A mortgage lender has helped to answer a common question about the relative effects of illness and death on home mortgage foreclosure rates.
Disability insurance, experts say they have had a hard time tracking down the sources of some of the commonly quoted statistics dealing with that subject.
Countrywide Financial Corp., Calabasas, Calif., recently reported during a presentation for analysts that “curtailment of income” was the primary cause of 58% of foreclosures recorded in July.