Mid America Title Company v. Transnation Title Insurance Company, Cross-Appellee, and Landamerica Financial Group, Inc., Cross-Appellee

ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

In this appeal Mid America Title Company, a title insurance agent, defends a jury verdict it obtained against Transnation Title Insurance Company, a title insurance underwriter, in a diversity suit for breach of contract. Because we conclude that there was insufficient evidence for the jury to find that Transnation was the alter ego of its sibling corporations, we reverse the district court’s judgment.

In 1988, Mid America contracted with Transnation (then known as Transamerica Title Insurance Company) to be its exclusive agent for issuing title insurance…