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The doctrine of conventional subrogation in real estate is familiar to most lenders: a new lender that pays the mortgage of a prior one steps into the shoes of – or is subrogated to – the prior lender ...

All real estate professionals and investors are familiar with the concept of the priority of liens. As a general rule, when there are multiple liens recorded against a property, the one that is ...

The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that a party that has had a judgment entered against it was not entitled to seek equitable subrogation from a subsequent tortfeasor when it had not fully satisfied ...

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Lenders, unfortunately, are confronted with the situation in which the validity or priority of a mortgage is challenged based on a prior mortgage not being paid off due to acts ranging from simple ...

Previously published in the July-August 2010 edition of the Journal of the Missouri Bar. Overview. This article discusses the recent abandonment of the equitable subrogation doctrine as a remedy in ...

A California appellate court has ruled that an insurer could not bring an equitable subrogation action against lessees for amounts it paid out under its insurance policy for fire damage even if the ...

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JURIST Guest Columnist John W. Klinker of Loyola University Chicago School of Law discusses how the decision in Montanile potentially creates a precedent that could affect the funding of welfare ...

The Minnesota Supreme Court recently issued a decision in United Prairie Bank v. Molnau Trucking, LLC, No. A23-1478, 2025 WL 1943964 (Minn. July 16, 2025) (slip op.), resolving a long-standing ...