What's the deal with title insurance?

If you’ve bought a house (or a condo), you’ve probably bought title insurance to go with it. But what does it do? What does it protect you from? How do you file a claim and what type of trouble could really befall a title? OIC Answers, a podcast from the Washington state Office of the Insurance Commissioner, is back with regular hosts Aaron VanTuyl and Matt Baide to get to the bottom of it. Joined by Josh Martinsen from the OIC’s Consumer Protection team, on this episode the hosts dive into liens, claims, deeds, tax records, maps and surprise heirs to make sure you can avoid all the issues with a complicated property transaction.Visit insurance.wa.gov go learn more and get help with any insurance questions.