Surety Law
How Can We Help You?
At Howard | Genzon LLP, we provide strategic, results-driven legal solutions tailored to your needs. Whether it’s surety law, construction disputes, real property matters, business conflicts, probate litigation, or insurance coverage issues, we guide you every step of the way with expertise, integrity, and personalized attention.
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Surety Law:
At Howard | Genzon LLP, suretyship is more than a practice area, it’s part of our professional pedigree. Our attorneys have deep, hands-on experience representing sureties in every facet of the business, from pre-bond underwriting support to complex, multi-party litigation. We understand that surety claims move quickly, involve technical issues, and require confident, decisive counsel who can balance risk, exposure, and business considerations.
Our team has decades of combined experience in the surety industry, including:
- Claims Investigation and analysis of various types of bonds, including but not limited to payment and performance bond claims, license bond claims and court bond claims.
- Assesing liability, coverage, defenses and indemnity obligations under General Indemnity Agreements
- Guiding sureties through default delarations, cure opportunities, and takeover decisions.
- Managing tenders of completion contractors and negotiating completion agreement.
- Coordinating project continuation while mitigating delay, cost overruns, and lien exposure.
- Defending sureties in performance and payment bond actions.
- Prosecuting indemnity actions, enforcing collateral demands, and recovering losses from principals and indemnitors.
- Litigating issues involving fraud, misrepresentation, bad faith allegations, and priority disputes.
- Pursuing subrogation rights against defaulting principals, subcontractors, suppliers, and third parties.
- Navigating priority and allocation disputes in insolvency, bankruptcy, or competing claim scenarios.
- Advising insurers on bond forms, endorsements, and manuscript language.
- Providing guidance on underwriting risk, contract structure, and regulatory compliance.
- Counseling clients on public works statutory schemes, private works requirements, and industry standards.
As a complement to our surety practice, our attorneys also bring extensive construction law experience, enabling us to quickly understand the underlying project issues that drive surety exposure. We routinely address matters involving defects, delays, change orders, stop notices, mechanics liens, and contract interpretation.