By
NNA Staff
on February 29, 2012
Bulgaria has become the latest European Union nation to open up its notarial services to greater competition. The action there follows legislation enacted recently in Italy to deregulate its largely closed Notary profession.
By
NNA Staff
on February 29, 2012
The slow recovery of the housing market is hampering the ability of small businesses to obtain the credit they need to grow or even maintain current operations.
By
NNA Staff
on February 29, 2012
With patient identity verification a key issue in the healthcare industry, some experts have proposed the implementation of a Universal Patient Identifier (UPI) — unique ID numbers associated with individual patient medical records. The Healthcare Professionals Section recently spoke with Dr. Bal M. Rajagopalan, CEO of the Beverly Hills Orthopedic Institute and a medical consultant for ABC News, to get his thoughts on the UPI issue.
By
NNA Staff
on February 29, 2012
Careless employees were named as one of the most serious threats to healthcare information privacy in a survey of smaller healthcare organizations conducted by the Ponemon Institute.
By
NNA Staff
on February 29, 2012
Just about every entrepreneur has experienced a business meeting or sales pitch that somehow went wrong. You can keep trying to make your point — and likely lose a client. Or, says best-selling business writer Andrew Sobel, you can try seven little words.
By
NNA Staff
on February 29, 2012
Healthcare documents that can affect a patient’s wishes — such as powers of attorney — can significantly impact the signer’s medical treatment and finances. To ensure critical healthcare documents are not used to exploit the signer, Notaries should never to notarize under the following conditions ...
By
NNA Staff
on February 28, 2012
As banks process the backlog of foreclosures that have been shelved for the last eighteen months, Notaries will increasingly be called on to perform more transactions.
By
NNA Staff
on February 28, 2012
If I have already recorded the signer’s signature, thumbprint, identification, and document information in my journal, am I required to affix the Notary seal or stamp in the signer’s presence, or can I complete this part of the notarization later?
By
NNA Staff
on February 28, 2012
Flawed Notary practices can put you at serious risk. No matter how urgently a document needs to be notarized, or how demanding a client or employer is, violating the essential rules of notarization leaves you exposed to lawsuits.
By
Michael Lewis
on February 21, 2012
Financial institutions and the third-party contractors that service loans are still liable for the improper notarization and document signing practices exposed by the “robo-signing” crisis, even after the $25 billion national mortgage settlement with federal agencies and 49 state attorneys general.