that all sounds good, until you get to part two of her post:
<blockquote>This may answer the questions some people had about how the insurer and the lender might be somewhat differently motivated when it comes to mitigating losses on a loan. The MI will be pushing for collection efforts, forbearance, modifications, and so on, whenever it?s prudent (in the MI?s perspective), because the MI pays first in a foreclosure and doesn't want to do so unnecessarily. The lender might want to foreclose sooner rather than later, because in an early foreclosure, most losses are likely to be covered by the MI. Who gets its way is a question of how the fine print in the policy reads. The lender/servicer is not obligated by law to follow the MI?s requirements. It is obligated by sheer self-interest: <strong>if you don?t follow the MI?s servicing rules, the MI won?t pay the claim.</strong></blockquote>
So are the MIs going to not pay the claims from banks that are sitting on REO inventory?