David A. Beaver, CPCU
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Eastland Claim Service, Inc.
1010 Wethersfield Avenue, Suite 301
Hartford, CT 06114
Phone (860) 296-0261
Fax (860) 296-0581
E-Mail: davebeaver@eastlandclaim.com
 
Major Loss Experience: As co-founder of Eastland Claim Service, Inc., David specializes in complex business interruption issues, manufacturing issues, and surplus and excess lines claims. He has handled sensitive negotiations involving high profile individuals, senior corporate executives, and special assignments for reinsurance carriers that involve high levels of confidentiality. Additionally, David has personally handled such complex claims as:

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 $30 million World Trade Center building,

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 $8 million power plant collapse
  contents, business interruption, contingent

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 $7 million public library fire loss
  business interruption claim

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 $5 million Florida hotel Hurricane George loss

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 $40 million foam mattress manufacturing

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 $5 million Canadian sludge reprocessing plant
  fire loss   explosion

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 $20 million recycling plant fire loss

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 $5 million Massachusetts public school fire

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 $20 million Canadian peat processing plant fire   loss
  loss

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 $3 million fire/mold remediation

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 $16 million Michigan plastic parts

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 $1.5 million Seattle earthquake loss
  manufacturing fire loss    

Formal Appraisals: David has facilitated settlements in both appraiser and umpire capacities. he has co-authored, Appraisal for the New Millennium, a treatise on the subject.

Industry Related Activities: Over the past 20 years, David has presented programs for the Property Loss Research Bureau, and has been a panelist since 1989 on the subjects of handling business interruption claims for manufacturers, formal appraisals, alternative resolutions and arbitration.

Memberships: Vice President, Leading International Property Adjusters Association; International Institute of Loss Adjusters (Eastern Regional Vice President); National Forum for Property Loss Professionals (advisory board); Loss Executives Association (former program chair); National Association of Independent Insurance Adjusters (former chair of publications committee); New England Claim Executive Association (past president); Society of Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters (Claim Section).

Education: Central Connecticut State University and the University of Hartford (Connecticut). General Adjustment Bureau Damage Appraisal School, CPCU (1978), IRM Engineering School

Prior Experience: Eastland Claim Service Inc., President/Co-founder, 1985-Present; Gordon Boyd & Company, Managing General Adjuster, 1973-1985; Covenant Insurance Group, Property Adjuster, 1971-1973; Security Insurance Company, Property Claim Examiner, 1968-1971.

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