One of Canada’s largest harvesters, processors and marketers of quality fresh and frozen seafood, Premium Seafoods Group, suffered a catastrophic fire which fully engulfed one of its processing plants in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada.
The community’s deputy fire chief assessing the damage said, “I’ve been in the fire service for 20 years and this is the worst I’ve seen yet.”
Rather than struggle on its own with a broad range of overwhelming circumstances and complicated issues stemming from the integration and application of multiple insurance policies, Premium Seafoods quickly decided to retain the Alex N. Sill Company as its public insurance claims adjuster to get its business up and running. Sill, North America’s leading public insurance claims adjuster and loss consultant which has successfully handled major insurance claims since 1928, was retained to manage all aspects of the claims process.
Sill immediately deployed its in-house staff of adjusters, experienced building and property consultants, contents estimators and certified public accountants to advise Premium Seafoods on the best way to adjust the claim. The team of Sill professionals provided onsite analysis of the loss parameters and completed detailed claim loss estimates as well as meticulous support for each area of the claim. Sill’s effort as an adjuster and primary advocate resulted in an outstanding policy limits recovery for Premium Seafoods of nearly $7 million.
Edgar Samson, President of Premium Seafoods, elaborated on Sill’s scope of involvement and effectiveness on this insurance claim:
“After meeting with your firm, we decided to hire the Alex N. Sill Company to assist us with this claim. This decision, in retrospect, was the best move we could have made and to this day we are glad that we hired your firm. We were very pleased with the results. Throughout the claim you were there to help us analyze the coverages, properly assess the damages, figure out the best way of putting the figures in front of the insurer and fight on our behalf in order to ensure that we received the best settlement possible as a result of this fire loss. It is my belief that as a result of the higher settlement we obtained due to your involvement, you earned your fee 10 times over. We could not have done this without you.”
Edgar Samson, President