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Company: Premier Title Insurance Agency, Inc.
Penalty: $175,000
Year: 2008
Date: February 13, 2008
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: insurance violation
Violation Description: Premier Title Insurance agreed to pay a $175,000 civil penalty in settlement of allegations it set up affiliated companies, in part ownership with referral partners, and then violated federal and state law when it paid kickbacks to encourage referral partners to provide Premier Title with title insurance business, used unlicensed referral partners, and failed to ensure that referral partners properly disclosed their affiliated business relationship to customers.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Minnesota Department of Commerce
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Minnesota
Facility City: Edina
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