"due to a default" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a situation in which something has happened, either good or bad, because of a non-fulfillment or failure to complete some kind of requirement or obligation. For example: "Due to a default on their loan payments, the family was forced to sell their house."
Reader Jonathan Dickson was turned down for two mortgages due to a default erroneously placed on his record by his energy supplier Scottish Power.
In the documents, seen by the International Herald Tribune, the company attributed the filing to a failure to obtain planning permission and a shortage of finance due to a default rate of almost 50 percent among investors.
But what many homeowners and many others are unaware of is that individuals who are experiencing hard times and are forced to sell a home due to a default, foreclosure, or short sale, can end up with a big tax bill they can't afford to pay because of their difficult financial situation -- even if they have earned nothing or very little from the sale.
Thus, the authors suggested that the phenotype of these mice was not due to a default in embryonic epidermal differentiation but resulted from the inability of the epithelial stem cells to self renew.
In the absence of Itk and in the environment of a low affinity TCR such as the OT-II TCR, these cells may develop due to a default differentiation program to CD8SP cells that results from reduction in Th-POK expression and increase in Runx3 expression, as has been suggested by the observed increase in CD8SP development when Th-POK levels are reduced [56].
This might be due to a default in the membrane translocation of MICB.
The Oscars around the corner lost their beautiful home to foreclosure after owning it for 30 years, due to a defaulted $400,000 refinance loan.
I was stunned to see a poor credit score due to a £10 default recorded by EE/Orange in 2011.
Hannah Garrity, for example, was unable to secure a mortgage and was stunned, she says, "to discover this was due to a £10 default recorded by EE in 2011.
Additionally, we observed a large number of false positive local eQTL for Trigger, likely due to a lenient default thresholding criterion in the local eQTL testing step.
It is possible that ESCOM was never able to pay off that amount because the notice (embedded below) says the sale is due to a foreclosure "for default in the payment of debt and performance of obligations owed by Escom, LLC ("Borrower") to DOM Partners LLC (Secured Party").
