Recently, the legal counsel at one of our nation's leading surety companies, a longstanding client of Guardian Group, Inc., requested expert litigation support from our Surety Group. Their bond covered site construction and underground utilities for a large shopping center, and our client knew Guardian's staff includes not only civil engineers with extensive experience in evaluating site design and utility...

ABOUT THE PROJECT   Military projects present unique contractual and construction issues. When liquidated damages (LD's) come into play, even more diligence is required. Such was the case when a large surety's principal faced obstacles with a design-build project (a series of storage bunker buildings for captured munitions) at a secure military installation. Because this was a design-build project, the...

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,...