Title Insurers Staff Down 11.4%

Title Insurance business is improving slowly, adding 1,000 [...]

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 [...]

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 The investigation also found that Wagner had withdrawn nearly $100,000 from ATMs and cashiers at a [...]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 [...]

Judge Cancels Loan in

Judge Cancels loan debt because lender does not deal in good faith to modify sub-prime [...]