NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT LAND TITLE AGENTS
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To better educate consumers, lawmakers, NAILTA members and industry affiliates – NAILTA has consolidated the most recent information and highlighted title insurance industry whitepapers and articles
Consumer Resources
- What Makes an Independent Title Agent Better?
- Why Choose An Independent Title Agent?
- The Grand Façade: Affiliated Business Arrangements
- NAIC – Consumer Alert – Protecting Your Home Investment Against Unknown Title Defects
- NAIC – Title Insurance Basics
- NAIC – Affiliated Business Arrangements – Flow Chart

Industry Resources
- NAILTA President Speaks to NAIC: Time to Prohibit AfBA’s is now!
- NAIC – Title Insurance: Overview and Key Regulatory Concerns
- NAIC – Addresses Congress on Title Insurance – Testimony Highlights Efforts to Uncover Illegal Kickbacks
- (GAO) – Actions Needed to Improve Oversight of the Title Industry and Better Protect Consumers
- Consumer Advocates in American Real Estate – Executive Director provides Congressional Testimony
- Consumer Advocates in American Real Estate – RESPA and “Required Use” prohibition
- Consumer Federation of America – disputes validity of RESPRO study
- Consumer Federation of America – Title Insurance Cost and Competition
- NAILTA – Fix the Title Insurance Industry: Prohibit Affiliated Business Arrangements
- Closing Protection Letter: WHAT IS (AND IS NOT) COVERED?
- NALTEA – Restoring Integrity to the Land Title Records – A Commentary on MERS
NAILTA White Papers
- 2013 Settlement Preference Survey – consumers are wary about affiliated business arrangements
- How the Fidelity Merger with LPS Negatively Impacts Independent Land Title Agents
- The Premium-to-Surplus Ratio Rule: Helping Title Underwriters Maintain Solvency and Prevent Escrow Theft
- 3 Steps to a Healthier Land Title Record System
- What Makes an Independent Title Agent Better?
- 2009-2010 Ohio Real Estate Settlement Preference Survey Executive Summary
- Title Insurance Agents Do Not Support H.R. 4323, the Consumer Mortgage Choice Act
- NAILTA Supports Extension of the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007
- The Mythology of MERS 2.0: S.B. 1834 is Harmful for the Land Title Insurance Industry and Worse for Local and County Governments
- The Premium-to-Surplus Ratio Rule: Helping Title Underwriters Maintain Solvency and Prevent Escrow Theft
- Third Party Vetting Companies: Are They Legal or Necessary?
- Pro-CBA Forces Reintroduce Harmful Pro-Affiliate Bill H.R. 1077