Scary Thought – Your DNA in a Pen

At the National Sports Collectors Convention held recently in St. Louis, Sports Placement Service unveiled the “first Sports DNA Pen.” The pen is used to stop counterfeit autographs. Hair of a sports celebrity is gathered, then sent to a lab where “fragments of the player’s DNA are isolated. It is then infused into ink to [...]

Title Professionals – Are You Sleeping at Night

I was at the Louisiana Land Title Association conference yesterday. There was a common theme among dozens of title insurance, abstracters and title attorneys I talked to. The business has changed. The standard of thorough title searching and fixing title problems before closing so there are few claims is [...]

Are Abstractors to Blame for Offshoring?

by Robert Franco | 2008/11/26 | Source of Title, Used with Permission

A couple of recent (Source of Title) posts regarding offshoring have stirred up some controversy.  Sunil Ojha started a blog defending the practice of searching titles from India.  In Misunderstanding and Clearification (sic) of Same and Resolved Your Real Issue, OJha explains why [...]

Fitch to Review FNF for Possible Downgrade

A couple of important new articles regarding FNF

From CNN – see full article here

Fidelity National currently carries an issuer default rating of “BBB,” which is just two notches above junk status. Fidelity National’s title insurance operating subsidiaries currently carry financial strength ratings of “A-,” which are [...]

Can Massive Legislation be Far Behind?

The former owner of a title insurance firm in East Providence pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal fraud charge for looting more than $1.3 million …“We see a steady stream of these types of cases,” Connell, the spokesman for U.S. Attorney Corrente, said. Can massive legislation be far [...]