Terms Used In Tennessee Code 56-35-121

  • Attorney: means the person designated and authorized by subscribers as the attorney-in-fact having authority to obligate them on reciprocal insurance contracts. See Tennessee Code 56-16-102
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Title insurance agent: means either:
    (A) A natural person who meets the requirements of or performs the same functions as a "title insurance agency". See Tennessee Code 56-35-102
  • Title insurance company: means any corporation, foreign or domestic, authorized by its charter to conduct a "title insurance business" as defined by this chapter and is sometimes referred to as "insurer" or "insurers. See Tennessee Code 56-35-102

Nothing in this chapter, or in any other law of this state, shall be construed as preventing or prohibiting any attorney at law, real estate company, firm, broker or salesperson, lending institution, or the officers and employees of any institution, from advocating, recommending or requiring title insurance in any transaction in which they are engaged, nor transmitting to a title insurance agent or title insurance company, qualified in this state, applications for title insurance, arising out of the transactions, together with the charges for transactions, and in so doing no party shall be held to be a title insurer, nor to be engaged in business as a title insurance agent.