Title Insurance

While once considered low-risk occupations, real estate and title agents, appraisers, abstracters and mortgage brokers today confront a virtual epidemic of litigation focusing on all aspects of their practices. To minimize the risk of liability to real estate professionals, buyers, and sellers, Tunnell & Raysor lawyers counsel their clients on the pitfalls that may prompt lawsuits. Our attorneys have extensive experience representing title insurance companies or their insureds in complex real estate transactions and coverage litigation. We routinely handle matters involving:

• Title defects
• Conflicting claims of lien priority
• Identity theft
• Easements
• Forged deeds of trust
• Boundary line and encroachment disputes
• Equitable subordination
• Claims of escrow defalcation
• Disputes between competing lien holders and owners involving works of improvement
• Mechanic's liens.

We also regularly provide coverage advice to title insurers and we represent title insurers in insurance coverage-related litigation.