Title insurers provide insurance to protect consumers from losses if it is discovered after a real estate transaction that someone else can claim ownership of the property.
Title companies and insurers
Title companies must be admitted to do business in our state, pay premium taxes, make rate and form filings and report certain types of data each year.
Resources for your organization
- Find premium tax instructions, due dates, and schedules for title companies registered in Washington, including domestic and foreign companies.
- Find premium tax instructions, due dates, and schedules for title companies registered in Washington, including domestic and foreign companies.
- Find premium tax instructions, due dates, and schedules for title companies registered in Washington, including domestic and foreign companies.
- Find premium tax instructions, due dates, and schedules for title companies registered in Washington, including domestic and foreign companies.
- Find premium tax instructions, due dates, and schedules for title companies registered in Washington, including domestic and foreign companies.
- Find premium tax instructions, due dates, and schedules for title companies registered in Washington, including domestic and foreign companies.
- Learn about the financial statements and other documents insurers and health carriers must file with our office and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC).
- Find guidance and requirements for filing a biographical affidavit, also known as Form 11.
- What you owe for fraud and regulatory surcharges depends on your organization's type and the premiums you reported on last year's tax form.
- Learn what title companies need to file as part of their annual financial information filing requirements.
- Get information about how property and casualty, life, disability and title companies can apply for admission to do business in Washington state.
- Insurers and producers are required to notify our office when security breaches occur that involve private consumer information (i.e., Social Security numbers, etc.).
- Learn about the guidelines for properly submitting your SERFF filings in Washington state.
- Learn about the rate and form filing requirements for title insurance companies.
- Each title insurer must report certain data annually to a statistical reporting agent designated by our office. This information must be reported by May 31 of each year.