LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, principally engages in the title insurance business in the United States and internationally. Its products and services facilitate the purchase, sale, transfer, and financing of residential and commercial real estate. The company operates in three segments: Title Operations, Lender Services, and Financial services. The Title Operations segment provides title insurance, escrow and closing services, commercial real estate services, and real estate transaction management services, as well as property appraisal and valuation, building and site assessments, survey co-ordination, construction disbursement, co-ordination of national multi-state transactions, and tax-deferred real property exchanges. The Lender Services segment provides services to regional and national mortgage lending institutions, which complement those offered in the company’s title insurance business. These services consist of primarily real estate tax processing, flood zone determination, consumer mortgage credit reporting, default management, and mortgage loan subservicing. The Financial Services segment engages in originating and purchasing commercial real estate loans in the southern California, Arizona, and Nevada markets, as well as in soliciting deposits through the Internet for both certificates of deposit and passbook savings accounts. The company serves residential and commercial property buyers and sellers, real estate agents and brokers, developers, attorneys, mortgage brokers and lenders, and title insurance agents. Its international markets include Mexico, Canada, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. As of December 31, 2006, it operated through approximately 1,000 offices and a network of 10,000 independent agents. LandAmerica Financial Group was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Glen Allen, Virginia.