Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that insures, especially an insurance underwriter.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which insures or makes sure or certain.
  • noun One who contracts, in consideration of a stipulated payment called a premium, to indemnify a person or company against certain perils or losses, or against a particular event; an underwriter.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, insures; the person or company that contracts to indemnify losses for a premium; an underwriter.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who insures.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a financial institution that sells insurance

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Examples

  • For example, your real-estate closing attorney does not disclose that he is accepting a "kickback" from the title insurer he has hired to safeguard the home you are purchasing.

    Gary S. Chafetz: SUPREME COURT FINALLY GUTS HONEST-SERVICE FRAUD 2010

  • Cathy Pearson, an elementary school teacher who recently bought her first home, in San Clemente, Calif., says she accepted as “a given” the title insurer chosen by real-estate agents involved in the transaction.

    Title-Insurer Fees Draw Scrutiny 2009

  • Fidelity National Financial fell 3.30, or 15%, to 19.30 after the title insurer said it would sell 13.3 million shares.

    Goldman Drops 12%, but Blackstone Rises 2009

  • The title insurer already owned a 9.5 percent stake.

    Reuters: Top News 2012

  • That means the odds of a challenge to your ownership are slim enough that the title insurer is willing to agree to defend you.

    Foreclosures at Rock-Bottom Prices 2011

  • The title insurer already owned a 9.5 percent stake.

    Reuters: Press Release 2012

  • With it, the title insurer will either "perfect the title" or pay any valid claims.

    Foreclosures at Rock-Bottom Prices 2011

  • With it, the title insurer will either "perfect the title" or pay any valid claims.

    Foreclosures at Rock-Bottom Prices 2011

  • That means the odds of a challenge to your ownership are slim enough that the title insurer is willing to agree to defend you.

    Foreclosures at Rock-Bottom Prices 2011

  • July 16 (Bloomberg) -- Fidelity National Financial Inc., the title insurer that called the industry an "oligopoly," agreed to sell assets in Oregon and Michigan to settle a regulatory review into anticompetitive practices.

    BusinessWeek.com -- 2010

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