Jeanine W. (Jeanne) Johnson to Speak at ALTA Business Conference
Jeanine W. Johnson will be a conference speaker at the ALTA Business Conference in Louisville, KY March 26th. A primary function of the American Land Title Association (ALTA) is to provide important educational programs. A “Train the Title Trainer” session will explain adult learning styles and demonstrate how to teach important and complex title issues to staff. Ms Johnson is a professional speaker on title topics, and is often hired to speak at Land Title Association conferences. She also owns an online school for Professionals in Land Title Training. Online Courses include Title Insurance, Closing, Abstracting, Title examination and National Concepts in Title.
WHY ATTEND THIS SEMINAR? WHY EDUCATE STAFF?
- For a better understanding of customer needs
- For Fewer Claims!
- To grow staff, so they have opportunity for a better career path
- So that you can retire someday and they can take over
COME HEAR MORE Jeanne Johnson is a professional Land Title Association (LTA) public speaker and teacher. She has spoken at many Land Title Conferences. At the upcoming ALTA Business Strategies Conference,she will teach a workshop on how to explain complex title topics. While the workshop focuses on understanding adult learning and instructor delivery, she demonstrates tips for training title. A blueprint handout will show specific skills for teaching abstractors, examiners and closers complex title issues.Jeanne will actively demonstrate ways to teach to all types of learners about “rights, title and interests” so staff can identify title issues as “okay” or “problems” needing to be resolved.
And, on top of all that, you might just find a speaker for your next land title conference!
For more information on the conference, go to this ALTA Link
Title Insurance Business Improving
WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The first quarter of 2011 showed improvement for the title insurance industry, according to the American Land Title Association’s (ALTA) First-Quarter Market Share Analysis. Read More at InsuranceNews
In terms of market share, the Fidelity Family of title insurance underwriters captured 33.7 percent of the market during the first quarter of 2011, while the First American Family garnered 27.7 percent, the Old Republic Family recorded 13.5 percent and the Stewart Family had 12.5 percent. Meanwhile, regional underwriters held 12.6 percent of the market during the first quarter of 2011, up from 10.7 percent market share during the same period a year ago.
Stewart Title Clamps Down on Foreclosures
In an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press, Houston-based Stewart is issuing guidelines to its agents that make it difficult to write policies on property foreclosed upon by four banks whose processes are in question. Those banks are JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, OneWest Bank or Ally Financial’s GMAC Mortgage unit. See AP article here.
Stewart Title Charged in Aiding Theft of Agent
Good, solid Title Underwriters continue to pay the price for poor agent handling during busy times. When the market was overwhelmed with business, many title underwriters signed as many title insurance agents as they could find, and the result was those agents were entrusted with billions of dollars in customer trust funds. With the volume of transactions and the phenomenal number of agents, it became much too difficult to keep an eye on the prize – the money that is. Even with the idea of separating the handling of funds through Agent Contracts and the issuing of Insured Closing Letters from the liability of insuring titles, there has been and continues to be much room for risk and litigation. That reared its ugly head again yesterday in a report about a lawsuit against Stewart Title. According to the article:
Executives at Stewart Title “aided and abetted” the plundering of tens of millions of dollars alleges a federal lawsuit. The lawsuit seeks damages in excess of $40 million from Texas-based Stewart Title. An attorney representing Stewart said Monday the company does not comment on pending litigation. Read more here at Southtown Star.
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