Nebraska consumers,
bankers, and business owners are struggling to come to terms with the
fact that they may never fully recoup more than $19 million owed them
after the principal owner of a bankrupt title insurance agency committed suicide.
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say David Hunter, the principal owner of State Title Services Inc.,
shot himself in January 2002, as a check kiting scheme he started in
1995 began to unravel. Check kiting involves issuing a check on an
account that has been closed or has insufficient funds to cover the
amount for which the check was written. Just days after Hunter's death, the Nebraska Department of
Insurance suspended the insurance agency's license and warned consumers
that the company would not be conducting further real estate closings.
This left several home buyers in a jam at the last minute, including
one home buyer and his son who lost a $73,000 down payment on a
360-acre farm. More than 860 creditors must now stand in line to see if
they will recoup their losses. The bankruptcy proceedings are estimated
to take 18 months to two years to come to a close.
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