Michael Heller’s, Peter McNamara’s and Matt Spero’s Spring issue of the Title Insurance Reporter was published in the Real Estate Finance Journal.

The authors discuss recent court decisions of note involving title insurance.

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Michael Heller’s, Peter McNamara’s and Matt Spero’s Winter issue of the Title Insurance Reporter was published in the Real Estate Finance Journal.

The authors discuss recent court decisions of note involving title insurance.

Read the full column here.

Here is what we cover in this issue of The Title Reporter: A Legal Update for the Title Insurance Industry:

• A federal district court in Montana has ruled that a conveyance of property by policyholders under a title insurance policy to trusts was a voluntary conveyance to “a separate and distinct entity” and that,

Here is what we cover in this issue of The Title Reporter: A Legal Update for the Title Insurance Industry:

• A Delaware trial court has ruled that plaintiffs suing a title insurer for breach of a title insurance policy would not be able to present damages evidence on lost wages, carrying costs, lost opportunity

Michael Heller Peter McNamara and Matthew Spero published the article, “A Legal Update for the Title Insurance Industry,” in the Winter 2021 issue of Real Estate Finance Journal.

The authors discuss five recent court decisions of note involving title insurance.

Michael J. Heller’s, Peter P. McNamara’s and Matthew V. Spero’s Summer 2021 issue of the Title Reporter has been published in the Real Estate Finance Journal.

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Here is what we cover in this issue of The Title Reporter: A Legal Update for the Title Insurance Industry:

• An appellate court in California has ruled that the state’s Quiet Title Act insulated a third party from the effect of a subsequent invalidation of an earlier quiet title judgment only if the third

Here is what we cover in this issue of The Title Reporter: A Legal Update for the Title Insurance Industry:

• An appellate court in New York has ruled that a title insurance policy excluded coverage for a “Declaration and Covenants” filed as a condition of a zoning resolution.
• An appellate court in New York

Here is what we cover in this issue of The Title Reporter: A Legal Update for the Title Insurance Industry:

• A trial court in New York has rejected a counterclaim filed against a title insurance company in a case it brought against an agent and an individual who signed a personal guaranty.
• An appellate

Here is what we cover in this issue of The Title Reporter: A Legal Update for the Title Insurance Industry:

• The Supreme Court of Texas has ruled that a special warranty deed conveying real property limited the grantor’s liability for allegedly breaching the implied covenant of “seisin” – that is, the covenant that the

David Leno, Peter McNamara, Matthew Spero, and Michael Heller published the article “Title Insurance Coverage And Easement Disputes: Case Update” in Mealey’s Emerging Insurance Disputes.

Courts have issued several important decisions recently in cases involving title insurance coverage and easement disputes. In this article, the authors discuss a New York court decision resolving whether a

Welcome to the Fall 2020 issue of The Title Reporter: A Legal Update for the Title Insurance Industry. This issue focuses on recent court decisions involving easements. It also discusses a factsheet released by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on disclosures of title insurance costs.

We begin this issue of The Title Reporter with a discussion

Peter McNamara’s article, “Reinsurance and BI Claims” has been published in the August 2020 issue of Best’s Review magazine. The article discusses how reinsurers need to evaluate their obligations, especially if legislation is passed expanding their exposure.

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Welcome to the Summer 2020 issue of Title Reporter: A Legal Update for the Title Insurance Industry. This inaugural issue of this quarterly newsletter covers a wide range of recent decisions by courts across the country involving title insurance.

Here, we explore how courts have calculated loss, addressed the doctrine of subrogation in the context