Marking Up Title Commitments, Eliminating Exceptions & Getting Endorsements (Recorded)

How to skillfully fine-tune a residential and commercial real estate title insurance policy

The ability to facilitate real estate closings and procure title insurance for buyers and lenders is a necessary skill in today’s real estate market. Title examination, analysis, risk assessment, and mitigation are all key elements in determining whether and how to insure a transaction, what endorsements may be needed and whether they can be issued, and satisfying the insurer’s requirements to obtain the desired title insurance coverage.

This nuts-and-bolts program guides you through the practical aspects of preparing and reviewing a title commitment to producing the final policy with appropriate endorsements to enhance the policy’s coverage. Topics include reading and understanding a title report, curing title problems, satisfying requirements, identifying and drafting relevant exceptions, and adding requested coverage to the policy via endorsements, with an emphasis on typical underwriting requirements for common commercial endorsements. The panel features both title insurance underwriting counsel and the lender’s counsel perspective. Attorneys and paralegals alike benefit from attending this program. PROGRAM SPONSOR