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CoreLogic’s latest Mortgage Fraud Report shows a 3.9 percent year-over-year increase in fraud risk. Read on for more information from the report.

After discovering he did not have fee simple interest to property he purchased, but rather a life estate of a person who now was deceased, an insured purchaser filed a claim on his title insurance policy. When the title insurer denied the claim, he filed suit. Read on for more details.

The operators of an alleged mortgage relief scam that preyed upon distressed homeowners are banned from the mortgage loan modification and debt relief business under a court order obtained by the Federal Trade Commission. Read on for more details.

The manager of a mortgage modification service company was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his role orchestrating a massive mortgage modification scheme through which he and his co-conspirators defrauded thousands of American homeowners out of approximately $31 million. Read on for more details.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Improving Small Business Cybersecurity Act of 2016, giving small businesses access to additional tools, resources and expertise to help protect their sensitive electronic data from cyberthreats.

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts recently answered certified questions from the First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals regarding the power and effect of an attorney affidavit in relation to a mortgage containing a defective certificate of acknowledgement. The First Circuit was hearing a case in which a bankruptcy trustee was trying to invalidate the mortgage based on the defect. Read on for more details.

After short sale proceeds weren’t paid timely to a bank or its servicer, the sellers sued the title insurer for wrongfully retaining short sale proceeds and failing to properly advise them that it had come into possession of those proceeds. Read on for more details.

The proposed cybersecurity regulations by the New York Department of Financial Services entail much more than creating policies and procedures around cybersecurity. Designating a chief information security officer, establishing third-party policies, and encrypting all nonpublic information are among the mandates. Read on for details of what will be expected come Jan. 1.

An Idaho title insurance company appealed damages it was assessed after the ruling against the company was overturned on appeal. The real estate purchaser who won the original case before appeal sought to appeal the overturning of damages. Read on to see how the Idaho Supreme Court ruled.

A couple from New York were arrested for their roles in an alleged residential mortgage fraud scheme and extradited to New York from Canada. Read on for more details.