Fidelity National Financial, Inc., a leading provider of title insurance and transaction services to the real estate and mortgage industries and a leading provider of annuity and life insurance products through the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, F&G, announced today that Mike Nolan, the Company's current President, will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer of FNF. Concurrently, Randy Quirk, the Company's current Chief Executive Officer, will assume the position of Executive Vice-Chairman on the Company's Board of Directors. Both executive leadership changes will be effective as of February 1, 2022.

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The NNA’s Vice President of Government Affairs, Bill Anderson, provides an update to California Notaries about the status of the state’s remote notarization bill, AB 1093: Assembly Bill 1093, California’s remote notarization bill, is set for a hearing in the Assembly Judiciary Committee this Thursday, January 13, 2022.

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 costs or lost earnings because the policy did not indemnify “for consequential damages.”

Reissuing a survey first completed three years ago, PropertyShark, a property research firm for commercial and residential tracts, found that Millennials have become more pessimistic about their housing options than they were three years ago while Generation Z’s feelings have also dampened.

On December 6th and 7th, 2021, the U.S. Treasury Department proposed two rules under the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 ("AMLA") and the Bank Secrecy Act ("BSA") with the goal of creating more transparency in corporate ownership and real estate transactions. The AMLA was enacted in January 2021 to modernize and reform the Bank Secrecy Act and the country's broader anti-money laundering regime

Bad Faith: Insured’s bad faith claim against the title insurer failed because the title insurer promptly and properly denied coverage for insured’s claim.

The United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island recently granted a title insurance company’s motion for reconsideration, holding that the insured did not suffer a loss when it lost title to two properties upon which it could not build improvements.

Prior posts have addressed buying and owning a property with a cell lease. In this post, I’ll cover some major points about the process of selling a building or other structure that has cell antennas on it. Selling land with a cell tower on it is similar. A later post will cover selling property but keeping the cell lease, rents and future cell antenna leasing rights.

The receiver in the $400 million Ponzi scheme case involving former San Diego restaurateur Gina Champion-Cain has been granted permission by a federal judge to go after a title insurance company it believes was complicit in defrauding investors.

A married couple owns multiple properties holding title as joint tenants. The wife dies, leaving a will stating their joint tenancy property is to be distributed equally to their children on the wife’s death. The husband records an affidavit of death of joint tenant, taking title as the sole vested owner of the properties. The husband creates a trust naming less than all the children as the beneficiaries who will take title to the property on the husband’s death.

It is not unusual to find mineral reservations in the chain of title to real properties located in Florida. When the State of Florida first conveyed title to state owned lands, it was customary for the state to reserve an interest in all oil, gas and minerals on the property, including the right to drill, mine and excavate for them.

The Karnataka High Court has said a person will not acquire adverse possession by simply remaining in permissive possession, for however long it may be. Dr. Justice HB Prabhakara Sastry said, "Article 65 of the Limitation Act presupposes that the limitation starts only if the defendants prove the factum of adverse possession affirmatively from a particular time.

There's a lot about real estate in the metaverse that can be equated almost directly to that in the real world, especially when it comes to physical characteristics like immobility and uniqueness and economic characteristics like scarcity and location. But for as much in the metaverse that's similar to the real world, there are many, many things that are different. It's important to consider these differences when buying land in the metaverse or otherwise planning a metaverse investment. From purpose and limitations to cost of development, I've made a list of the main differences between the two that are vital for an investor to be aware of.

A tip from a Watchdog reader has helped Iowa Legal Aid recover more than $180,000 for a couple that a court found had been cheated out of their home by a Des Moines real-estate flipper. The tipster told Watchdog that Danial Howe, who said he left the country after Muniba and Hasan Toric sued him in June 2020, was marketing himself online as a cryptocurrency expert.

Seven people have been arrested and an eighth person is being sought in connection with a series of elaborate real estate thefts that District Attorney Larry Krasner said cost property owners more than $900,000.

A Brooklyn man is facing burglary and grand larceny charges over an attempt to steal a Flatlands house he once lived in, using an underhanded strategy of deed theft that has left many others across the borough devoid of their dwellings. James Effiwatt, 64, was arraigned Tuesday in Brooklyn Supreme Court on an indictment alleging he transferred the deed to 36 Hubbard Place — a three-story, two-unit abode where he once lived — to a trust under his control, despite being unable to claim legitimate ownership over the property, which is assessed at a value of $759,000, according to prosecutors.

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To the possible dismay of grammar purists, a federal court recently found that an insurance policy provision meant the same thing whether or not it included a comma before a key phrase. After poking fun at insurance policies (“long been the butt of jokes”), the court recognized that they can “provide fodder for scores of attorneys, grammarians, and logophiles” like when “the placement (or omission) of one comma can make the difference.” This case is an example.

At the corner of Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street, in the London Borough of Camden, where now stands the Dominion Theatre, there stood the Horse Shoe Brewery, one of London's’ largest brewery in the 19th century. The brewery was established in 1764, and by 1811 it had become the sixth largest brewery in London with an annual production of more than a hundred thousand barrels.

What comes to mind when it comes to Lake Superior? Among the many things one may think of, tiny little microstates are probably not one of them. Due to oddities when the border was drawn up between the United States and Canada a tiny slither of land was left unclaimed.

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With lots of "San" and "Santa" names in the Bay Area, you might think you can guess the origins of most Bay Area city names. But you're in for a few surprises.