Commercial Surety

Sample bond risks by industry

Click on an industry to view sample bonds

  • Aviation
  • Customs
  • Airport lease & concession
  • Fuel tax
  • Construction
  • Employee benefits
  • Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals
  • Court
  • Customs
  • Supply
  • Construction
  • Contractor tax
  • Sub-haulers
  • Contractor license
  • Court
  • Wage and welfare
  • Supply
  • Excess weight
  • Other highway and street permit

  • Placing a contractor’s commercial bonds with a separate surety frees up capacity with the account’s existing surety.
  • Consumer Products
  • Court
  • Customs
  • Game of chance
  • License and permit
  • Performance
  • Tax
  • Energy
  • Permit/street opening
  • Compliance tax
  • Utility deposit/payment
  • Service provider (no energy trading or hedging contracts)
  • Equipment supply
  • Financial Services
    Banks
  • Court (replevin, attachment)
  • Mortgage brokers
  • Lost instrument (open and fixed penalty)
  • Collection Agencies — Various license and permit bonds such as:
  • Third-party debt collector
  • Collection agency
  • Supervised lender or mortgage company
  • Mortgage consumer protection law
  • Debt Consolidators
  • Various license and permit
  • Title Companies
  • Lost trust deed
  • Food (processors/distributors)
  • Tax (fisheries)
  • Court (e.g. plaintiff, replevin)
  • Merchandising & dealer (e.g. product dealer, milk dealers, packers & stockyards administrators, commission merchant)
  • International carrier
  • Freight haulers
  • Customs
  • Supply (distributors)
  • Healthcare
  • Performance and payment (for supply of medical/behavioral services to schools)
  • Public health programs
  • Third-party provider
  • Third-party administrator
  • Patient trust fund
  • Utility deposit/payment
  • Medicare/Medicaid provider
  • Financial compliance
  • Notary
  • Preferred provider network
  • Hospitality/Entertainment (hotels, resorts, golf courses, country clubs, health clubs and restaurants)
  • Timeshare escrow subsidy
  • Subdivision (e.g. escrow deposit, maintenance assessment)
  • Health club license
  • Utility deposit/payment
  • Country club license
  • Court
  • Alcohol, beverage and liquor tax
  • Seller of travel and game of chance
  • Life Sciences (one-of-a-kind manufacturing facilities)
  • Supply
  • Advance payment
  • Utility deposit/payment
  • Customs
  • Performance bonds for service contracts
  • Manufacturing
  • Supply
  • Advance payment
  • Customs
  • Game of chance (Florida & New York)
  • Utility deposit/payment
  • Warehouse
  • Performance
  • Marine
  • Court/Admiralty
  • Private School
  • Utility deposit/payment
  • Notary
  • License and permit
  • Financial guarantee
  • Subdivision
  • Retailers
  • Subdivision improvement (on-site and off-site)
  • Utility deposit/payment
  • Sales tax
  • Court
  • Customs
  • Ordinance (such as signs)
  • Media, Sports & Entertainment
  • Court
  • Game of chance
  • Professional
  • License and permit
  • Performance
  • Technology & Telecommunications
  • Performance and payment (for service contractors)
  • Supply (off-the-shelf hardware and non-proprietary software)
  • Tower removal
  • Transportation
  • Interstate carrier permit
  • Motor carrier
  • Turnpike/road tax
  • Mileage tax
  • Transportation brokers
  • Concessionaire
  • Waste-haulers (garbage haulers)
  • Performance and payment (for service contracts)
  • Various license and permit

The industries and bonds listed are example only and represent neither a complete list nor a guarantee of issuance.