A Midwest county park beautification project that featured a massive concrete pathway was stopped in its tracks when the obligee terminated the contractor for failure to prosecute work. With a fast-approaching project completion date - the construction schedule had been reverse-engineered for the start of the summer season, an outdoor concert series for which the concrete pathway provided proper access,...

Recently, Guardian Group's surety bond claim investigations team received a call from one of our clients, a leading provider of all manner of commercial surety and fidelity bonds. The company had written a Public Official bond for the treasurer of a mid-size community in the Southwest... and there was trouble brewing. If you are unfamiliar with all of the various bond types, the...

  Recently, Guardian Group, Inc.'s Construction Defect Group was dispatched to the Pacific Northwest. Counsel representing the general contractor asked our construction and engineering experts to investigate and advise on a case involving a municipality's well, one component of a networked water supply system. The well had an estimated cost to repair/replace in excess of one million dollars and the case had been...