Ginger v. American Title Insurance

Plaintiff Ginger commenced this suit against his title insurer, defendant American Title Insurance Company, for alleged breach of his insurer’s duty to defend a third-party action* 1 brought against plaintiff and others and concerning the validity of plaintiff’s title. This third-party action was brought by George Jonets against George Ginger and Avram Tilvan. Jonets was Tilvan’s judgment creditor and sought to have Tilvan’s conveyance to Ginger of the property in question set aside as fraud upon him, a judgment creditor.

Although requested to do so by its insured, defendant insurance company…