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2014 Title Insurance Industry Year In Review…Agent Licensing and ALTA’s Seven Pillars

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2014 was a year that witnessed significant changes in the way that title insurance agents in New York State would be monitored and, for the first time, licensed by the NYS Department of Financial Services (DFS)! It also was a year in which title insurance agents needed to prove that they were in compliance with the Seven Pillars of Best Practices established by the American […]

Title insurance premiums too high? You should see my life insurance!

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Follow @Hallmark Abstract Service A recent article in The Wall Street Journal  by Roland Li spoke to what the author proclaimed to be the unjustly high cost of title insurance in New York State along with alleged abuses being perpetrated by abstract companies! Now I am not here to justify or question insurance rates set by […]