It’s a sad fact of business life: employees steal. There are two kinds of employee theft a company needs protection against, and different surety bonds cover each one—dishonesty bonds and business service bonds. It can be…

As several U.S.-based coal companies face declining stock prices, bankruptcies and the lowest production rates since the 1980s, their ability to honor self-bonding obligations has been called into question. There are nearly $4 billion in outstanding self-bonding obligations among…