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Claims are in the Eye of the Beholder
Find out more about claims decisions based on policy provisions. Ever wondered how to explain to your client what the policy even covers? Find out more about the contractual obligations of the title insurer and the insured. Did you know the covered risks are subject to exclusions and exceptions? Would you like to learn the difference between exclusions and exceptions? Would you like to learn how to translate the policy into real situations your clients may find themselves in, so you can assist and advise them?
- Speaker: Megan Crandall Solomon, Claims Counsel, The Fund
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FR/Bar, ASIS, CRISP and Local Contract Comparison, Recent Changes and Challenging Provisions
Understand important distinctions between FR/BAR and other residential forms. Be aware of issues with current FR/BAR provisions and pending efforts to address them. Gain strategies for most effective use of provisions in the forms such as title curative provisions and dispute resolution.
- Speaker: Thomas Wright, Sole Practitioner, Law Offices of Thomas D. Wright, Chartered
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Fund Member as Legislator: A Conversation with Senator Kathleen Passidomo
- Speaker: Melissa Murphy, Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel and Secretary, The Fund
- Speaker: Kathleen C. Passidomo, State Senator, Florida
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Hotels and Mixed-Use Resort Development
Resort and Mixed-Use Development Overview, Development Process and Lien Free Completion, Management and Franchise Agreements, Branded Residential and Whole Ownership Rental Programs
- Speaker: Andrew Robins, Partner, Akerman, LLP
- Speaker: Susan Robin, Partner, Akerman, LLP
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Legislative Update
Keep abreast of changes to existing the laws that affect your practice. Learn of new laws that have passed that will affect your practice going forward. Understand trends in the market conditions that may invite legislative changes and encourages members to think about the laws how they affect your practice and to become an advocate for the industry.
- Speaker: Charles Nostra, Senior Underwriting Counsel, The Fund
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Love and Marriage: Homestead Rules and Tenants by Entirety
How a tenancy by the entireties is created, what protections it affords, the limitations it imposes, and how it is destroyed. How marital status affects homestead property, restraints on alienation, and what waiver can be relied upon for title insuring purposes. How marital status impacts the enforceability of liens against one party to the marriage.
- Speaker: Rebecca Wood, Senior Underwriting Counsel, The Fund
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Qualified Opportunity Zone Investments: Where Are We Now?
Current state of the Qualified Opportunity Zone (QOZ) program, including updates from the Department of Treasury’s regulations. The benefits and potential draw backs to investing in a QOZ and how to invest in one. Comparing the QOZ program to Section 1031 exchanges with practical examples.
- Speaker: Justin Wallace, Attorney, Hill Ward Henderson
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To Trust or Not to Trust: Beware the Abundance of Choices
Trust varieties and legal requirements for holding title. Preventing litigation to establish title. It’s Never too late for a cure.
- Speaker: Silvia Rojas, Senior Underwriting Counsel, The Fund
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What Were They Thinking? Avoiding Issues that Turn Away Clients, Turn Off Staff and Turn into Malpractice
Overcome misperceptions from the other side of the table to enhance your ability to close a deal. Identify considerations important to clients that think differently than you Improve your ability to expand your clientele, and to attract top notch staff.
- Speaker: Michael Gelfand, Managing Shareholder, Gelfand & Arpe, P.A.
- Speaker: Brenda Ezell, Shareholder, Ezell Law Firm, P.A.
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