/ ABOUT THE CLAIM / The character Forrest Gump in the movie of the same name famously celebrated his mother’s wisdom when he repeated her lesson to him, “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.” Similarly, when a surety exits the business, often Guardian Group, Inc. is the one called in to...

/ ABOUT THE CLAIM: Not long ago, the Surety Claims Team at Guardian and YA Group had an opportunity to really come through for a surety client. The municipal authority responsible for a courthouse in the West had required a $10 MM bond for the structural steel subcontractor and the obligee had grown extremely concerned about the workmanship and the...

  / ABOUT THE CLAIM The Guardian & YA Group Surety Team received an urgent call from one of its longstanding clients. The obligee on the $1.5MM bonded project was a municipal waterworks district, and the covered project was the installation of waterlines and valve train assemblies which would transport chemically pretreated water from a lake reservoir to a nearby...