Title insurers go to extremes to get business

First a warning, then a widespread investigation, and now a fine.

You get the feeling that Mike Kreidler knows who is providing some of the wonderful food, flowers and giveaways at Realtor open houses, and he would like it stopped.

Kreidler, the Washington state insurance commissioner, recently announced that his office had fined Ticor Title Insurance Co. and First American Title a total of $35,000 for violating regulations that limit the use of incentives and inducements to obtain title insurance business.

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