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All States Surety Bond
These surety bonds are general for all states.
Plaintiff Bond
A plaintiff bond is a type of court bond required in civil cases, particularly when the plaintiff resides in a different state.
Employee Dishonesty Bond
Employee dishonesty bonds protect the purchaser against financial losses resulting from the dishonest acts of an employee, such as embezzlement, check forging, fraud, or the theft of money or merchandise.
Public Official Bond
Public official bonds guarantee that officials in a position of responsibility will carry out their duties in a lawful and ethical manner.
Civil Bond
Civil bonds are a type of court bond that are required only in certain civil actions.
Express Script Bonds
An Express Scripts bond protects Express Scripts against contract violations by the pharmacies that become part of the company’s home delivery network.
Bid Bond
A bid bond is often required in order to bid on a construction project. The bond serves as a guarantee that the bidder is qualified to do the work if awarded the contract and has the financial capacity and cash flow to complete the job for the bid price.
Commercial Lease Surety Bonds
Learn more about commercial lease surety bonds, and apply today. Absolute Surety offers surety bonds nationwide through a convenient online application system.
Employee Theft Bond
Employee theft bonds (also called employee dishonesty bonds) belong to a category of surety bonds known as fidelity bonds. They provide protection for employers against financial loss that results from unlawful acts that their own employees commit.
Airline Reporting Bond
Airline reporting bonds are also known as ARC bonds, because they are a requirement of the Airline Reporting Commission (ARC). Travel agents must obtain an ARC bond in order to be accredited by ARC to receive travel-related information and distribute airline tickets.
Administrator Surety Bonds
An Administrator bond, also known as an executor bond, is a type of court bond required when an administrator is appointed to distribute the assets of a person who died intestate (without a will).
Attachment Bond (Plaintiff Bond)
Attachment bonds, also known as plaintiff bonds or writ of attachment bonds, are used in civil cases between a debtor (the defendant) who owes money and a creditor (the plaintiff).
Performance Bond
Performance bonds are a type of construction surety bond that guarantees satisfactory completion of a project by a contractor, thus protecting the project owner against financial loss from a contractor’s poor performance or default.
NVOCC Bond
An NVOCC bond (or OTI bond) ensures payment of damages incurred in the performance of these tasks. It also covers any fines levied by the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) against a shipper or carrier for violations of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act.
Patient Trust Bond
Learn how to get a patient trust bond, and get a quote from Absolute Surety for the bond you’ll need if you hold or manage funds belonging to nursing home patients.
Notary Public Bond
Most states require a notary public to purchase a surety bond as part of the process of becoming licensed or renewing a license.
Appeal Bond (Supersedeas Bond)
Appeal bonds, also known as supersedeas bonds or defendant’s appeal bonds, are designed to ensure that defendants appealing the decision of a lower court in a civil matter will pay the original judgement amount to the plaintiff if the appeal is unsuccessful
Right of Redemption Surety Bonds
Learn more about right of redemption bonds, and apply today. Absolute Surety offers surety bonds nationwide through a convenient online application system.
Bankruptcy Bond
A bankruptcy bond, also known as a bankruptcy trustee bond, is required in all states. It guarantees that a bankruptcy trustee will carry out his or her assigned duties in a completely lawful and ethical manner.
Litigation Bond
Litigation bonds are a subset of court bonds that come into play when there is a dispute over property of some sort or perhaps a disputed action.
Marijuana Surety Bond
Generally, any business in the cannabis industry is subject to a marijuana bond requirement.
DMV Surety Bonds
DMV bonds are used to transfer ownership of a vehicle for which there is no proper title or to obtain a title for the vehicle.
401(k) Surety Bonds
Learn more about 401(k) surety bonds, and apply today. Absolute Surety offers surety bonds nationwide through a convenient online application system.
Lost Instrument Bond
If you have lost a cashier’s check, stock certificate, property deed, or similar financial instrument, your financial institution will require you to purchase a lost instrument surety bond in order to claim ownership of the missing assets.
Collection Agency Bond
A collection agency bond (also referred to as a debt collector bond) is a type of license and permit surety bond. More than half of all states require these bonds as part of the process of becoming licensed to do business in the state.
Auto Dealer Bond
Auto dealer bonds are a form of license and permit bond designed to protect consumers against financial loss due to the actions of an auto dealer.
Pharmacy Bond
A pharmacy bond (also known as a wholesale drug distributor bond) is a type of license bond intended to prevent the mismanagement of the shipment and sale of prescription and over-the-counter drugs by pharmaceutical wholesalers.
Funeral Bond
Making preneed funeral arrangements solves some problems. But because it involves pre-paying funeral expenses, potentially many years in advance of incurring any actual costs, it raises some trust issues. Preneed funeral bonds are designed to address those issues
Encroachment Bond
In most cases, obtaining an encroachment bond is a condition for the issuance of a construction permit, so the bond is considered a type of license and permit bond.
Executor Bond
An executor bond is a type of surety bond often required by probate courts. They are often called “probate bonds” and are a form of fiduciary bond.
Credit Services Organization Bond
Any business applying for a license to operate as a credit services organization in a state that requires such businesses to obtain a license and permit bond must purchase a credit services organization bond before a license will be granted.
Lottery Bond
Lottery bonds, also called lotto bonds, are hybrid surety bonds that function as both license and permit bonds and financial guarantee bonds. They protect the public against fraud and dishonest behavior by establishments that sell lottery tickets. They also protect the state Lottery Commission or other agency that administers the lottery programs the state participates in, including multi-state lotteries, and licenses ticket sellers.
Payment Bond
The purpose of a payment bond is to ensure that contractors pay their subcontractors, laborers, and suppliers in a timely manner. Like other types of contractor surety bonds, they may be required as a condition of being awarded a construction contract by either a public or private sector entity.
Advance Payment Bond
An advance payment bond is a type of contractor surety bond that guarantees that the project owner recovers an advance payment in the event that the contractor defaults on the contract.
Receiver Bond
The receiver bond guarantees that the receiver will faithfully carry out the responsibilities and duties of receivership.
Alcohol Bond
Alcohol bonds are a form of license and permit surety bond. Their primary purpose is to ensure that businesses manufacturing, selling, warehousing, transporting, or distributing alcoholic beverages do so in compliance with state law, including paying required taxes and fees.
Indemnity to Sheriff Bond
A Sheriff’s Indemnity Bond is a type of judicial court bond that protects the sheriff from any liability for seized property.
Sales Tax Bond
A sales tax surety bond guarantees that a merchant or other entity collecting sales tax from consumers remits the proper sales tax amount to the taxing authority.
DMEPOS Bond
A DMEPOS bond protects Medicare against financial loss resulting from illegal practices such as fraudulent billing. Learn more, and apply today.
Beauty School Bonds
Also known as cosmetology school bonds, beauty school bonds are a type of license and permit bond.
Injunction Bond
Injunction bonds are a common type of court bond. The plaintiff is required to purchase a surety bond when the defendant in the case has been issued an injunction.
Freight Broker Surety Bond
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) requires these bonds from freight brokers and freight forwarders in order to be granted a license or to renew an existing license.
Fiduciary Bonds
A fiduciary bond is a bond that courts may require in any situation in which one person is acting in a fiduciary capacity on behalf of another person or the estate of a deceased individual.
Medicare Surety Bonds
Medicare bonds are surety bonds required by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as a preventive measure against medical billing fraud, specifically fraudulent billing for durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS).
Health Club Bond
Many health clubs collect membership fees from members when they join. Health club bonds ensure that members don’t lose out if their club doesn’t uphold its end of the membership contract, or ceases operations before they have reached the end of their membership.
Reclamation Bond
Reclamation bonds are commonly used in the mining industry to ensure that funds will be available to pay for land and water reclamation efforts when mining operations cease in an area.
Mobile Home Dealer Bond
Many states require mobile home dealers to purchase a surety bond as a condition for being granted a license to sell new or used mobile homes. Therefore, mobile home dealer bonds are considered to be a type of license and permit bond.
Environmental Surety Bonds
Environmental surety bonds were created to ensure compliance by contractors of all sorts with federal environmental regulations and policies.
Yacht Broker Bonds
Some states require people who sell yachts and ships to obtain a business license. Purchasing a license and permit bond is typically a part of the licensing process.
Utility Deposit Bonds
Utility deposit bonds are surety bonds that utility companies may require customers to provide as a guarantee that they will pay their bills for electricity, natural gas, water or other utilities.
Money Transmitter Bond
A money transmitter bond is a type of license and permit bond. These bonds are also called money remitter bonds, check casher bonds, money services business bonds, or electronic money transfer bonds, depending on the state and the nature of the business.
Auto Insurance Bonds
In some cases, it’s possible to satisfy the state’s insurance requirement by purchasing an auto insurance bond as proof of the financial resources to self-insure.
Fidelity Bonds
Fidelity bonds are a type of business service bond designed to protect a company and its clients against financial loss resulting from the illegal acts committed by a bonded employee on the client’s premises.
Guardianship Bond
A guardianship bond guarantees that the guardian will carry out his or her fiduciary responsibilities in compliance with all applicable rules and regulations.
Financially Responsible Officer Bond
An FRO bond designates a specific individual to be held responsible for ensuring that an organization’s accounting and financial practices are both lawful and ethical. It also guarantees that all of the company’s other fiduciary responsibilities are carried out in a lawful and ethical manner and that all necessary paperwork will be provided to the relevant authorities.
Motorcycle Surety Bonds
Learn more about motorcycle surety bonds, and apply today. Absolute Surety offers bonds nationwide through a convenient online application system.
Corporate Surety Bond
Corporate surety bonds are surety bonds that are issued to companies rather than to individuals.
Maritime Commission Bond (FMC 48)
An OFF or NVOCC seeking a license in the U.S. must obtain the appropriate OTI bond, or maritime commission bond.
Surplus Lines Bond
A surplus lines bond (also known as a surplus lines agent bond) is a license and permit bond that surplus lines brokers need in order to operate legally within a particular state.
Immigration Consultant Bond
These bonds protect the state and the public from harm stemming from the unethical or illegal acts of immigration consultants.
Car Wash Surety Bonds
Learn more about car wash surety bonds, and apply today. Absolute Surety offers surety bonds nationwide through a convenient online application system.
Mechanics Lien Bond
A mechanics lien bond is a type of court bond required in cases where a debt is in dispute or the ownership of property is at stake.
Union Bond
Union bonds, also called wage and welfare bonds or wage and benefits bonds, protect employees who belong to a labor union. These bonds are purchased by companies that employ people who belong to a labor union.
Contractor Bond
A contractor license bond is a form of license bond commonly required as a condition of becoming and remaining licensed as a contractor in a given state or municipality.
Trustee Bonds
Trustee bonds are a type of court bond that is usually required when someone is appointed by a court to manage the affairs and finances of a minor or an incapacitated person whose assets are held in trust.
ERISA Bonds
ERISA bonds are a form of fidelity bond designed to protect employee benefit plans from financial loss resulting from fraud, mismanagement, or theft committed by the individuals managing funds for the plan.
Highway Use Tax Bonds
Some states require commercial trucking companies to purchase a highway use tax bond. This is a type of license bond and is often a prerequisite for using public highways.
Indemnity Bonds
Surety bonds that require the principal to sign an indemnity agreement are often referred to as indemnity bonds. An indemnity agreement makes the principal financially responsible for any valid claims against the bond.
Tobacco Bond
Tobacco bonds, also known as cigarette tax bonds or tobacco tax bonds, are a type of financial guarantee surety bond. They guarantee that businesses selling tobacco products do so in accordance with applicable laws and remit the proper sales tax to the state.
Travel Agency Bond
A travel agency bond, also known as a “seller of travel” bond, is a type of license and permit bond required in many states as a condition for getting licensed to operate as a travel agency within the state.
Wage Bond
Wage bonds, also known as union bonds, are a form of financial guarantee bond. The bond ensures that companies that hire union members make the proper payments to the union fund for dues, wages, and/or benefits.
Professional Fundraiser Bonds
A professional fundraiser bond is a type of license and permit bond that is often mandated as a condition for obtaining a license to operate as a professional fundraiser within a given state.
H-2A Surety Bonds
Learn more about H-2A surety bonds, and apply today. Absolute Surety offers surety bonds nationwide through a convenient online application system.
Telemarketing Bond
A telemarketing bond is a type of license and permit surety bond that is required in most states in order to become licensed to operate a telemarketing call center. They are also called telemarketer bonds or phone solicitor bonds.
DC Home Improvement Surety Bonds
Learn more about Washington DC home improvement surety bonds, and apply today. Absolute Surety offers bonds nationwide through a convenient online application system.
Private School Bonds
Private school bonds are a type of license and permit bond required in many states. Although the terms vary from state to state, they typically protect the rights of students.
Brewers Bond
One of the requirements for obtaining the necessary Brewer’s Notice is the purchase of a brewers bond, which is a type of alcohol bond.
Maintenance Bond
A maintenance bond, sometimes referred to as a warranty bond, is a type of contractor surety bond that is designed to protect the owner of a completed construction project against financial loss due to construction defects and problems associated with materials and workmanship that may not be immediately apparent.
Credit Repair Surety Bond
Learn more about credit repair surety bonds, and apply today. Absolute Surety offers surety bonds nationwide through a convenient online application system.
Guarantee Bond
Often referred to as financial guarantee bonds or commercial financial guarantee bonds, these are very common surety bonds that provide an unconditional guarantee of payment of a financial obligation.
Auction Bond
Auction bonds (or auctioneer bonds) are a type of license and permit bond required by many states as part of the process of becoming licensed as an auctioneer or to operate an auction house.
Site Improvement Bonds
This type of bond ensures that the improvements described in the contract will be made exactly as specified, in accordance with current local building codes.
Supply Bond
Supply bonds are a type of contract bond that guarantees that a supplier will fulfill purchase orders and deliver supplies/materials in a timely manner.
Public Adjuster Bond
A public adjuster bond is a type of license and permit bond guaranteeing that the public adjuster will abide by all applicable state rules and regulations.
Insurance Broker Bond
Insurance broker bonds are license and permit bonds that are required by many states as a condition of becoming licensed to do business in the state.
CPEO Bond
A CPEO bond guarantees payment of the CPEO’s federal employment tax liabilities.
Vehicle Surety Bonds
The term “Vehicle bonds” refers to the kind of surety bond required in order to transfer ownership or register a vehicle when there is an issue with the vehicle’s title.
Fuel Tax Bond
These bonds are required as part of the process of becoming licensed as a fuel seller.
Replevin Bond
Learn more and apply for a Replevin Bond through our convenient online application system. We offer competitive rates and rapid turnaround times.
Lost Stock Certificate Bonds
Learn more about lost stock certificate bonds, and apply today. Absolute Surety offers surety bonds nationwide through a convenient online application system.
Lost Title Bond
Purchasing a lost title bond is the first step in the process of getting a bonded title as proof of ownership when the original title for a motor vehicle is missing or deemed unacceptable for the purpose of registering a vehicle.
Customs Surety Bond
Customs bonds play an important role is ensuring the smooth processing of import transactions through customs. Their primary purpose is to guarantee that import duties and taxes on a given transaction are paid.
Janitorial Bond
Janitorial bonds are a type of surety bond that’s sometimes referred to as fidelity bonds or business service bonds. Unlike many other types of surety bonds, janitorial bonds are voluntary rather than mandatory.
Title Agent Bond
In some states, title agent bonds are referred to as title agency bonds, title insurance settlement agent bonds, title insurance agent bonds, title attorney bonds, or escrow agent bonds. Regardless of what it’s called, it is a form of license and permit bond required by many states in order for title agents and agencies to obtain a license and operate in the state.
Mortgage Broker Bond
There are several different types of surety bonds that are commonly required in the mortgage industry, and it’s important to be clear as to which type you need. Learn more, and request a quote today.
PEO Bond
Whenever there is financial responsibility, there is also the potential for fraud and financial malfeasance. A PEO bond guarantees that a PEO operates according to the state’s rules and regulations.
Business Services Bond
Business services bonds are a type of surety bond that protects business owners who send employees into a customer’s home or place of business to provide services such as cleaning, painting, gardening.
Process Server Bond
These bonds serve as a guarantee to the state and the parties relying on the process server to deliver court documents to the right recipient in a timely manner and in accordance with all applicable rules and regulations.
Cost Bond
Cost bonds are a type of court surety bond designed to guarantee the payment of costs associated with litigating a given case.
Utility Bond
A utility bond, also known as a utility service guarantee bond or utility deposit bond, is a type of commercial surety that is often required by public or private utility companies before they will turn on utilities for new clients.
BMC-84 Bond
Commonly known as BMC-84 bonds, freight broker bonds are a requirement of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Commission (FMCSA) for transportation brokers operating in the United States.
Cryptocurrency Bonds
Several states now treat cryptocurrency traders as money transmitters. They are often required to be licensed and to obtain a cryptocurrency money transmitter bonds.
Subdivision Bond
Subdivision bonds refer to a type of surety bond required when property owners split up residential or commercial properties into smaller ones for individual resale. The bond guarantees payment of suppliers, subcontractors, and laborers carrying out the improvement work.