Bulletin: TX2018001

Dear Associates:

Please allow this bulletin to serve as a reminder of the procedure for submitting your Annual Escrow Audits. The audit copies for Stewart Title Guaranty Company should be forwarded to: 

Stewart Title Guaranty Company - Austin
Attn: Texas Licensing Coordinator
805 Las Cimas Parkway, Building 3, Suite 330
Austin, TX  78746
Phone: 1-800-252-9229 (Ext. 2)
512-362-6886 (Direct)
Fax: 512-342-7061

Please note that the preferred method of delivery is to send a scanned copy to:
texaslicensing@stewart.com

All agencies in Texas are required by the Texas Department of Insurance to have audits of their escrow accounts performed annually by an independent licensed Certified Public Accountant. Within 90 days following the agent's fiscal year end, the audit must be completed and sent to the Texas Department of Insurance and each underwriter represented by the agent (see P-49).  

STG would like to remind you of our procedures regarding these audits:   

1. We have a schedule of all of the Texas agencies, including fiscal year ends, which we will use to track receipt of the audit reports. If for any reason you change your fiscal year end with the Department of Insurance, please be sure to inform Stewart at the above-referenced address and/or phone number of your new date. 
    
2. If STG has not received the audit report within 100 days of your fiscal year end, (10 days past the due date to TDI), we will notify your Agency Services Manager, who in turn will contact the agency and request a copy of the report.
3. If on the 119th day following the agency's fiscal year, (29 days past the due date to TDI), we still have not received the audit report, STG is required by TDI to file a notice alerting them to the fact that the audit report is delinquent.  

STG would like to thank you for your support in following the above procedures and also for your continuing business relationship with our company. 

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