MacKenzie v. Flagstar Bank, FSB

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “relationship between a borrower and lender does not give rise to a duty of care under Massachusetts law”
• holding that “relationship between a borrower and lender does not give rise to a duty of care under Massachusetts law”
• holding that a mortgagee has no general duty to modify a loan after default
• agreeing that borrowers are not third-party beneficiaries of agreements between mortgage lenders .and the government
• noting that statutory violations by a mortgagee still “cannot give rise to a negligence claim when there is no independent duty of care between the parties”
• considering whether plaintiffs were third-party beneficiaries in order to evaluate claim of breach of covenant of good faith and fair dealing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).