New Jersey Court Deciding Title Company Liability for Attorney Closings

Law.com has an important article for anyone using an outside  attorney that handles closing funds.

The New Jersey Supreme Court is deciding if a title insurer can be held liable for a lawyer’s theft of a home buyer’s funds if it fails to tell the buyer directly it is not responsible for the lawyer’s misdeeds.

The case, [...]

Walking the Social Media Tightrope

by Darity WesleyBeing on the tightrope is living. Everything else is just waiting- Karl WallendaThe skill that is absolutely essential to walking a tightrope is balance. Balance is also the key to approaching the social media milieu. It’s pretty tricky right now to figure out how to participate successfully both professionally and personally in the [...]

New York Looks at State Run Title Insurer

Is it the End of the World as We Know It? New York is considering a state run “Title Guarantee Department” that would appoint directors who in turn would appoint and hire “officers and agents as it may require,” according to PRNewswire.com

In response, a new lobbying group has taken the initiative to attempt to stop [...]

Title Companies Have Private Information, Is it sage

Companies that deal with sensitive information, such as Title Insurance Companies have need to take particular attention to the new social media, especially with the use of confidential information being sent via I-Phones and Blackberries.

According to Darity Wesley of Privacy Gurus, here are some guidelines in that regard.

The skill that is absolutely essential to [...]

FDIC Closes Four More Lenders

DSNews  reports the closure of four more lending banks: La Jolla Bank, FSB in La Jolla, California; George Washington Savings Bank, Orland Park, Illinois; Marco Community Bank, Marco Island, Florida; and The La Coste National Bank, Lacoste, Texas. This brings the number of failures on the FDIC list to 20 for this year. Nearly all [...]

A Dog's Purpose

Touching story to pass on:

“Being a veterinarian, I once had been called to examine a ten-year-old Irish Wolfhound named Belker. The dog’s owners, Ron, his wife Lisa, and their little boy Shane, were all very attached to Belker, and they were hoping for a miracle. I examined Belker and found he was dying of cancer. [...]