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57 Tort Trial & Ins. Prac. L.J. 461 (2022)
Recent Developments in Title Insurance Coverage Law

handle is hein.journals/ttip57 and id is 479 raw text is: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN TITLE INSURANCE COVERAGE LAW Charles Allen Yuen I. Introduction ................................................................................. 461 II. Who Is the Insured? ....................................................................461 III. What Is Insured?..........................................................................462 IV Exclusions.....................................................................................464 V. Exceptions....................................................................................465 V I. Statutes of Lim itations.................................................................467 VII. Claim Assignment ........................................................................467 VIII. Trials/Experts/Bad Faith..............................................................468 I. INTRODUCTION With few exceptions, the written coverage decisions involving title policies for the year ending in December 2021 were straightforward given policy language and the matters alleged. On the face of these decisions, the indus- try's claims denials appear to have been reasonable. II. WHO IS THE INSURED? In Tithonus Partners II, LP v. Chicago Title Insurance Co.,' a grantee from the original insured claimed that it had become an insured under a title policy as a successor by distribution where it had owned 99.9% of the original insured and the remaining 0.1% had been owned by a general partner of the original insured. Because the original insured continued to 1. No. 2:20-CV-952, 2021 WL 4711284, at *6 (W.D. Pa. Oct. 8, 2021) (applying Pennsyl- vania law). Charles Allen Yuen is principal attorney at Charles Allen Yuen LLC (of Madison & Short Hills, New Jersey). 461

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