/ "Assessing Risks and Helping Contractors Grow with Pre-bonding Evaluations" The featured article explains the service Guardian Group provides to sureties, contractors, and bond producers. Supplementary to the work of the underwriter, pre-bonding evaluations help proactively identify key project risks, often enabling the contractor to take corrective action, enabling the surety to write the bond and the contractor to...

/ 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 Even the world’s sharpest surety bond underwriting cannot eliminate all risk or loss. On this particularly tragic claim, involving the framing subcontractor for a mixed-use building that incorporated several hundred apartment units, the one possibility that nobody had planned for was that the principal would pass away at an early age. This was a uniquely sad...