Surety and Fidelity

The firm's surety and fidelity section has attorneys experienced in surety bond litigation/claims resolution and fidelity bond claims and coverage issues. Members of this section are frequent speakers and authors on surety and fidelity bond topics, including contract and commercial surety bonds and fidelity bond issues. Attorneys in this section are active members of the American Bar Association Fidelity and Surety Law Committee and have presented papers at ABA-sponsored meetings, at the Fidelity Law Association and at Surety Claims Institute. This section of the firm has been represented for several years on the Vice Chairs' Committee of the American Bar Association's Fidelity and Surety Law Committee.

Representative surety and fidelity clients of the firm are:

• Employers Mutual Casualty Company
• Hanover Insurance Company
• HCC Surety Group
• Insurance Company of the West
• International Fidelity Insurance Company
• Liberty Mutual
• North American Specialty Group
• Old Republic Surety Company
• RLI Insurance Company
• Safeco Insurance Company
• Washington International Insurance Company
• Western Surety Company
  

Publications

• "Bid Bonds," Handling Fidelity, Surety and Financial Risk Claims, 2nd Ed., John Wiley and Sons, 1990 (author)
• "The Most Important Questions Asked About Performance Bonds," American Bar Association, 1997 (co-author)
• "Discovery of Information From An Insurer," 3 Fidelity Law Association Journal 71, 1997 (co-author)
• "A Tale of Two Circuits: Expanded Liability for the Completing Surety,"
  Fidelity & Surety Committee Newsletter, American Bar Association, 2002 (author)
• Mississippi Chapter, "Performance Bond Manual of the 50 States, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Federal Jurisdictions," American Bar Association, 2006 (author)
• Mississippi Chapter, "The Law of Motor Vehicle Dealer Bonds," American Bar Association, 2006 (author)
• Mississippi Chapter, Payment Bond Manual, Third Edition, American Bar Association, 2006 (author)