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In 1988, First American began to operate internationally with the opening of title insurance offices in Canada. International operations continued to expand from there onwards, and First American was the first title insurance provider in Mexico, Korea and Hong Kong, having the leading market share in Australia and England.
First American, one of the largest title insurers in the U.S., maintains a list of some 70 possible defects, including: A forged deed. An undisclosed divorce. Undisclosed tax liens.
The first title insurance company, the Law Property Assurance and Trust Society, was formed in Pennsylvania in 1853. [1] Typically the real property interests insured are fee simple ownership or a mortgage. However, title insurance can be purchased to insure any interest in real property, including an easement, lease, or life estate.
Old ad for American National Bank, predating its name change to First American. First American National Bank was a subsidiary of First American Corporation, a financial institution based in Nashville, Tennessee, that served the states of Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia and Virginia. It was headquartered in the First American Center in downtown ...
First American Title Insurance Company Unveils myFirstAm™ Application for Android™ SANTA ANA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- First American Title Insurance Company,a leading provider of title ...
First American may refer to: A name for the first humans to settle the Americas, the ancestors of today's Native Americans The first group in the peopling of the Americas; First American, a division of the now-defunct Bank of Credit and Commerce International; First American National Bank, now part of AmSouth Bank
The first company in Texas which arose out of the merging concepts of abstract, title and insurance, Gracy was founded from an existing abstract of title company, as James V. Bergen and Company in 1873 by surveyor James Valentine Bergen and George B. Zimpelman, a former Travis County Texas sheriff, land developer and owner of LBJ Ranch. As ...
LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc. was the third largest title insurance group in the US. It was incorporated in 1991 as Lawyers Title Corporation, and renamed LandAmerica after Lawyers Title acquired Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company and Transnation Title Insurance Company in 1998. It was headquartered in Glen Allen, Virginia.