Junior Medical Lien Clouding My Title After Foreclosure

[Bradley N.]

I purchased a piece of property from a bank that got title through a foreclosure via the first mortgage lien. There was a medical lien put on the property (vacant land now) 2 years prior to the bank foreclosure. My understanding is that the only liens that survive a foreclosure are tax liens. This is a medical bill lien put on by a state agency. I've been assured by my title insurer that the tax lien doesn't follow the property owner. But a new title insurance company which I'm selling the property through is scared it might still be valid. Why is there such uncertainty that the lien has been extinguished, via the foreclosure, since there was a superior first mortgage on the property?