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In an effort to keep Texas as a leading place to do business, prominent trade associations from across Texas continue to add their voice to the call for competition in the title insurance market. The Texas Business Leadership Council, a statewide network of CEOs that promotes a competitive business environment, […]

April 13th, 2017 – Today, two prominent trade associations threw their weight behind the push for title insurance reform. The Texas Apartment Association (TAA) and the Texas Hotel & Lodging Association (THLA) announced support for bringing competition and transparency to the title insurance market, something both organizations believe will result in […]

Title Insurance Reform Bills Deliver Needed Price Competition, Transparency that will Benefit Consumers and the Economy AUSTIN – Texans for Free Enterprise (TFE) today applauded the authors of two pieces of legislation that will bring badly needed reform to outdated title insurance practices in Texas.

Building upon the title insurance study conducted by UT’s LBJ School of Public Affairs in 2011, David Eaton, Ph.D and Ms. Xue Gao revisited the topic of title insurance competitiveness.Armed with more data from various nationwide

Following the 2009 Texas title insurance rate hearings, researchers from the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin conducted research on title insurance across the U.S. and Canada. The research team reported their findings to the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI). This report […]

A 2016 poll conducted by Baselice and Associates found that 91% of Texans wanted to be able to shop for title insurance like they can for auto and homeowner’s insurance.