This includes making contact with other parties to the transaction and settlement service providers (and documenting the conversations) as per your prior authorization. (realtormag.realtor.org)
That would not prevent parties to transactions agreeing on the standards for signatures that they would accept between themselves. (slaw.ca)
And even then we must pay into a fund set up specifically to reimburse parties to a transaction in which a practitioner did something wrong. (realtormag.realtor.org)