Bulletin: VA2020001

Dear Associates:

We are pleased to announce that Stewart Title Guaranty Company has executed an Amendment to the Inter-Underwriter Indemnity Agreement (the “Agreement”) adding the following additional underwriter (the “Additional Party”) to the Agreement:
AmTrust Title.

Pursuant to the Amendment, Stewart Title Guaranty Company and the Additional Party have agreed to be mutually bound by the terms of the Agreement as of November 29, 2019. The Agreement allows agents of participating title underwriters to issue owner's or lender's title policies without exception to certain known prior defects provided a signed owner's (or in limited circumstances a lender's title policy) has been previously issued by a participating underwriter which does not except to the specific title issue, and provided further that the matter is covered under the Agreement.

Please be sure to carefully review the Agreement and prior Underwriting Bulletins VA2015002, issued October 9, 2015, and VA2016001, issued March 24, 2016, which explain the Agreement in detail. Underwriting Bulletins VA2015002 and VA2016001 remain in effect.

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