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CENTURION PROPERTIES v. CHICAGO TITLE INS.

No. 91932-1.

375 P.3d 651 (2016)

CERTIFICATION FROM THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT IN CENTURION PROPERTIES III, LLC; SMI Group XIV, LLC, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CHICAGO TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, a Nebraska company, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

Filed July 14, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Todd Stuart Fairchild , Peter Scott Ehrlichman , Dorsey & Whitney LLP, 701 5th Avenue Suite 6100, Seattle, WA, 98104-7043, Timothy J. Droske , Steven J. Wells , Dorsey & Whitney, 50 South 6th Street Suite 1500, Minneapolis, MN, 55402, Counsel for Plaintiffs.

Stephen John Sirianni , Ann E. Merryfield , Sirianni Youtz Spoonemore Hamburger, 999 3rd Avenue Suite 3650, Seattle, WA, 98104-4038, Counsel for Defendants.

Matthew J. Segal , Jessica Anne Skelton , Pacifica Law Group LLP, 1191 2nd Avenue Suite 2000, Seattle, WA, 98101-3404, Amicus Curiae on behalf of Washington Land Title Association.

¶ 1 The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit certified the following question to this court: "Does a title company owe a duty of care to third parties in the recording of legal instruments?" We answer the certified question no and hold that title companies do not owe a duty...

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