ABOUT THE CLAIM: A tiny grocery market had claimed widespread water damage in the wake of Hurricane Dorian. This powerful event that besieged Southeast Florida in the first week of September, 2019, contained large outer rain bands and produced wind gusts of tropical storm force. According to an industry storm events database, a peak storm surge of 1-2 feet occurred...

ABOUT THE CLAIM: On this performance bond claim, our surety-client had written a bond for which the obligee stood as one of our country’s largest and most respected general contractors and the principal served as the company’s concrete subcontractor. As you can imagine, a maximum-security facility incorporates a substantial amount of concrete, and the concrete work on this portion of...

ABOUT THE CLAIM: Recently, Guardian Group’s Construction Defect Group was asked to defend a General Contractor who was being sued for several million dollars over allegedly defective flooring. The giant manufacturing facility the construction company had built was also intended to house hundreds of administrative offices, but the rubberized flooring utilized had reportedly begun to buckle, blister, and peel up...