Private mortgage insurers lost a little collective market share to the FHA and VA during the first quarter, although that may have been simply a timing distortion, according to a new market analysis and ranking by Inside Mortgage Finance. The more groundbreaking news is that the surviving private MIs, as a group, probably turned a profit during the first quarter of 2013. The four publicly traded companies reported a combined loss on their domestic MI business of just $14.6 million during the first quarter of 2013. Essent Guaranty, the fifth-largest MI in terms of new business, is...