The ABCs of Surety Bonds
What’s the difference between surety bonds and insurance? That’s a question I hear often, and it’s a good starting point for discussion. Knowing those differences ...
Wayne Messick, AFSB
Picture Day for Contractors
If there is one thing I learned in grade school, it is that some days are more important than others. Most notably, in the life of a grade schooler, picture day ...
Darrel Lamb, CPCU, AFSB
How Sketches Become Skylines: Meet ORSC’s Contract Bond Underwriter — Robbie Kiernan
Robbie gets specific about life in the North Pacific, taking us from the drawing board to the construction site. The Prologue Every city is one with dreams built ...
Melissa Miller
Insurance Agents Should Promote Business Services Bonds.
We like to think that service employees are honest and always have the customer in mind. Unfortunately, an employee working in a customer’s home or business may ...
Shayne Albine
Construction Oriented CPAs Play Key Role for Contractor's Bonding Needs
We often hear contractors say that getting a job is the hard part – completing the project is the easy part. Many factors go into that, one of which is having ...
Scot Albrinck, AFSB
Fidelity Bonds: Good for Employers and an Insurance Agency's Bottom Line
It’s an all-to-common occurrence: A trusted, long-time employee starts stealing from the company. At first, it may be only a few small items. Then the employee ...
Shayne Albine
A Tale of Two Opportunities: Financing of Risk Through Subcontract Bonds
Last month I met with two contractors where subcontract bonds were a central topic. The first was a paper general contractor, meaning they administered the ...
Dan Pope
What Happens in Vegas .. Also Happens in New Mexico, Arizona, & Utah for ORSC’s Bond Manager — Sean Rummel
Sean takes us on his journey through the desert — but there’s nothing dry about his story. In 2013, Sean interviewed at Old Republic Surety in Atlanta, where he ...
Melissa Miller
Surety Bonds and P3 Projects: A Colorado Case Study
Think of the growing infrastructure projects across American cities. These developments are at times so costly that taxpayer money alone cannot fund them. That’s ...
Vicki Price
Influencing (and Increasing) Your Bonding Capacity
Construction bond capacity matters — sometimes more than firms may realize. Simply put, bond capacity can either hold you back from the growth you’ve envisioned ...
Sean Rummel
