Here is what we cover in this issue of Title Insurance Update Autumn 2023-
• “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....
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