Your top title insurance questions, answered
Jul 22nd | By FCT
Title insurance can easily seem like another unnecessary add-on to the already complicated and costly process of buying a house, but nothing could be further from the truth. It can help speed up the…
Duty to defend: Another tool to help care for your clients
Jul 15th | By FCT
What is duty to defend? In title insurance, duty to defend means if anyone challenges or raises an issue that is covered under a title insurance policy, the insurer pays all the…
When a lawyer’s assumption turned into an unforeseen expense
Jul 8th | By FCT
In late 2019, Sue-Ann Smith*, a lawyer practicing in Nova Scotia acting on behalf of her client, made an assumption that resulted in a taxation error on the statement of adjustments. Using…
Land assembly: Vancouver’s answer to the question of supply
Jul 5th | By FCT
What is land assembly? Land assembly is the joining of multiple adjacent parcels of land to form a single site that can then be used to construct a larger property. Due to…
