Michak v. Transnation Title Insurance

In reviewing the trial court’s dismissal on summary judgment of an insured’s breach of contract claim, we must initially determine whether a title insurance company was contractually precluded from amending, prior to issuing its policy, the legal description of the subject property included in its preliminary title commitment. If we determine that the preliminary commitment contained no such bar, we must then consider whether, by initialing at closing the corrected one-page legal description of the property, the insured accepted the insurer’s amendment of the description in its preliminary…