CIFG Assurance North America Inc. agreed to settle lawsuits against Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Capital One Financial Corp.’s GreenPoint Mortgage Funding Inc. over mortgage-backed securities.
The insurer sued Novato, Calif.-based GreenPoint in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan in 2009, accusing the company of violating its mortgage-underwriting guidelines. Justice Bernard Fried threw out the lawsuit in 2010, and CIFG filed a new complaint against GreenPoint in October. CIFG sued Goldman Sachs in the same court in August 2011 over $275 million in mortgage-backed securities.
CIFG has agreed in principle to settle the two cases, the insurer said in separate court documents filed this week. Terms weren’t disclosed. The insurer didn’t immediately return a message left at its New York headquarters seeking comment on the filings.
Capital One, based in McLean, Va.,
