TITLE 45

LIENS, MORTGAGES AND PLEDGES

CHAPTER 12

RECONVEYANCE

45-1205.  Liability of title insurance agent or underwriter. In the event that a trust deed is reconveyed by a title insurer or title agent purporting to act under the provisions of this chapter, but the obligation secured by the trust deed has not been fully paid, the title insurer or title agent effecting such reconveyance shall be liable to the beneficiary of the trust deed for the damages suffered as a result of such improper reconveyance only if the title insurer or title agent failed to substantially comply with the provisions of section 45-1203 or 45-1204, Idaho Code, or acted with negligence or in bad faith in reconveying the trust deed.

History:

[45-1205, added 1995, ch. 326, sec. 1, p. 1095.]