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Here are reasons why buyers need to buy title insurance, explanations of owner's title policies and lender policies and a list of national insurers.
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Chicago Title Insurance
Chicago Title Insurance is one of the oldest continuously operating title insurance companies in the country, having started in Chicago in 1847. Types of title policies, coverage and rates.
First American Title Insurance
First American has more than 1200 offices across the United States and bills itself as the number one global leader in title insurance operations.
Stewart Title Company
Stewart Title was established in 1893 and has more than 9,000 offices across the United States, and a few international markets.
American Land Title Assocaiation
Based in Washington, D. C., just about every title company, abstracter or title agent belongs to the American Land Title Association. The ALTA, founded in 1907, is a public resource for title insurance research, forms, surveys, handbooks, guidelines, standards and arbitration.
American Congress on Surveying & Mapping
American Congress on Surveying & Mapping is a nonprofit educational organization comprised of professional surveyors, cartographers and geodesists. Its core objective is to advance the science of surveying and mapping.
Investors Title Company
Investors Title Company began in 1972 in North Carolina. Today is boasts operations in more than 17 states, primarily in the East and Midwest.
LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc.
Headquartered in Virginia with more than 900 worldwide branch offices, LandAmerica offers title insurance through such companies as Commonwealth, Lawyers Title, Transnation® Title and Title Insurance Company of America.
Mercury Companies
Mercury Companies began as Security Title in 1947. Today it is a national leader of independent title agency organizations, boasting more than 400 offices and 6000 employees.
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
Operating through a national network of company-owned branch offices, Old Republic Title is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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