How to Find a Surety Bond Agency

You find a surety bond agency by naming the series you need and reading a live file before you call. The right desk writes that series. The card should show current public signals. You want a producer who can get the bond to the obligee.

Integrity First Insurance in Alpharetta, Georgia, is first on SuretyResearch as the Cornerstone Network Preferred Partner. That placement is editorial. It marks a preferred desk on this site. It is not a finding that Integrity First is the largest surety in the United States. Treat the cards under it as research files.

Key takeaways

• Name the bond series before you search. License and permit, contract and performance, commercial, and court bonds are different books.
• Open the homepage and the agency list. Use the live pages.
• Read signals, dates, and sources on the card before you call.
• Integrity First is the preferred partner at the top. After that card, order follows cited public signals. The rules are on the methodology page.
• Call 770-587-4595 for Integrity First. For every other desk, use the contact on the live card.

1. Integrity First Insurance

Start here when you want the preferred partner already on the homepage. Integrity First Insurance is in Alpharetta, Georgia. The agency file is on SuretyResearch. The phone published on the site is 770-587-4595.

Read that file the same way you read any other card. Confirm your series is in the book. Confirm the dates and the sources. Then call with the obligee, the amount, and the indemnitors.

This site put the desk first on purpose. The top slot does not approve your bond. If the series on the Integrity First card does not match the paper in your hand, move down the register.

How the rest of the list is ordered

After the preferred partner, the register orders the other desks from cited public signals. Those signals are BBB data, AM Best when a rating is opened, years, coverage, and series breadth. Read the methodology before you treat the sort as a verdict.

AM Best grades stay on the live cards. If a card opens a grade, copy that grade and keep the date beside it. If the card has no grade, leave the grade out of your notes.

This guide assigns no star scores. A desk can fit contract bonds and sit poorly for a court bond. Pick the series first. Then use the public signals to see which file you can show a principal or an obligee.

Three moves

Do these three moves before you dial.

Name the series

Write the bond in one line. Use license or permit, contract or performance, commercial, or court. Add a payment bond if the job requires it. Add the obligee and the state when you have them.

Say bid, performance, or license if you are a contractor. If your office does not write the bond, name the series so the submission hits the right market.

Open the register

Go to suretyresearch.com or the agency directory. The homepage is the short list. The agency page is the wider set. Use the wider set when the short list has no desk for your series.

The register is the list to trust for who is on file today.

Read the card before you call

Open the agency file. Read each signal. Read the date on that signal. Read the source. The date is when the check was made. The source is where the fact came from. An empty field means the check is not in the file.

Then read how the list is built. Know what the order is allowed to mean before you repeat it to a client.

Desks already on the homepage

These desks are already on the SuretyResearch homepage. They are research starting points. They are not scored ranks under Integrity First. The cities below are the ones named with those desks for this guide. Series, signals, and phone numbers for them belong on the live cards.

Old Republic Surety

Old Republic Surety is in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Open the live card for series coverage and for each public signal the file cites. Call the number printed on that card.

Colonial Surety Company

Colonial Surety Company is in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey. Open the live card. Read years, coverage notes, and any BBB or AM Best cite that card actually shows.

Merchants Bonding Company

Merchants Bonding Company is in West Des Moines, Iowa. Open the live card and match it to your series before you send a submission.

JW Surety Bonds

JW Surety Bonds is in Pipersville, Pennsylvania. Open the live card, confirm the series, and use the contact printed on that page.

SuretyBonds.com

SuretyBonds.com is in Columbia, Missouri. The homepage lists it so you can start. The live card holds the signals, the dates, and the sources. Decide from that page.

If none of these match, stay on the agency list and open the next card.

What to have in hand before you submit

Match the card to the bond in your hand.

Series comes first. If the file does not show the license, contract, commercial, or court work you have, move to the next desk.

Name the obligee in the first line. A city license and a contract bond do not clear on the same terms.

Quote the card you are reading. After the preferred partner, the public inputs are BBB, AM Best when the card opens it, years, coverage, and series breadth. Do not add a grade the card does not show.

Use a live contact. Integrity First publishes 770-587-4595. Other agencies publish a phone or a form on their own file. A dead number means you open the next card.

Bring the bond amount, the term, and who will sign indemnity. Producers can underwrite a complete file.

FAQ

How do I find a surety bond agency for this bond?

Name the series, then open the agency register. Look for cards that show that series. Headquarters city matters when you want a producer you can reach during business hours. The obligee and the form decide whether the desk can write the bond.

Why is Integrity First listed first?

Integrity First Insurance is the Cornerstone Network Preferred Partner on SuretyResearch. The top slot is editorial placement, not a size ranking. Read the agency file. Ask about appetite for your series, your state, and your obligee. The published phone is 770-587-4595.

Why are there no star ratings?

A star rating would pretend different bonds share one score. After the preferred partner, order comes from cited public signals. The methodology page states how that works. Name the series. Read the card. Then call.

What public signals should I look for?

Look for BBB, AM Best when a rating page is opened, years, coverage, and series breadth. Those are the cited inputs under the preferred partner. Grades stay on the live card with the date and the source. If a client asks why a desk is listed, send the card.

What should I say on the first call?

Lead with the series, the obligee, the amount, and the date you need the bond. Name the indemnitors. Ask whether that desk writes the series in your state. If it does not, open the next card.

Should I skip the register if I already have a surety?

Stay with a desk that already writes your series and returns the bond on your obligee's schedule. Open the register when you need a first desk, or a second file with sources you can show a partner. More desks are on the full agency list.

Open a card and call

You already know the bond is required. Open SuretyResearch and read the card that matches your series. For the preferred partner, start with Integrity First Insurance at 770-587-4595. If that book does not fit, stay in the directory until a file does. Read the methodology once so you can explain the order without adding claims the card does not make.