The purpose of the Title Insurance Guaranty Act is to provide a mechanism for continuation of coverage and payment of covered claims under certain title insurance policies, to avoid excessive delay in payment and avoid financial loss to policyholders because of insolvency of a title insurer, to assist in detection and prevention of title insurer insolvencies and to provide an association to assess the cost of such protection among title insurers.
History: Laws 1999, ch. 60, § 2.
ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 1999, ch. 60 contained no effective date provision, but, pursuant to N.M. Const., art. IV, § 23, was effective June 18, 1999, 90 days after adjournment of the legislature.