Back Creek Partners, LLC v. First American Title Insurance

This case is about title insurance, specifically what it does and doesn’t cover. Back Creek Partners, LLC (“Back Creek”) seeks (after the fact) to recover the attorneys’ fees and costs it incurred in defending itself (successfully) in a lawsuit sorting out the easement and access rights in a waterfront community Back Creek developed. The Circuit Court for Montgomery County granted summary judgment to Back Creek’s insurer, appellee First American Title Insurance Company (“First American”). We agree that the claims as*706serted in the third-party litigation against Back Creek fall outside the…