Focus Investment Associates, Inc. v. American Title Insurance Company, Focus Investment Associates, Inc. v. American Title Insurance Company

STAHL, Circuit Judge.

In these cross-appeals, we explore, inter alia, the parameters of a title insurance company’s duty to disclose title defects to its insured, a lender-mortgagee. The district court, finding that no such duty existed, granted a post-judgment motion for judgment as a matter of law in favor of defendant American Title Insurance Co. (“American”), thus nullifying a jury verdict awarding $286,-000 in negligence damages to plaintiff Focus Investment Associates, Inc. (“Focus”). 1 Focus appeals that ruling, as well as others related to it. American, meanwhile, argues that the…