Founder, Surety One, Inc. (1995) — the parent practice of CourtBondSurety.com. Partner, VSP Law, PLLC. Three decades of practice in court surety bonds across appellate, plaintiff, defendant, fiduciary, and admiralty work.
The court bond business, when Mr. Poindexter entered it in the early 1990s, was structurally indifferent to statutory practice. Bond underwriters did not read the rules under which their bonds were filed. Appellate practitioners with supersedeas needs at the §52.006 cap were getting underwriting decisions from people who thought §52.006 was a zip code. Lien release bonds drafted for Florida title work were being executed by underwriters who had never read §713.24.
Surety One was founded in 1995 to close that gap. The proposition was simple: underwriters who read the rules; bond forms drafted to the receiving court's specific statutory framework; placement available in the difficult cases — non-resident plaintiffs, family-member fiduciaries, credit-challenged appellants, contested matters — that the standard carriers declined.
Three decades later the proposition has not changed. The underwriting desks are bigger; the bond capacity is higher; the geographic reach has expanded to every U.S. court including admiralty, federal Bankruptcy, and the territories. But the architecture is the same. Counsel deserves underwriting that has read the rules.
Mr. Poindexter practices in English and Spanish. The San Juan office of Surety One, Inc. handles Puerto Rico and Caribbean Spanish-language court bond placements as a routine matter — including Puerto Rico non-resident plaintiff cost bonds (fianza de no residentes), Tribunal de Primera Instancia fiduciary appointments, and the Spanish-language correspondence required by some U.S. federal court matters originating in the territories.
Send the controlling document — judgment, motion, recorded lien, appointing order. Our underwriting desk opens the file the same business day.