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LaRose joins WFG National Title Insurance Company as underwriting counsel

Susan LaRosa, WFG National Title Insurance Company Susan LaRosa, WFG National Title Insurance Company

Springfield, MA Susan LaRose will support WFG National Title Insurance Company (WFG National Title) agents in its New England Agency group as underwriting counsel. WFG National Title is the fastest growing national title insurance underwriting company and a full service provider of real estate services.

LaRose will provide underwriting support, guidance, and education for the underwriter’s New England region title agencies. She also serves as a partner in the law firm of Doucette & LaRose, LLC in Oxford, Mass. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts and Suffolk University Law School, she has concentrated her practice in commercial and residential real estate and conveyancing in both Greater Boston and Worcester County. She is the current president of the Real Estate Bar Association for Massachusetts (REBA), as well as co-chair of REBA’s Title insurance and national affairs committee and an active member of REBA’s residential conveyancing committee.

LaRose is also one of the founders of REBA’s now-established outreach program to residential conveyancers in the local bar associations of Barnstable, Berkshire, Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Norfolk, and Plymouth counties. She is a leader of the REBA Women’s Real Estate Networking Group and a frequent panelist on MCLE programs and at break-out sessions for REBA’s twice-yearly conferences.

“WFG’s agents have just gained access to one of the very best real estate attorneys in New England,” said Gene Rebadow, executive vice president agency, Eastern division for WFG National Title. “She is a natural communicator as well as an astute educator. I know she is eager to become a trusted resource for our agents.”

“Susan is an elite real estate attorney at the forefront of her practice and a true leader in the field,” said Alan Fields, senior vice president and director of underwriting services for WFG National Title. “Her leadership skills, in combination with her expertise, are second to none in New England.”

Portland, Oregon-based WFG National Title Insurance Company, a Williston Financial Group Company, is a national provider of premium title insurance and real estate services to the real estate and mortgage industry. One of the fastest growing national title underwriters, the WFG family was the nation’s sixth largest provider of title insurance after 4Q, 2015. (Based upon market share. Source: American Land Title Association http://www.alta.org/industry/financial.cfm).

WFG National Title also delivers a wide variety of residential and commercial mortgage lender services, including default and real estate owned transactions. The company enjoys a Financial Stability Rating of A’ (A prime) as assigned by Demotech, Inc. Built around the directive to “communicate, collaborate, coexist,” WFG National Title Insurance Company is committed to applying a new philosophy to the traditional mortgage and real estate industry, working to meet the changing needs of its clients, agents and associates.

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