Article: Court refuses to kill ban on sale of title insurance. (Supreme Court)

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court declined Monday to review a decision barring Chase Manhattan Bank from selling title insurance.

Though few banks are affected, Supreme Court's move is seen as a setback to banks' efforts to broaden their powers. Just a week earlier, the court had handed banks a victory by ruling the can sell insurance from branches in towns with fewer than 5,000 people.

The Chase Manhattan Corp. unit will have to stop selling title insurance in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which consists of New York, Vermont, and Connecticut. The decision does not prevent, insuranse sales in other states, said Ford Barrett, assistant ...

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