Section 31-5031.16 - Favored producer of title insurer; buyer's right to choose(a) A title insurer shall not participate in any transaction in which it knows that a title insurance producer or other person requires, directly or indirectly, or through any trustee, director, officer, producer, employee, or affiliate, as a condition precedent to selling or furnishing any other person a loan, or loan extension, credit, sale, property, contract, lease, or service, that the other person shall place a title insurance policy of any kind with the title insurer or through a particular title insurance producer.(b) No seller of property shall require, directly or indirectly, that the buyer purchase title insurance from any particular title producer or insurer.Sept. 24, 2010, D.C. Law 18-223, § 2157, 57 DCR 6242; Nov. 5, 2013, D.C. Law 20-40, § 5(g), 60 DCR 12304.