Title Reporter Published in Real Estate Finance Journal

Michael Heller’s, Matthew Spero’s and Lawrence Han’s Fall issue of the Title Reporter was published in the Real Estate Finance Journal.

This article discusses the following court rulings and other title insurance-related developments, among others:

• “Deed Theft: Recent New York Developments” explains that New York State prosecutors, and the New York State legislature, have been focusing on the growing problem of deed thefts.
• A trial court in New York has granted summary judgment to a title insurer in a coverage dispute, finding that the title insurance policy’s “persons in possession” exception to coverage applied to the insured’s claim for damages stemming from an adjacent wall’s encroachment on the insured’s property.

Read the full column here.