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- From: "hilary miller" <hilary.miller@execnet.com>
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: title insurance
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.1297.20316@execnet>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 02:10:15 EST
- Reply-To: "hilary miller" <hilary.miller@execnet.com>
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- Marc T. Kaufman, in a message to All on 11-15-92 at 3:07am, said:
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- MT>|Not necessarily. They are only obligated to pay damages if the propert
- |is taken, not to defend you against the taking. My neighbor is suing m
- |for adverse possession of just over 1 acre of my property, which requir
- |payment of taxes on my land, which the title company should have found
- |it were true, which it is not). The title company won't help in my def
- |because they know I will win the case and they won't have to pay any cl
- |In their generosity, they have indicated they *might* be willing to pay
- |much as $5000 towards my $80,000 in legal fees.
- |_______________________________________________________________________
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- Read your policy. The standard ALTA policy
- states, "...the Company, at its own cost and with-
- out unreasonable delay, shall provide for the de-
- fense of the insured in litigation in which any
- third party asserts a claim adverse to the title
- or interest as insured...." The fact that the
- insurer considers the claim to be frivolous does
- not constitute grounds for breach of its duty to
- defend. I'd complain to your state insurance com-
- missioner.
-
-
- L A
- I R Hilary B. Miller of Greenwich, Connecticut
- H/\Y CIS: 76040,1743
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