Marine Insurance Claims Course

About the Course

Through examining a wide variety of cargo incidents, this masterclass highlights claim trends across different types of cargo, insurance considerations, claims & dispute handling best practices.

Essential to all shipping players, the practical discussions in this marine insurance claims training will include the impacts of recent developments surrounding global trade and transportation (such as COVID-19 and international sanctions) on cargo. It will also cover insurance policies relating to loss, damage, delay, and surcharges, as well as the best practices in preparing for claim defence and dispute resolution. In this course, you will also learn some of the many ramifications of the recent blockage of the Suez Canal by the Ever Given.

Who Will Benefit

Because it focuses on legal risks, contractual management, claims handling and commercial implications, this course is essential for those who want to learn marine cargo insurance claim rules, particularly:

• Shipowners, ship managers & operators, charterers
• Shipbrokers, ship agencies
• Legal services, insurers, surveyors
• Legal counsels
• Commercial managers, chartering executives, post-fixture operators, claims managers, insurance executives
• Cargo operators, vessel operators, chief officers, masters

Key Learning Objectives

• Cargo shipping regulations, market updates and cargo claim trends
• Specific issues with different types of cargo and insurance considerations
• Claims procedure, documentations and claims check-list
• Claims handling and legal issues associated with cargo loss & damage
• Defence of cargo claims
• Ship arrests and their implications for shipowners and cargo owners
• General Average (including YAR) versus Particular Average

Course Information

Instructional Delivery Method: In Person and Live Digital
Prerequisite & Advanced Preparation: Reading material will be sent prior to the course 

Delivered by Jeffrey Blum

Jeffrey Blum’s involvement in shipping and trading spans over 50 years. He is the fourth generation of a shipping family, has been an active member of the Baltic Exchange since 1976 and has worked with a Lloyd’s underwriter and as a shipbroker, ship owner and operator, gasoil futures broker, charterer and commodities trader in London and abroad.

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