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- Banks as Insurance Referral Agents? The Convergence of Financial Services: Evidence from the Title Insurance Industry
- The purpose of this paper is to offer a glimpse into the potential industrial organization of the property casualty insurance (P&C) market if banks continue to penetrate it at current rates. To do so, the paper studies an insurance market where banks are already integral in distribution: Title insurance. They...
- White papers 2002-09-01
- Review & Outlook: 2001-2002 Title Insurance
- The report views the capital and surplus of the title insurers in its rating universe as strong from both an absolute dollar and risk-adjusted perspective. Further, reserves continue to appear adequate as measured on both a GAAP and statutory basis. The report analyzes the title industry from a macro perspective,...
- White papers 2002-01-17
- The Monoline Restrictions on Mortgage and Title Insurance, With Special Application to California
- This paper provides an economic analysis of the monoline restriction for both mortgage and title insurance. The purpose is to evaluate whether or not the monoline requirement continues to represent good public policy. California is used as an important and typical case study. This paper reviews these two industries and...
- White papers 2003-06-17
- Title insurance: Is It Wanted Here?
- This paper discusses about title insurance which was developed in the post-Civil War era in the United States of America, supplementing existing lawyer's and conveyance's 'error' insurance by providing insurance against any defect in titles to real estate, in the absence of reliable title registration systems. The state-run registers were...
- White papers 2002-11-14
- Monoline Restrictions, With Applications to Mortgage Insurance and Title Insurance
- The key goal of this paper is to investigate the conditions under which monoline restrictions represent sensible regulatory policy. This is an intriguing question because multiline insurance structures have the obvious diversification benefit that the firm's capital is available to support claims against any of its lines. Indeed, all states...
- White papers 2003-01-27
- The Role of the Monoline Requirement in Assuring Title Insurance Effectiveness
- A "monoline" requirement, i.e., the statutory restriction of companies writing a particular line of insurance to writing only that line, occurs today in just three property-casualty lines: title insurance, mortgage guaranty insurance, and financial guaranty insurance. In light of the trend toward the elimination of specialization for all types of...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Cracking Down on Illegal Practices in the Title Insurance Industry
- This paper investigates the practice of rebating in title insurance industry. Since approximately 1997, insurance regulators allege that title insurers began engaging in the illegal practice of rebating by forming captive reinsurance companies that in turn draw rebates from the title insurance companies. These sophisticated schemes are designed so that...
- White papers 2005-06-23
- Sage Global Solutions, Inc. Receives Strong Upgrade by Respected Research Firm; Signs Contract with Orange Coast Title Insurance Worth $500,000 in Additional Annual Revenues
- IRVINE, Calif. -- Sage Global Solutions, Inc. (Other OTC: SGGL.PK) is pleased to announce a well-respected firm, TRI-STATE Capital TSC, has upgraded their equity rating on SGGL. This strong upgrade comes at a time when the company has recently acquired a high growth full-service commercial lines insurance agency and signed...
- Research articles 2006-08-17
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- S&P Affirms Fidelity Natl Fncl and Title Units Rtgs
- Business Editors NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Standard & Poor's Dec. 21, 2000--Standard & Poor's today affirmed its triple-'B' minus senior debt rating on Fidelity National Financial Inc. FNF. At the same time, Standard & Poor's affirmed its single-'A'-minus counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Fidelity National Title Insurance...
- Research articles 2000-12-21
- Lenders First Choice Works with Three of Mortgage Industry's Top Five Lenders; National Title Insurance and Settlement Services Company Accommodates Highest Volume Lenders From 2005
- SIMI VALLEY, Calif. -- Lenders First Choice LFC, a national provider of settlement services and title insurance, currently serves three of the top five mortgage lenders of 2005. These three lenders together represent more than 30 percent of the market share and more than $1 trillion in loan volume*. ...
- Research articles 2006-07-05
- Fitch Ratings Affirms American Pioneer Title's 'AA' IFS Rtg
- Business Editors Fitch Ratings has affirmed the insurer financial strength rating of American Pioneer Title Insurance Company American Pioneer at 'AA'. The Rating Outlook is Stable. American Pioneer is a subsidiary of The PMI Group, Inc. a publicly traded holding company with subsidiaries engaged primarily in private mortgage...
- Research articles 2002-06-27
- Mortgage and Title Insurers Suffer from Housing Woes
- Research Recap submits: Continued housing market weakness and the uncertain long-term future of Fannie Mae FNM and Freddie Mac FRE is putting yet more pressure on the beleaguered mortgage and title insurance industries. A new report from Standard & Poor’s graphically illustrates the declining fortunes of title...
- External links 2008-09-15
- News Alert: Lenders First Choice Selects webMethods Fabric 7.0 as Business Process Platform for New Title Insurance and Settlement Services Application
- webMethods Fabric Expected to Deliver a 30% Cost Savings over Conventional Development for Leading Provider of Settlement Services and Title Insurance
- Research articles 2007-04-30
- Insurance
- The International Risk Management Institute (Dallas, TX) has released "CGL Reporter". The new looseleaf publication includes information on such topics as coverage principles, court interpretations, liability, property insurance cases and umbrella liability. Also covered are such issues as reinsurance, self insurance, guaranty fund, bankers bonds,...
- Research articles 1992-08-01
- Title Insurance Protects Your Financial Investment
- There are two types of title insurance: lender policy and the owner's title insurance. Most lenders require a loan policy when they issue a loan to protect their interest should a problem arise. The policy amount decreases each year and eventually disappears once the loan is paid off. Therefore the...
- White papers 2005-05-09
- Frontier Insurance Group, Inc. Acquires London & European Title Insurance Services Limited, the leading provider of title insurance to mortgage lenders in the United Kingdom
- ROCK HILL, N.Y.--BUSINESS WIRE--July 10, 1998--Frontier Insurance Group, Inc. Frontier (NYSE-FTR) announced that it has acquired 85% of the capital stock of London & European Title Insurance Services Limited, the leading provider of title insurance to mortgage lenders in the United Kingdom. Frontier has been seeking an opportunity to enter...
- Research articles 1998-07-10
- Frontier Insurance Group, Inc. Acquires London & European Title Insurance Services Limited, the leading provider of title insurance to mortgage lenders in the United Kingdom
- ROCK HILL, N.Y.--BUSINESS WIRE--July 10, 1998--Frontier Insurance Group, Inc. Frontier (NYSE-FTR) announced that it has acquired 85% of the capital stock of London & European Title Insurance Services Limited, the leading provider of title insurance to mortgage lenders in the United Kingdom. Frontier has been seeking an opportunity to enter...
- Research articles 1998-07-10
- Understanding Title Insurance
- Title to a property is a record detailing the owners of the property and rights associated with the ownership. Title typically shows a progression of ownership from the first owner to the current one. Title is a fairly simple concept, but when it goes wrong it is a nightmare. That...
- White papers 2005-08-22
- GAO: Better consumer protection, oversight needed for title insurance
- HUD and state insurance regulators should take action to improve consumers' ability to comparison-shop for title insurance, as well as strengthen the regulation and oversight of the title insurance market, including the collection of data on title agents' operations, the Government Accountability Office GAO recommended in a new report. ...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- Irvine, Calif.-Based Title Insurance Company Launches Automated Business Unit.
- By Maria Zate, Santa Barbara News-Press, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 9--SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--Fidelity National Financial Inc. announced Tuesday that it has launched a new company called Property Insight, which will combine all of the automated operations from four of its title...
- Research articles 2002-01-09
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