ABOUT THE CLAIM: On this performance bond claim, our surety-client had written a bond for which the obligee stood as one of our country’s largest and most respected general contractors and the principal served as the company’s concrete subcontractor. As you can imagine, a maximum-security facility incorporates a substantial amount of concrete, and the concrete work on this portion of...

ABOUT THE CLAIM: Recently, Guardian Group’s Construction Defect Group was asked to defend a General Contractor who was being sued for several million dollars over allegedly defective flooring. The giant manufacturing facility the construction company had built was also intended to house hundreds of administrative offices, but the rubberized flooring utilized had reportedly begun to buckle, blister, and peel up...

  Historic, below-freezing temperatures. Record, consecutive snowfalls and accumulation. Massive, unprecedented power outages. The people of Texas have certainly seen better days, and insurance carriers with a laser-focus on service to their insureds will see to it that better days will soon return to the Lone Star State. With claim volume expected to vastly exceed those of 2017’s Hurricane Harvey...