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A surety bond is a written document in which one party guarantees a second party's - Performance to a third party for the second party's failure to fulfill an obligation. Which one of the these groups, for the most part, serves the market for fidelity and surety bonds in the United States? - Mul...

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AFSB 151 Final Exam A surety bond is a written docu ment in which one party guarantees a second party's - ✔✔Performance to a third party for the second party's failure to fulfill an obligation. Which one of the these groups, for the most part, serves the market for fidelity and surety bonds in the United S tates? - ✔✔Multiline property -casualty insurers Sureties use what written document to authorize a producer to act as the surety's agent in bond production? - ✔✔A power of attorney While suretyship and banking both use a prequalification process to extend credit to their customers, suretyship is different from bank credit in that - ✔✔Suretyship guarantees performance as well as monetary obligations. Because most bonds are "joint and several liability" documents, the obligee can recover losses from - ✔✔The principal or the surety, or from both. A financial guarantee differs from performance and fidelity guarantees because it requires honesty, the ability to perform the contract, and - ✔✔The ability to pay money to meet the contractual obligation. A legal remedy that a surety can use against a defaulting bond principal, in which the surety exercises its right to force the principal to perform by exhausting the principal's resources instead of its own, is - ✔✔Exoneration In an unlimited cosurety arrangement , the obligee can collect - ✔✔The full loss from any of the cosureties up to the penal sum of the bond. A bond that guarantees that faulty work will be corrected and defective materials will be replaced for a period of one year or less and that is usually provided with a performance bond at no additional cost is a - ✔✔Maintenance bond A contract bond that g uarantees the local governmental authority that a principal will complete a development in accordance with approved proposals and at the principal's expense is a - ✔✔Subdivision bond This classification of license and permit bonds poses the least risk to the surety and guarantees that the principal will conform with laws that govern the business or activity it conducts. Which bond classification is described? - ✔✔Compliance -only bonds Under a public official bond guaranteeing the honesty of a treasurer, - ✔✔He or she must account for the cash that he or she holds while in office. Bond losses occur when a fiduciary and its surety are held accountable because the fiduciary did not exercise reasonable care in notifying all heirs of an impending probate proc eeding. This fiduciary is called - ✔✔An administrator A person who commences an action against another to obtain an equitable remedy may be required to post a bond before the court will proceed with the action. This bond is called - ✔✔A plaintiff bond The legally mandated hazardous waste facilities performance bond - ✔✔Can be posted only for hazardous waste facilities with permits, and it requires an underwriting review of the closure plan. The principal on a hazardous waste bond - ✔✔Is an owner or opera tor of a hazardous waste facility and is responsible for closure and postclosure care of the facility. In the next step of the bond prequalification process, once the producer has compiled the contractor's financial documents showing significant liquidity , - ✔✔The producer may facilitate underwriter interviews to help determine the contractor's experience in meeting past contractual obligations. A contractor's percentage -of-completion estimates - ✔✔Are based on the contractor's ability to estimate the cos t to complete the project and recognize income and profit as they accrue during the project. A $5 million/$20 million contract surety credit line means that the surety is willing to - ✔✔Bond single jobs up to a contract price of $5 million when the aggreg ate contract backlog does not exceed $20 million. Which one of the following statements is true regarding surety producers' promotion? - ✔✔Participating in professional seminars and construction industry associations is an excellent way to communicate to a target audience. When developing one aspect of the business plan, the planning group should consider their agency's philosophy and culture, management quality and commitment, team motivation and dedication, resources, and the continuity of ownership and management. Which one of the following describes this aspect of the planning process? - ✔✔Identify the agency's strengths and weaknesses Which one of these categories of court bonds is written primarily on the basis of an attorney's character and reputat ion for trustworthiness? - ✔✔Fiduciary bonds Producers of public official bonds serve themselves and their prospective principals by - ✔✔Offering their services in September after primary elections are over and the candidates are known. Staff underwriting activities generally include which one of th e following? - ✔✔Formulating underwriting policy In the protective phase of the bond underwriting decision, indemnity is waived only for what type of bonds? - ✔✔The smallest and least hazardous bonds When a corporation has a number of subsidiaries that w ill all require bonds, what type of agreement can be used that would allow the parent to provide indemnity for its current subsidiaries and affiliates, as well as for companies it might acquire or form in the future. - ✔✔Omnibus agreement An example of a common addendum that might address a principal's concern about the conditions of a general agreement of indemnity (GAI) is - ✔✔Spousal exemption Generally, what type of individuals cause most public official bond losses? - ✔✔Dishonest individuals

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