Financial Services Update: TILA / Definition of Creditor: entity that arranges for the extension of credit is not a “creditor” under TILA – Rosolen v. Home Performance Alliance, Inc., No. 19-cv-00024-JLB-NPM (M.D. Fla. Oct. 28, 2020)

By delegating some of your responsibilities to a trusted third party, you'll be able to spend more time on the things that require your expertise and build a more sustainable process—for yourself, your team, and your business.

There’s big money, and big opportunity for cannabis service and product providers, such as insurance professionals, in newly legal states.

As the first to review and rate Title underwriters, Demotech, Inc. has observed and reported on the impact of defalcations and escrow theft on the Title industry, for more than 30 years.  

Easement Appurtenant: easement was presumptively appurtenant (held to run with the land) because (i) it was not terminable except by agreement executed by both parties with formalities of a deed, (ii) there was no evidence to show either party intended the right to be personal and terminable at the will of either party or upon the death of either party – Devino v. 2436 E. Las Olas, LLC, No. 4D19-1931 (Fla. 4th DCA Nov. 4, 2020) (affirmed) .

Warfare evolves. For too long, the focus has been on military, especially nuclear, security, while twenty-first-century conflict is increasingly becoming “hybrid,” involving cyber, finance, and many other elements that elude traditional deliberative government policy processes and the regulations housed within them.

Recognizing that Maryland appellate courts have not previously issued a published opinion as to either whether a closing protection letter constitutes a policy of title insurance or when claims against a closing protection letter accrues for statute of limitations purposes, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland has issued a decision clarifying these, and other, areas of the law.

South Korean investment bank Mirae Asset Daewoo won a significant U.S. court case against Anbang Insurance Group after Mirae reversed its plans to buy 15 U.S. hotels for $5.8 billion at the start of the pandemic.

The urge was strong to call this “No Exit,” but remembrances of Jean Paul Sartre’s play of the same name about a hellish afterlife quickly squelched that idea. Instead, the chosen title should better reflect the realm of real property problems that can plague us in the current plane of life: parcels that do not seem to have access.

Construction Counsel Sean Scuderi joins Rich Schoenstein to explore “Lien Times: Securing Mechanics Liens for Preconstruction Services” on the latest episode of Law Brief. Sean and Rich break down recent developments concerning the ability to file mechanics liens for services performed prior to the commencement of actual construction. 

One huge advantage of drones is that these little robots can go places where people can’t, including areas that might be too dangerous, such as unstable structures after a natural disaster or a region with unexploded devices.

A New Jersey federal district court recently ruled that there was no coverage under a title agent's errors and omissions policy for losses resulting from an email phishing scam. In Authentic Title Services, Inc. v. Greenwich Insurance Company, the title agent received emails purporting to be from a mortgage letter, directing the agent to transfer over $480,000 to a specified bank account and to confirm the transfer by email only. 

A plan to add blockchain technology to Bermuda’s land title registry has been dropped by the Government, The Royal Gazette can reveal.

Nineteen years after the approval of the Agricultural Land and Development Law promoted by Hugo Chavez in 2001, land reform remains an unfinished task in Venezuela, with tendencies seeking to reverse Chavez’s expropriations of large non-productive farms.

A Brooklyn lawyer whose license was suspended years ago defrauded eight different homeowners out of properties worth a total of $8 million, prosecutors announced Monday.

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Perhaps these people are just tired of the conventional designs for staircases, and apparently they did a great job! These photos of unique staircases were compiled by My Modern Met. My first thought upon seeing them though is this: These are not suited for homes with children!

It is time, once again, for one of my favorite holiday traditions: the 13th annual Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar. Every day until Friday, December 25, this page will present one new incredible image of our universe from NASA’s Hubble telescope.

If there's any hope for legal conferences and all of the benefits gleaned from them by attendees and vendors, it's avatar-based virtual environments like this one.