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Servicers Take Note: Louisiana Now Allows Insurers to Offer Borrowers Stated Value Property Insurance Policies

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What Happened? Mortgage servicers should take note that on June 30, 2025, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed into law HB 356 (2025 La. Acts 480) creating the Stated Value Policy Act (the “Act”) which allows insurers to...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Insurers in the securitisation market: Securitisations of lifetime mortgages

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We have seen a marked increase in the volume of structured finance transactions involving lifetime mortgage products in recent years (both funding transactions and the sale and purchase of lifetime mortgage books through...more

DarrowEverett LLP

Blacklisted Condos: A Growing Crisis for Owners and Buyers

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The blacklisting of condominium/condo associations by financial institutions and insurance providers has emerged as a pressing issue in the real estate finance and housing sector. This practice, which involves lenders or...more

Goodwin

SEC Releases 2021 Examination Priorities

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In this Issue. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Examinations released its 2021 Examination Priorities and issued a risk alert noting that “Digital Asset Securities” entail characteristics and...more

Polsinelli

Lender's Edge Newsletter: January 2018

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Are Lenders Entitled to Insurance Proceeds When Foreclosing? A lender’s right to insurance proceeds after foreclosure depends on the type of loss payable clause contained in the insurance policy and the timing of the loss....more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

Title Insurance: What is its Value?

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As I type this blog post, I am sitting at my desk with a four-inch-thick binder filled with title insurance forms—form policies, form endorsements, premium rate tables, survey requirements, etc.—and it occurs to me that many...more

Carlton Fields

Real Property, Financial Services & Title Insurance Update: Weeks Ending July 31 & August 7, 2015

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Foreclosure: non-borrower owner of real property as tenants-in-common with borrower not required to sign mortgage for borrower to encumber only his interest in the property and non-borrower’s signature on mortgage reflected...more

Burr & Forman

PHH Wins Stay of $109M CFPB Enforcement Penalty

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On August 5, 2015, PHH Corp. (“PHH”) won a stay of the $109M penalty handed down by Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) director Rich Cordray. Cordray’s aggressive legal reasoning and the harsh penalties he imposed,...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

New York Continues Pressure on Force-Placed Insurance

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Force-placed insurance remains in the crosshairs of New York financial regulators. Last week, the state’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) sent a warning letter to all New York-licensed insurance producers about...more

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CFPB Takes Action Against Mortgage Insurers To End Kickbacks To Lenders

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The CFPB has announced four enforcement actions to end what the Bureau believes to be improper kickbacks paid by mortgage insurers to mortgage lenders in exchange for business. The CFPB filed complaints and proposed consent...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

CFPB announces settlement of four enforcement actions against mortgage insurers

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The CFPB announced the settlement of enforcement actions brought in federal district court in Florida against four national mortgage insurers involving allegations that the insurers paid kickbacks to mortgage lenders in...more

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