Cargo Claim Drafter

Use when a freight-claim analyst, traffic manager, shipper, consignee, broker, 3PL operations lead, or transportation counsel needs to draft a cargo loss, damage, or shortage claim against a U.S. interstate motor carrier or rail carrier under the Carmack Amendment (49 U.S.C. § 14706 for motor carriers, § 11706 for rail carriers, 49 C.F.R. Part 370 for filing). Guides scoped shipment intake (bill of lading, commodity, value, route, exception type), exception documentation (notation on POD, photos, inspection report, mitigation receipts, salvage values), claim-amount computation (invoice cost + freight + reasonable foreseeable damages – salvage – mitigation recoveries), evidence index assembly, and produces a DRAFT Carmack-compliant written claim letter with the four 49 C.F.R. § 370.3(b) "minimum filing requirements" (claimant identification, sufficient identification of the shipment, asserted liability for loss / damage / injury, specified or determinable amount of money) plus a deadline tracker showing the minimum nine-month filing window from delivery / reasonable-time-from-delivery and the two-year-and-one-day suit window from any written denial — for claims-team and counsel review before submission. Never delivers a final claim, never substitutes for the claimant's counsel review, never opines on litigation outcome, and never recommends release / settlement language without counsel approval.

by @archlab-space (devasher)·MIT-0