Applying the Law and Handling Disputes
Our Title Insurance Litigation practice works with transactional, insurance carrier, and litigation clients to navigate the multifaceted legal arena of title litigation, coverage analysis, refinance, loan due diligence, purchase, and development for our client’s insurance and real estate needs.
We help commercial and residential property owners, lenders, insurance carriers, and title companies with their strategic initiatives from defending against legal attacks, title ownership challenges, and lien disputes. We develop plans for achieving the client’s desired results, including establishing a policy for title insurance needs and defending title coverage and disagreements as to lien, development, and ownership interests.
McCormick Barstow’s attorneys have experience in governmental services, loan origination and due diligence, commercial development, white-collar crime analysis, and triage transactions. We represent clients in their business and title insurance efforts through foreclosures, quiet title actions, defalcation/real estate fraud, declaratory judgment actions, coverage opinions and disputes, eminent domain, lien enforcement and priority, ownership retention, and asset recovery, including—
- Zoning and Eminent Domain Litigation
- Title Policy Coverage Implementation, Opinion, and Litigation
- Clearance of Title Defects and Lien Priority/Enforcement Challenges
- Access and Easement Disputes
- Commercial Project Due Diligence: Seller, Purchaser, or Loan
- Ownership Disputes: Quiet Title, Marketable Title, Legal Survey, and Decedent’s Estates
- Bankruptcy adversary, preference, and creditor priority challenges
- Coverage Opinion and/or Defense for Insurance Carriers and Title Companies
- Fraudulent Transfer Litigation
- Construction Project and Mechanic’s Liens
- Defalcation Investigation and White Collar Crime Recovery Cases
- Market Conduct Exam Analysis and Representation
- Legislative, and Administrative Relations at Municipal, County, and State Government
- Bona Fide Purchaser and Equitable Subrogation Rights
- Lender/Creditor Enforcement: Foreclosure, Executions, and Replevin
- Commercial and Development Projects and Litigation: Loan Disbursements and Lien Risks
- Reconciliation of Escrow Account and Transaction Records
- Declaratory Actions: Escrow Preservation, Professional Liability, and Coverage Disputes
- Breach of Contract Research, Analysis, and Litigation
- Crisis Management: Insureds, Loan Fraud, and Business Interruption/Closure
