Review of our inland marine, air, cargo, and road freight surveyor experience:

Peak Claims been handling inland marine and “floater” cargo damage surveys since we became incorporated.  More than 50% of our business is now focused and devoted to into inland marine and general cargo damages.

Damaged Ball Mill Section - Climax Colorado

Whether your loss be in inland marine cargo, marine containers, road cargo, air cargo, reefer containers & food product, crates, break-bulk, machinery or high end-technology – we’ve got experience and that is where the value comes from at Peak Claims.  We’ve even had our hands in a fair amount of over-sized load and super load cargo surveys.  Our experience in handling both simple and complex, multiple party cargo losses for global self-insureds and marine insurers is expanded upon and proven in our cargo surveyor blog.

Crane picking up nacelle for transfer

We have damage/survey experience with the following subject matters:

• Bulk rolled and cut paper & paper product surveys
• End User computer kiosk systems (ticketing, gift cards, etc.) damage review
• Handling of shipments rejected by U.S. Customs
• Cisco Systems / Network Technology (switches, hubs, Telephone Switching Equipment, etc.)
• Servers, computers and network backup equipment
• Full scale power plant generation component
• Full scale industrial wind powered generators, including nacelles and blades
  
• Steel (all types – rolled and bulk)
• Imported Furniture
• Biological / Medical Supplies & Equipment
• Industrial Automation & “E Houses” (Allen Bradley, Siemens and others)
• Manufacturing / Production Automation equipment
• Blow-Molds
• Residential, Commercial and Industrial HVAC equipment (licensed technician on staff)
• Gyro survey tools and precision equipment
• General Merchandise (leather boots, clothing, retail goods, etc.)
• Conveyor Units
• Industrial Steel (Super Load 90+ Tons) Product including:  Ball Mills
• X-Ray Equipment (Dental)
• Finished & broken stone (Limestone, Granite, Marble)
• Industrial grade stators (ABB / Alston)
• Retail Flat Screen LCD & Plasma Television (TV) sets
• Industrial Solar Panel Production equipment
• Industrial Heating / Cooling equipment
• Pumps
• Hot Air Balloons, Aerostat and baskets (access to on-site pilots)
• Bulk Metals (Brass, Copper, etc.)

Our standards for conducting a cargo survey are simple and effective:

1. Remain impartial in gathering evidence that proves or denies fact and contributes to a report that will stand up in litigation.
2. Record all pertinent details that will contribute to an effective subrogation solution.
3. Ask relevant questions of the parties involved.
4. Organize the above into a report with corresponding photos that can be easily deciphered, understood and interpreted by both you and potential counsel.

We have experience with the following perils / causes of loss:

• Air, marine and road freight lack of packing, shifting and related losses
• Reefer Tempurature fluctuation
• Water Damage
• U.S Customs rejection and foreign material presence
• Unknown substance existence

If we don’t have experience handling your type of loss the odds are good that our previous experience will apply to it.  We believe strongly in denying acceptance of files that are beyond our scope of ability but are happy to provide a free consultation to surveying your loss and will surely provide a reference to our colleagues in the third party administration business if your loss seems out of our ability.  Please call our lead cargo surveyor, Mr. Phillip Crimaldi, at 888.816.0807 x 704 for additional information or simply fill out our confidential contact form with a few details and we’ll call when it’s most convenient for you.