Continuing Education

Maryland Education for Title Professionals

We provide Continuing Education courses in live webinar, recorded video, and written formats.
In Maryland, Title Insurance Producers must renew their license every two years. Renewal requires the completion of thirteen hours of title CE credit, plus three hours of ethics CE credit. Each of our courses is state-approved and will help you fulfill the requirement.

Remote Online Notarizations in Maryland

Maryland’s Notary Law changes in significant ways effective October 1, 2020. These changes include updated requirements for conducting Remote Online Notarizations in Maryland.

View our webinar and learn everything you need to know about complying with our new notary statute called RULONA. You will be guided through this presentation by Ned Livornese, an experienced Maryland attorney and underwriter for a national title insurance company.

3 Hours of CE Credit:
Webinar – Recorded – on demand
Cost: $95 – Click Here to Pay and Register

How to Perform Residential Settlements in Maryland

This four-hour continuing education class will prepare you to conduct a residential closing in Maryland.
Instructor: Ned Livornese, Esq.

4 Hours of CE Credit:
Webinar – Recorded – on demand
Cost: $145 – Click Here to Pay and Register

Title Insurance Agents Acting Badly
(Or How to Personally Meet Your State or Federal Enforcement Agent!)

This course fulfills the 3-hour requirement for Ethics Continuing Education credit for title professionals.

3 Hours of Ethics CE Credit:
Webinar – Live and Recorded – on demand
Cost: $95 – Click Here to Pay and Register

Title insurance is full of potential pitfalls. You need to know what state and federal regulators are looking for, so that you don’t end up on their “naughty list!”

This presentation reviews 14 real-life situations in which title agents got into more trouble than they ever counted on. Learn from the mistakes of others about how to keep your own house clean and trouble-free! It is taught by Ned Livornese, a Maryland attorney and title insurance underwriter with more than 30 years of experience in the title insurance, mortgage, and real estate industries.

You’ll be talking about this class for a long time to come!

How to Solve the 20 Most Annoying Underwriter Problems

This is a five-hour continuing education class for Maryland title professionals.
Instructor: Ned Livornese, Esq.

5 Hours of CE Credit:
Self Study
Cost: $125 – Click Here to Pay and Register

Let’s face it: most underwriting issues happen over and over again. Clearing title and obtaining underwriting approval can be annoying and time-consuming! What if you had the tools to clear more files on your own, and become more productive and less aggravated in the process?

Attend this lively and informative seminar presented by Ned Livornese, an experienced title insurance agency owner, agency counsel, and national underwriter. Ned will take you through 20 of the most annoying underwriting problems, with a checklist of proposed solutions that you can try before waiting for hours or days to get your answer.

Here’s a sample of the topics addressed in this 5-hour Maryland CE course (no ethics credits offered):

Clearing unreleased deeds of trust
Legal description problems
Can I get a statute of limitations chart for liens and judgments?
Insuring out of tax sales, and why they are such a problem!
Corporations and LLCs: when do I need an operating agreement, bylaws, and/or an entity resolution?
ALTA Endorsements: How to find the correct ALTA numbers, and requirements to issue any endorsement
Does bankruptcy release a debtor’s judgment lien from the property?
Much more!

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Self Study Courses

You can take these continuing education courses from your home or office at any time.

After payment, the course will be e-mailed to you as a pdf. Read the material and take the exam. Then, return the exam answer sheet by e-mail. If you correctly answer at least 70% of the questions, we submit your course completion information to Sircon for your continuing education credit.

You must provide your Maryland Title Producer License number if you want CE credit.