06/30/2009
NALTEA Announces 2009 Conference Dates
The NALTEA annual conference, October 9-11, will offfer the opportunity to take the NALTEA National Certified Abstractor (NCA designation) exam, including an exam prep class lead by Jeanine W. (Jeanne) Johnson...

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06/28/2009
NAIC’s Title Working Group meets with Industry Professionals
"A Day in the Life of a Title Insurer" was hosted for the NAIC's Title Working Group in Minneapolis...

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06/28/2009
Title Insurance Characterized as Honest-Services Fraud
Huffington Post article) gives a bad rap to the title industry as just another get-rich-quick-and-scam-the-consumer product. The author has clearly buried his lack of expertise in a convoluted oxymoron concept he calls the “fraud of honest service.� I read this as saying, while title insurance is technically legal, the product is bogus and it’s really all just about a big kick-back.

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06/26/2009
Scammers Pose as Insurance Regulators for Possible ID Theft
The National Assoc of Insurance Commissioners warns that agents in several states have been called by scammers posing as insurance regulators in order to collect personal data that would make I.D. theft possible. It reports that Oklahoma, Idaho, Nevada and California have reported instances of agents being targeted. In those states, callers have posed as insurance [...]

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