Court Report

An appeal regarding a mutual indemnification case between two title companies was brought before the New York Supreme Court’s appellate division after the defendant’s motion to dismiss was granted by a lower court.

In a quiet title claim brought by a title insurance company against the U.S. government and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, both parties eventually filed for summary judgment from the presiding district court. The main question in the case is who is liable when a debtor’s funds are not delivered to the correct creditor due to fraud.

Following years of arbitration between a bankrupt bank, a homebuilder and title insurance providers, the Arizona Supreme Court weighed in on whether insurance companies were liable for foreclosed property if loans had been repaid.

Claiming the rule will harm its member entities, a clean energy trade organization has lodged a formal legal complaint in federal court targeting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau leadership and the agency’s final Property Assessed Clean Energy rule.

An attempt by the Donald Trump administration to overhaul the U.S. Institute of Peace by firing all domestic employees has been blocked by a federal judge, in the latest chapter of an escalating legal battle over the government-funded think tank.

A major title insurance underwriter is suing the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network over its residential real estate transfer regulation and its associated reporting obligations set to take effect Dec. 1.

An appeals court heard a case involving a retired senior who sued his mortgage lender and its title insurance subsidiary claiming the title company failed to pay his past-due property taxes on time, incurring fee increases. A lower case dismissed the case, but the appeals court reversed the dismissal of the complaint against the title company.

The assignee of a mortgagee sued the mortgagee's title insurer for failure to defend the assignee in separate foreclosure action against the mortgagor brought by the property seller. The assignee appealed after a New York Supreme Court dismissed the complaint.

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha reached a $213,000 settlement with a national property management company, resolving allegations of deceptive and unfair housing application and screening practices.

East Texas Title Companies has filed suit against the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network over allegations of “unreasonable” data collection and reporting requirements.