Damage & Loss Claims
Released value at 60 cents a pound versus full value protection, claim deadlines and evidence, low settlement offers, and arbitration.
- Damage & Loss Claims Moving Company Arbitration: When the Offer Is Too Low Your mover had to build an arbitration program before it loaded a single box, and 49 CFR 375.211 fixes eleven things about it. Here is how to hold it to them.
- Damage & Loss Claims High Value Items Moving: The List Your Claim Rests On A $4,000 sofa is not a high-value item under the federal moving rules. A 3.5-pound laptop is. The test is a ratio, and it sorts a household backwards.
- Damage & Loss Claims Moving Damage Claim: Two Clocks and One Format Rule The damage you wrote on the inventory at the truck is not a claim, and 49 CFR 370.3(c) says so in as many words. Three elements make it one.
- Damage & Loss Claims Released Value vs Full Value Protection: Do the Math Sixty cents a pound is per article, not per shipment. Here is what that actually pays on a household, and the exact moment the choice stops being yours to make.