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Example Claim Form
PART 2 Section B
Property Damage
Section B

Completing a claim for property damage

This section of the claim form refers to claims For further information relating to the
for property damage only. For other types types of claims which are admissible for
of claims, please consider the alternative compensation, please refer to the Claims
sections of the claim form. Manual (available via the Publications
section of the IOPC Funds' website,
You must respond as fully and accurately as
possible to avoid delays in processing your www.iopcfunds.org) and the checklist below.
request. If there is not enough space for your Checklist
answer, please use extra pages clearly marking Information required relating to claims for
them to show to which question they relate.
property damage:
20 You must provide documents or other ● Extent of pollution damage to property and
evidence in support of your claim. If a survey an explanation of how the damage occurred
is undertaken of the damaged property,
please provide a copy of the survey report. ● Description and photographs of items
Please provide details of all taxes/levies paid, destroyed, damaged or needing cleaning,
including the amounts paid and the recipient. repair or replacement (for example boats,
fishing gear, roads, clothing), including their
It is imperative that any property damaged location. Where available, photographs of the
beyond repair is retained until an expert property prior to oiling should be provided
appointed by the shipowner’s insurer/1992 Fund to allow a clear understanding of the work
has examined the property and/or has expressly necessary to reinstate the item to the
agreed to the disposal of the property.
condition prior to the oiling
Scope of compensation ● Original purchase price of damaged
Compensation is payable for the reasonable equipment with receipt/invoice
costs of:
● Cost of repair work, cleaning or replacement
● Cleaning, repairing or replacing property of items, with a breakdown to show
contaminated by oil, e.g. hulls of vessels, individual labour costs, purchases, etc
fishing gear, and mariculture facilities;
● Invoice of costs incurred
● Cleaning intakes, machinery and equipment
● Age of damaged items replaced
of industrial installations that abstract
seawater, which have been contaminated ● Information on normal repair and
by oil, e.g. power stations and desalination maintenance schedules where relevant
plants, fish farms, etc.; ● Please declare whether you have received
● Damage to facilities and infrastructures, e.g. extra income as a result of the incident
roads, piers and embankments resulting from For further information please refer to
clean-up operations. section 3.2 in the Claims Manual.
Account is taken of the condition of the
property prior to the incident, any betterment
resulting from repairs and normal repair
schedules.