The successor-in-interest to a loan servicer sued a title insurer for breach of contract for denying a claim to recover the value of loss under the title insurance policy. The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas denied the parties’ cross motions for summary judgment and dismissed the case for failure to join a required party. The parties appealed to the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

During its regular session, the Texas Legislature passed a law regarding instruments naming a trust as a party. That law went into effect Sept. 1.

The Justice Department announced a multinational operation involving actions in the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Romania, and Latvia to disrupt the botnet and malware known as Qakbot and take down its infrastructure. The action represents the largest U.S.-led financial and technical disruption of a botnet infrastructure leveraged by cybercriminals to commit ransomware, financial fraud, and other cyber-enabled criminal activity.