You must be new to this forum because this debate gone on for 18 months. You are missing the point. Quality of workmanship is precisely the issue here. It sounds like you have had a bad experience with native service providers. You may have been using the services of uninsured and inexperienced abstractors. The problem is easily remedied by screening your abstractors more carefully for insurance and experience. This also has been the subject of much discussion here. Please do a search of past threads. You will have enough reading material to occupy yourself for some time.
However, the point is that abstracting services outsourced to the third world can not be done as accurately. I assume that the title insurer for whom you issue policies wants to know what it is insuring. That is the purpose of a title search. The work outsourced to the third world of necessity depends on online source material which may or may not have been correctly transcribed, may or may not contain the most up to date day book information, may or may not contain current tax information, almost certainly does not contain probate court information, civil court foreclosure information or bankruptcy court information other than docketing material. There is also the issue of whether a foreign abstractor is able to understand the impact of each encumbrance on the title to a property. This would be especially true of encumbrances that are uniquely American in character. So please explain to me how this work that is outsourced to a foreign culture is as reliable as the work performed by American abstractors....unless the common denominator for your title search criteria is the cheap price of the search rather than its accuracy and completeness.
If you feel that your interests would be better served by outsourcing your work to India, the Phillipines or China, go for it. Good luck in trying to process a claim in the courts of India or trying to enforce a judgment of a
U S District Court through the courts of India. You might want to take a look at the SOT home page. There is an interesting article on a title insurance company having to pay a rather large claim because it relied on information garnered from an electronic search
You make it sound as though the American worker is comming to you with his hat in hand looking for a favor. Such is not the case. There is a depth of experience that you are overlooking.
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