Industry News Monday, March 19, 2018 Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (FNF) has signed a merger agreement to acquire Stewart Information Services Corp. for $1.2 billion in cash and stock. If approved by regulators and stockholders, Fidelity would pay $50 per share of...
I understand why Minnesota licenses its closers. It is a big responsibility to handle the hundreds of thousands of dollars each month that go a closer’s hands. It seems prudent to run those background checks, identify those trust accounts, etc. to secure the...
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”...
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,...
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...
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...
