/ 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...

/ ABOUT THE CASE, CLAIM, OR ISSUE Recently, Guardian’s Construction Defect Group was called in by the law firm representing a developer in Coral Gables, Florida. The developer had constructed a large, high-end condominium complex, but now the homeowner’s association was suing, claiming all manner of construction defects. Chief among the HOA’s concerns were the exterior coating on the building...

/ / ABOUT THE CLAIM Accidents happen. Mistakes happen. When you’ve been in the surety business as long as Guardian Group (over 30 years), you know nobody working construction gets it right 100% of the time, not contractors and not obligees, either. But sometimes, no matter how much we may know about life’s imperfections, it’s difficult not to laugh when...