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Housing Hearing entitled "Title Insurance: Cost and Competition." Click Here for Prepared Testimony

Representatives from the American Land Title Association (ATLA), the national trade association for the land title industry, today appeared before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity of the House Committee on Financial Services in a hearing entitled, “Title Insurance: Cost and Competition.”  Representing the association was Rande Yeager, president and CEO of Old Republic National Title Insurance Company and current ALTA president.

The hearing followed a request by Committee Chairman Michael Oxley to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) for a study of the nation’s title insurance marketplace, and the regulation and competitive nature of the title insurance industry.

Related ALTA Docuements:

• ALTA's Full Testimony (150 kb - 43 page PDF File)
• ALTA's Supporting Documents (27.4 Mb - 253 page PDF File)
• ALTA Press Release

Additional Links and Documents:

• GAO Report:
  • Title Insurance: Preliminary Views and Issues for Further Study
• Preliminary Views and Issues for Further Study - Summary
• House Subcommittee Press Release on Hearing