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General
Is Getting a Customer Signature Good Practice?
PAN Customer Service Representative Ruth Kohler now wishes she had gotten a customer’s signature in her register, particularly after she realized the customer is a famous Pittsburgh sports figure.
Staying off the Bad Notary List
If your name has appeared on the Secretary of State’s list of “bad notaries,” chances are, you’ve committed what’s become the Number One issue that gets notaries in trouble time and time again.
What is a Signing Agent
Several months ago, the Pennsylvania Association of Notaries sent out a survey asking members these questions: Do you work as a signing agent? How many closings do you perform each week? How do you market your signing agent business?
State Addressing Translation of Notary Public to Foreign Languages
The Pennsylvania Department of State is taking steps to address the potential for confusion when the term notary public is translated into a foreign language.
Philadelphia Changes Deed Recording Requirements
Philadelphia Records Commissioner Joan Decker held a meeting on Friday, Oct. 17, in Conversation Hall, Philadelphia City Hall to review the new city council legislation affecting the Records Department that became effective on Nov. 3.
Dowd Discusses ID Theft at York Paralegal Meeting
Brian Dowd of PAN’s Business Development office discussed identity theft at the monthly meeting of the York County Paralegal Association held at the York County Bar Association office.
Enjoa Team to Stop Software Support
The Electronic Notary Journal of Official Acts (Enjoa) made its debut with much fanfare in 2003. Billed as a new system that would broaden the use of digital signatures in the U.S., the $550 hardware-software package allowed notaries to save a digital record of a signature, thumbprint and digital photograph of an individual requesting a notarial act.
Lawsuit Filed Against Atlantic Bonding Co.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett has filed a consumer protection lawsuit against Atlantic Bonding Co., and its owner, Marc C. Zinman, of Pompano Beach, Florida, for selling notary appointment and reappointment packages to Pennsylvania consumers and failing to deliver them.
Allegheny County Streamlines Notary Commission Process
If one-stop shopping was the goal, then Allegheny County has achieved what it set out to accomplish with the notary commission process.