Kansas City, Mo. – August 13, 2026: Rouse Frets White, P.C. is pleased to announce the addition of Carol Smith to the law firm. Carol focuses her practice on construction, surety and fidelity law. With 30-plus years of experience, she is a leading attorney in her field and a well-known author and presenter on surety and fidelity topics.
Working with some of the largest surety and fidelity underwriters in the country, Carol represents clients in a variety of claim situations, litigation, and arbitration; analyzes and defends claims on construction and commercial bonds, financial institution bonds and commercial crime policies.
Carol is a past chair of the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial & Insurance Practice (TIPS) Fidelity and Surety Law Committee and sits on the Board of Directors of the Surety Claims Institute.
About the Surety and Fidelity Law Practice Group: The law firm’s Surety and Fidelity Law Practice Group represents leading surety companies in a wide variety of litigation and arbitration claim situations. The group’s attorneys analyze and defend claims on performance and payment bonds, commercial bonds, financial institution bonds, and commercial crime policies. In addition to their decades of experience, our attorneys are frequent authors and presenters on topics impacting the surety industry and hold leadership positions with the American Bar Association’s Fidelity and Surety Law Committee and the Surety Claims Institute.
About the firm: Rouse Frets White offers highly skilled lawyers in many practice areas with vast real-world experience. Our clients benefit from blue-ribbon talent unencumbered by mega firm business models.
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