8th Annual
November 6 - 7, 1997

Iselin, New Jersey

"Forged Endorsement Claims" Against Depository Banks: Defenses Available to the Insured and Coverage Implications Under the Financial Institution Bond.

Matthew M. Horowitz - Lecomte, Wolf, Horowitz, Rosenthal & Ray
Hartford, Connecticut

Ignorance is No Excuse: Acceptance by Owner, by Owner's Agent or by Failure to Inspect as a Bar to Performance Claims

Robert R. Warchola - Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick
Tampa, Florida

Ensuring That Crime Doesn't Pay: How the Fidelity Carrier Can Use Restitution to Defeat IRS Claims to a Defendant's Assets

Adam P. Friedman - Wolff & Samson
New York, New York

Surety's Cost to Complete Defaulted Construction Projects - 24 Cases Reviewed

David L. Styers - Forcon International - NE
Avon Connecticut

Fair Debt Collection Laws and Sureties

John W. Rourke
Andrea M. Cunning
Reinert & Duree
St. Louis, Missouri

The Surety's Rights to Contract Funds in the Principal's Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Proceedings

George J. Bachrach
Cynthia Rodgers-Waire
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston
Baltimore, Maryland

Subrogation Rights and the Fidelity Insurer: How to Protect Them, and What to Do When They Have Been Prejudiced

Gary M. Case - Lecomte, Wolf, Horowitz, Rosenthal & Ray
Hartford, Connecticut

A Survey: State Prompt Payment Acts and the Surety

Bernard A. Reinert
Joseph M. Krutzsch
Reinert & Duree
St. Louis, Missouri

Perils and Pitfalls in Payment Bond Claims: A Discussion of Unusal Case Law

Michael A. Stover
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston
Baltimore, Maryland

The Surety's Rights and Remedies Against Third Parties for Nonauthentic Signatures on the Agreement of Indemnity

James J. Ross
Wolff & Samson
Roseland, New Jersey

The Surety's Review of: What the Owner Should - And Should Not - Do (Tools of Negotiations for the Claims Professional)

Thomas J. Burke
Forcon International Corp.
Tampa, Florida