In its brief appealing a recent state supreme court decision, the New York State Attorney General’s office hammered home the Department of Financial Services’ (DFS) opinion that the title insurance industry is “rife with abuses.”

A new report from Juniper Research finds that data breaches are expected to result in the theft of more than 146 billion records from 2018-2023 – with the United States a growing target for criminals.

Owners of title agencies in Colorado were indicted recently by a state grand jury in Denver. The pair is accused of the theft of $733,000 of funds that should have been placed in trust for their policyholders.

It is important to have a plan and think out what you will need to do in the minutes, days and months after an attack occurs, but it is also critically important to know who to make aware of the situation and how you can help one another. During the National Settlement Services Summit, experts in the field shared how to best work with your partners after a cyberattack. Read on for more details.

A title company was awarded summary judgment in a case where the district court ruled claims against the title company were beyond the statute of limitations. The court of appeals reversed the decision, however, and the Kansas Supreme Court upheld the appellate court’s reversal – but for different reasons than the appellate court used.

New legislation in Louisiana took effect Aug. 1 granting the state insurance commissioner the authority to allow an insurance producer to employ in his business or to associate with his business an individual previously convicted of a felony if the producer first obtains the written consent of or a waiver from the commissioner. The Louisiana Department of Insurance issued an advisory letter to all insurance producers to detail terms of the statute and implementation.

A Delaware man who bought 27 investment properties sued his attorneys for malpractice after a problem with mistitling on 12 of the properties eventually caused the man to lose all of them to foreclosure.

The New York Department of Financial Services issued a reminder to covered entities that the third transitional period in the agency’s cybersecurity regulation will end Sept. 4. At that time, regulated entities are required to comply with various aspects of the rule, including encryption for nonpublic information.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Aug. 3 signed Substitute Senate Bill 220 into law, providing a legal safe harbor to covered entities that implement a specified cybersecurity program, and allowing transactions recorded by Blockchain technology under the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act. Read on for details of the cybersecurity programs which qualify for the safe harbor protection.