People who otherwise might face losing their home through mortgage foreclosure or end up in court over credit card debt will soon have help.
Itâs in the form of two programs Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas is putting in place as an alternative to litigation.
The idea behind the residential mortgage foreclosure and consumer credit card debt diversion programs, which start July 1, is to bring debtors and creditors together to work out their problems, according to President Judge David Ashworth and two court attorneys who worked on the programs.
They are not get-out-of-debtorâs-jail-free cards, however.
âThis is not just for the deadbeat who just doesn t pay his bills. This is for a person who, through life circumstances, is having difficulty making ends meet,â Ashworh said Monday. âAnd this program puts them in a position of acting responsibly to address those issues and allows the lender to make good on the loan.â
The Villas at Willow Run, a rental townhouse community in Willow Street, has been sold for $17.0 million, the real estate firm handling the transaction announced Tuesday.
LANCASTER - Tripping over uneven sidewalks led a Lancaster woman to sue La Dolce Vita Courthouse Bakery in the Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas.
Plaintiff Linda S. Dobbins filed the complaint on April 13. Dobbins says she was walking on the sidewalk in front of the bakery s location at 9 N. Duke St. when she tripped over an uplifted portion of defective sidewalk.
Dobbins says she suffered serious mouth trauma including a broken tooth, a lip laceration, trauma to her gums and other teeth and other cuts and bruises.
Tabor Community Services Inc., which is next-door to the bakery at 7 N. Duke St., was also named as a defendant in the suit.
Here are seven articles from this past weekend to catch up on.
Lancaster woman awarded $6.4M medical malpractice verdict
A Lancaster County Court jury on Wednesday awarded a Lancaster woman $6.4 million after concluding that she lost her ability to walk unassisted and pain-free because her local neurologist initially failed to spot her congenital brain defect.
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Ephrata High School grad stabbed, killed in Sunday altercation in Seattle suburb
A former Ephrata man was stabbed to death following an altercation Sunday (April 25) in a Seattle, Washington, suburb, officials there said.
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A Lancaster County Court jury on Wednesday awarded a Lancaster woman $6.4 million after concluding that she lost her ability to walk unassisted and pain-free because her local neurologist initially failed to spot her congenital brain defect.
Elizabeth Brubaker, 34, who had been working as a hairdresser and attending HACC to become a radiologic technologist, filed the suit in 2017 against Dr. Venkatachalam Mangeshkumar of Neurology & Stroke Associates, Lititz, which he founded.Â
The verdict is one of the largest medical malpractice awards ever here. The juryâs award consists of $6.0 million for pain and suffering and future medical expenses plus $413,000 for past medical expenses, said Brubakerâs attorney, April Strang-Kutay.Â