[Board1] [EXTERNAL] FW: [DIRT] Forbes article on "Inside America's Richest Racket"
George Peters
execdirector at washingtonlandtitle.com
Fri Mar 15 12:41:11 PDT 2024
Here is a cleaner copy of the report, and a smaller file size.
In my email to DIRT, I copied language from Footnote 32 on Page 14 about
monoline insurance.
George
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Not sure if may people have seen this report
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Thank you for sharing Craig, and thank you George for defending our
industry! Great read here.
Thank you,
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In case any of you are not on the Dirt listserv, please see our own George
Peters’ great response to those who question the value of title insurance.
Thank you George! I will be out of the office on vacation March 21 and March
22, returning to work Monday March 25, 2024.Craig Tru
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Subject: Re: [DIRT] Forbes article on "Inside America's Richest Racket"
I might respectfully disagree with a broad statement as to a computer
examining title and determining its status and risks to a buyer or lender.
The term “underwriting” in this context is quite broad. While there are
variations in how title
I might respectfully disagree with a broad statement as to a computer
examining title and determining its status and risks to a buyer or lender.
The term “underwriting” in this context is quite broad. While there are
variations in how title insurance is produced around the country, some
elements are not avoidable, notwithstanding that computers are a valuable
tool to assist in the process (time spent in reading indexes for example.).
The proposal to forego title insurance (Title Waiver Pilot program in this
case) raises a number of issues that concern consumers (avoiding state
regulation of insurance, GFEs being insurers, and on). But a couple of
comments based on the proposal (for example, the percentage of income paid
out in claims and the fee split between underwriters – title insurance
companies – and their agents), warrant some general comments, to clarify
what might not always be understood about title insurance. What follows is
lengthy but there is likely more that could be discussed by others on DIRT.
Title insurance is not related to other types of insurance. It provides
indemnity coverage for matters affecting title that are not as stated in the
policy. (It does not say: “Title is vested in Fred” but rather says: “I will
defend Fred if the title is not vested in Fred or if someone sues Fred to
say Fred is squatting on my land”. Not an exact quote of course, but merely
descriptive of the policy language.) The risk assumed is not based on a bet
against any odds that you might suffer a future loss by fire, or be involved
in a car accident or suffer a health problem, or die – all casualty
coverages. Instead, title insurance assumes the risk that title might not be
vested as stated in the policy. That is, that Fred doesn’t have the title –
fee, leasehold, easement, etc., because of, as examples: fraud in a previous
conveyance of the title or some other defect in a deed in the past chain of
title, a defect in the execution of a mortgage being insured, etc., or there
is a lien that hasn’t been disclosed and that the insured hasn’t accepted –
or even that the title company made a mistake and overlooked a lien or
unpaid taxes.
In any event, title insurers generally have filed rates and are well
regulated by the state insurance departments in the various states within
which they operate, and must maintain reserves against potential claims.
Also, the distinction between title insurance and other forms of insurance
is emphasized by the “monoline” insurance requirement in many states. This
prohibits title insurers from offering property casualty, health, life or
other “lines” of insurance. It also effectively prohibits a company that
offers other kinds of insurance from offering title insurance, unless it
forms a subsidiary to operate with a separate title insurance license.
Apples to apples, oranges to oranges as it were, and you can’t mix the two.
Of course, there are liens and encumbrances that are regularly deemed
acceptable, such as easements, HOA covenants and restrictions, ongoing taxes
and assessments, etc. But the policy is not issued until the insured and the
insurer are in agreement as to the state of the title as insured.
Only a labor-intensive search of the records will suffice. As Dale and Jason
point out, the business of title insurance is examining – and analyzing –
the records (real property deeds, mortgages and other categories that might
be unique to local recording systems), tax and assessment records on the
local and state level, judgment liens, corporate and similar entity records
to determine the legitimacy of the entity signing the deed or mortgage, etc.
There is a lot of work involved in “risk elimination” as opposed to risk
assumption common to casualty insurance. In addition, there are some risks
title insurers often assume that cannot be determined by a search of the
records, such as possession, inchoate labor or material lien rights, matters
only a survey or inspection would show such as encroachments or easement
rights, etc. If those elements are pursued, additional expense and work is
required, and are not done by a computer. And certainly, if there are
inchoate lien rights that have priority over the insured interest,
underwriting the risk that they are not paid to defend against attempted
enforcement is a not insignificant task – performed by people and not
computers.
By the way, many western states require title companies to own and maintain
title “plants” which include copies of the documents in the public records.
While this may avoid the need for an abstractor to sit at the courthouse
conducting a search of the deed books, it still requires those company
documents to be maintained and insured, and the records sifted and reviewed.
Also – record searches must be current as of the moment of closing, whether
that is at a table closing with attorneys for the buyer, seller, lender,
etc., sitting with the papers to be signed and sent off for recording, or in
an escrow closing conducted by an attorney or licensed “limited practice”
officer – in many states by an employee of the title company. Typically
funds are passed and the deal is sealed only when the title company can
confirm recordation of the insured documents and conduct a final records
search to confirm nothing has intervened since the last check. This latter
can be problematic in many jurisdictions, and the title company will often
assume the risk for such “gap” matters.
A real estate closing involves a lot of moving parts, and the title element
involves labor to get to the point of writing a policy. The “title company”
might be the insurer (the underwriter) with direct access to the public
records or an agent for the underwriter that does the work and writes the
underwriter’s policy. In the latter case, the fee split simply represents an
agreed-upon work/insurance ratio, but that same work has to be done either
by employees of the underwriter or an agent.
So – the title insurance premium may be considered high by the consumer, but
what fee isn’t? Real estate transactions involve many costs to the parties –
legal, if a lawyer is retained, escrow, transfer or mortgage taxes, the
Realtor® commission, tax prorations, lien payoffs, a survey in some
instances, recording fees, etc., and it is not fair to single out one and
arbitrarily assume it is excessive. But the protections provided by a title
policy are significant, and generally not readily absorbed by a homeowner if
there is no insurance policy.
A significant portion of a casualty policy premium is “insurance” and thus
the claims-to-premium income ratio is higher. Claims paid by title insurers
(a large portion of which involves litigation costs to defend the title and
not just paying off an encumbrance) while a smaller percentage of premium
income, are a larger percentage of the “insurance” element of the premium
income, since most of the income pays for the labor and other expenses to
produce the product.
Many risks are assumed, including errors made by the title company in the
posting of deed and mortgage data (whether entered by hand or computer) so
that a relevant document isn’t seen, or simply overlooked in the search, or
misread by the examiner who peruses all the possible documents affecting
title. Such errors – which can be made by a computer as well as a person –
are not an element of risk common to casualty insurers, and certainly not
assumed by the insured.
By the way – a proposed insured or counsel might argue that a particular
lien, while asserted, is not valid and would be defeated in the event of a
suit to enforce it. This argument is often made by a proposed insured or
counsel with the assumption that the title company will simply assume that
risk (that is, ignore it) but it would do so at a significant peril – the
insurer might well expend more in the cost of defense than the amount of the
lien, and most certainly substantially more than the premium collected. The
insurer will respect that the request should be made by the proposed insured
or counsel, but deserves respect for whatever its decision is – to insure or
not to insure.
The title company interacts with the seller, the buyer, the lender, the
Realtor®, the lender the surveyor, the county recorder’s office, the
assessor and treasurer, other local and state taxing and assessment
agencies, the court system, the Secretary of State. It must understand all
of them – their interests, needs and requirements, and work hand-in-hand
with each and all of them in the complex process of closing a transaction.
You wouldn’t think that a book could be written about this issue, but there
are indeed necessary elements of professionalism, skill and (what a
non-title person might consider) arcane knowledge involved in the title
insurance industry – which evolved from a myriad of conveyancing practices
dating to Colonial times and before.
My two cents…
George
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While the industry has continued to make the assertion that they charge so
much because of the upfront costs are so high and the length of coverage so
long, I do not find the arguments persuasive. The vast majority of
“underwriting” on residential mortgages is now performed by computer. There
is no real work involved and the capital costs have already been baked in
long ago.
Dan Mulligan
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As I recall, what took LandAmerica down was not title insurance but rather
playing fast and loose with 1031 exchange trust funds (buying some sort of
derivative which cratered) and that is what took the entire operation down.
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The 2006 Forbes article describes LandAmerica as being “fat and thriving.”
Given that it filed for bankruptcy barely two years later, that didn’t
really age well, did it?
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