Legal Opinion
Fidelity National Title Insurance Company of New York v. Intercounty National Title Insurance Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 17, 2005No. 04-2335PublishedCited by 124 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPosner, Circuit Judge
The plaintiff in this complicated commercial case, which is in the federal courts under the diversity jurisdiction, lost a jury trial and appeals, complaining about three pretrial rulings, all procedural.
In a typical house purchase, involving a mortgage and title insurance, the mortgage lender places the money for the loan in an escrow account administered by an escrow agent and insured by a title insurance company. A title insurance company named Intercounty National Title Insurance Company (INTIC) reinsured escrow accounts with the plaintiff, Fidelity. As a result of fraud by INTIC’s owners…
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