A new report reveals that refinance transactions carry higher title insurance risks, with fraud and forgery accounting for significant losses. These claims are costly and often undetectable through ...

First American Title Insurance Company, a leading provider of title insurance and settlement services and the largest subsidiary of First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF), today announced ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- Some television commercials make it seem people are constantly trying to steal homes by filing fraudulent deeds and then taking out mortgages in the real homeowner's name, and there ...

With the digital revolution, our world is evolving at quite an alarming pace, and as a person whose spirit animal is a sloth, it’s too much to handle. However, guess what else is evolving? The ...

SANTA ANA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--First American Title Insurance Company, a leading provider of title insurance and settlement services and the largest subsidiary of First American Financial ...

If you listen to the radio, you couldn’t have missed the incessant ads for what is called “home title lock insurance.” It is not insurance, and it does not lock your home title against fraud. It is a ...

“Title fraud is a scam that involves criminals stealing your home, then borrowing against it or selling it behind your back,” ...

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines fraud as the “intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right,” and from identity theft ...

Title insurance can protect buyers from potential property defects and financial loss at the time of the sale and over the course of ownership. Photo courtesy Getty Images. Each week, the Silicon ...