Of course, each surety consulting project comes with its own set of construction, engineering, business, personality and bond/legal complexities. Minimizing losses, reducing exposures and expediting the process starts with helping clients understand precisely what went wrong and how to best remedy the situation. We do this by simultaneously leveraging deep technical knowledge and nearly 30 years' surety claims investigations experience....

Of course, elevators are supposed to go up and down. But when there's missing rebar in the masonry construction housing it, well, it's bound to fall out of alignment. And that's what made this elevator project go sideways. This was the primary topic on a recent surety file in The Big Apple, a claim our experts were asked to investigate...

Recently, Guardian Group, Inc.'s Surety Group was called in to consult on a default in the Northeast. The principal simply did not have the capacity to perform the size of the contract she had bid for a multi-story building. While she, the principal of this minority-owned business, a registered Women Owned Business Enterprise, had attempted to subcontract the bulk of...