Title Professionals – Are You Sleeping at Night

I was at the Louisiana Land Title Association conference yesterday.  There was a common theme among dozens of title insurance, abstracters and title attorneys I talked to.  The business has changed.  The standard of thorough title searching and fixing title problems...

Are Abstractors to Blame for Offshoring?

by Robert Franco | 2008/11/26 | Source of Title, Used with Permission A couple of recent (Source of Title) posts regarding offshoring have stirred up some controversy.  Sunil Ojha started a blog defending the practice of searching titles from India.  In...

Fitch to Review FNF for Possible Downgrade

A couple of important new articles regarding FNF From CNN – see full article here Fidelity National currently carries an issuer default rating of “BBB,” which is just two notches above junk status. Fidelity National’s title insurance operating...

Can Massive Legislation be Far Behind?

From the Providence Journal The former owner of a title insurance firm in East Providence pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal fraud charge for looting more than $1.3 million from company accounts and using the money for vacations, hair care, cosmetics and clothing....