responsibility for) makes him another victim of foreclosure. We just have to remember to be extra careful when it comes to this kind of transactions because this can lead to another thing. It's better to be sure, right? Source for this article: Heart Attack After Foreclosure
From the article:

Widow sues

His wife, Wando Jo Engel, is suing Chase, according to the Huffington Post, in a wrongful death suit. The Engels were among a number of people who had been given similar instructions. They were told to miss at least one payment to qualify for a troubled mortgage refinance, only to fall into foreclosure after the bank decided to not follow through. Chase hadn’t filed foreclosure proceedings yet, but were in the early stages.
A friendly reminder: anybody can file a lawsuit, collecting a judgement is quite another thing.

Two things pop out at me:

1) both the bank and the client appear to have engaged in an act of collusion to defraud the federal "Making Home Affordable Program", since the client was not eligible for the program at the time he first inquired about refinancing his mortgage.
2) despite the headline and claims of the next-of-kin, the bank had not yet foreclosed on his mortgage when the client had the heart attack.

How can someone make a legal claim against a co-conspirator who gets cold feet and backs out of a plan to defraud the government?

How can someone make a legal claim that a fatal heart attack was induced by a legal proceeding, particularly one that was only in the initial stages and had not yet resulted in a foreclosure?