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 [...]

Tri-Star Title Agency Owner sentenced

Roseann Wagner, 45, of Prior Lake, Minnesota was sentenced  in federal court for stealing more than $470,000  for payment of title insurance premiums and recording fees.  Wagner, a licensed insurance agent, owned and operated Tri-Star Title, a title insurance agency. The investigation also found that Wagner had withdrawn nearly $100,000 from ATMs and cashiers at a [...]

Title Insurance Around the Country

Today’s news for the Title Insurance Industry is not good, reading like a bad novel… In Georgia [...]

Case Study: “Destroying Faith in the U.S. Mortgage Backed Security System”

I found this lawsuit to be a perfect case study in what I would title “ How to Destroy Faith in the U.S. Mortgage Backed Security [...]

Alaska Title Agency Pays RESPA Fine

It would be nice to hear some good news about a title company these days.  The industry is certainly being clobbered on a regular basis. When is the last time we tooted our horn about paying a legitimate claim? We DO pay legitimate claims – do we not? All we seem to hear about are [...]