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Old Republic National Title Insurance Company (Old Republic National Title) is one of the largest title insurers in the United States. We operate through a national network of Company-owned offices, affiliates, authorized agents and approved attorneys, which allows us to service our customers in both large and small markets across the country.
Several Minneapolis abstract companies were acquired in 1929, and our corporate name was changed to Title Insurance Company of Minnesota (Minnesota Title). We also signed our first agents that year.
In 1941, Minnesota Title became one of the first title companies to conduct business across state lines by becoming licensed and signing agents in Florida. The states of Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, and Utah soon followed. Today, we are licensed in 48 states and the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
In 1978, Old Republic International Corporation (ORI), a multi-line insurance holding company headquartered in Chicago, purchased Minnesota Title. The Old Republic Title Insurance Group (ORTIG) was formed as ORI's title insurance holding company in 1980, with Minnesota Title as the national underwriting company and our affiliated companies as members. With Minnesota Title's purchase of Mississippi Valley Title Insurance Company, Jackson, Mississippi, ORTIG gained a second, regional underwriter. In 1993, Old Republic National Title began issuing joint title policies with Mississippi Valley Title in Mississippi, Alabama and parts of Tennessee. The Group gained a third underwriter with the acquisition of American Guaranty Title Co. of Oklahoma City in 1996.
Also in 1980, Founders Title Group, Minnesota Title's largest California agent, became a sister-company through its acquisition by ORI. Lincoln Title Company, another Minnesota Title agent in California, was purchased by ORI in 1988, giving the ORTIG family an even stronger foothold in one of the country's fastest growing real estate markets. Another sister company, Founders Title Insurance Corporation, was formed in 1989 to reinsure all of the title policies issued by the Founders Title Group in the Western States in which it conducts business.