#MillennialTitle of #Kentucky and #AccessTitle of #NorthCarolina have merged, with plans calling for all locations under the combined company to operate under the Millennial Title name.

#FidelityNationalFinancialInc. has hired a new vicepresident of sales and client services at its subsidiary, #Property Insight. The appointee is a 30-plus-year industry veteran and former general manager at #DataTrace.

Sandra Thompson, #FHFA director, clarified some of the misinformation on the new #GSE pricing #framework.

The pro se plaintiffs stated they were misled into entering the #forbearance and experienced unreasonable delays in the aftermath. #RESPA

The Third Appellate District Court of Appeals of Ohio reversed a lower court ruling in a case brought by a homebuyer who had sent money to scammers instead of an escrow agent after receiving fraudulent wire instructions. It said the lower court was wrong to dismiss the breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty claims against the escrow agent because genuine issues of material fact remain as to whether an implied agreement for escrow services exists.

Data privacy is an ever-evolving area of concern for any industry that handles personal data, and this is especially important for those industries that handle individual’s financial data. Data privacy experts Ryan Cabrita of The Gulotta Grabiner Law Group and Greg Szewczyk of national law firm Ballard Spahr will discuss some of the big up-and-coming topics. Read on for more details.

A key index of U.S. prices ticked up 0.4% in April from March, and consumer spending rebounded 0.8%, a sign that inflationary pressures in the economy remain high.

The court ruled wetlands can only be regulated under the Clean Water Act if they have a “continuous surface connection” to larger, regulated bodies of water.