Court Report

A California man sued his lender and the title insurer who acted as trustee for the deed of trust, alleging that the parties did not have standing to foreclose and that the property had been improperly foreclosed upon. Read on for more details.

A deadlocked Illinois Supreme Court issued its opinion in a case brought by homeowners who alleged their title insurers make illegal kickback payments to attorney agents by splitting the title insurance premium with them. Read on for more details.

A title insurer filed an adversary proceeding against a debtor, alleging the debtor defrauded the insurer when he was the treasurer of a Texas title agency which was a policy-issuing agent of the title insurer. Read on for more details.

After he lost his property in Hamilton Beach, Calif., to foreclosure in 2008 as a result of what he claimed was a fraudulent refinance, a property owner began filing suit against various parties, endeavoring to show that they defrauded or otherwise wronged him when he refinanced his residence. Eventually, he filed suit against the title agency that acted as subescrow for the transaction, along with the title insurer, alleging they had a duty to know and prevent the fraudulent transaction. Read on for more details.

A Minnesota title agency appealed the decision of a U.S. district court, which dismissed its case alleging that the Minnesota Department of Commerce’s actions during an administrative hearing violated the agency’s federal rights, to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Read on for more details.

A man in Illinois brought claims for conspiracy against a title insurer, a state judge and others. He alleged that despite winning a case brought against him, he suffered and that the case spurred a heart attack. Read on for more details.

In a victory that may boost the entire title industry in Florida when disputes arise with homeowners associations regarding estoppel certificate fees, the County Court of the 12th Judicial Circuit in Manatee County, Fla., granted a judgment in favor of PropLogix against Villas of Emerald Lake Condominium Association Inc. Read on for more details.

A bank sought to dismiss the wrongful foreclosure suit brought against it by homeowners in Oakland, Calif., in a first amended complaint the court allowed the homeowners to bring after dismissing their initial complaint. Read on for more details.

After the Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee for a consumer sued various parties for their roles in an alleged scheme to defraud individuals looking for alternative funding sources for real estate projects by misappropriating their escrow accounts, the managing member of an allegedly involved escrow company moved to dismiss the counts against her. Read on for more details.

A title company – who acted as a settlement service provider for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Federal Housing Administration, when FHA resells property after foreclosure – sued HUD for allegedly breaching its contracts by preventing the agency from charging buyers for closing services. Read on for more details.