/ ABOUT THE CLAIM The owner of a 30,000 s.f. building, in operation as a motel franchise, filed a claim with his insurance carrier alleging significant damage due to a recent wind event. Specifically, he claimed the 1995-built structure’s wood framing had been compromised. The insurance company called upon the forensic engineering team at Guardian & YA Group to investigate...

/ ABOUT THE CLAIM, CASE, OR ISSUE: The developer of a high-rise apartment building had filed suit against its general contractor. In addition to typical construction defect allegations there was widespread noise complaints which had led the developer to believe its contractors had built thin, under-insulated, or otherwise faulty walls. From the day of move-in and onward, tenants complained they...

  / 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...