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October 7, 2026

Claims & Loss Prevention - October 5, 2026 - 9 min read

Toyota's Thai Plants Stopped Without Getting Wet: Supplier Extensions, Denial of Access and the Asian Supply Chains of Indian Manufacturers

Toyota halted three Thai plants in late September 2026 because flooding disrupted parts deliveries; the reported cause was supply, not water on the lines. For Indian manufacturers buying Thai or ASEAN components, that is the non-damage business interruption gap, and supplier and denial of access extensions close only part of it.

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Claims & Loss Prevention - October 5, 2026 - 10 min read

Sri City Boiler Blast: Rs 50 Lakh Per Family Was Promised. What Boiler, Employees' Compensation and Liability Policies Will Actually Pay

A boiler explosion at a pharma unit near Sri City killed five workers, and the Chief Minister announced Rs 50 lakh for each family, to be paid within two days. That figure sits far above what an Employees' Compensation policy indemnifies, and this post maps what each policy in the stack actually responds to.

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Claims & Loss Prevention - September 21, 2026 - 11 min read

Cargo Liquefaction and the Shipper's Liability: What the Ocean Winner Sinking Means for Indian Iron Ore Exporters

A 225-metre bulker loaded with iron ore fines at Paradip capsized in about eight minutes and surveyors pointed at cargo liquefaction after heavy pre-loading rain. For Indian miners, traders and stevedores this is a shipper-liability exposure, not a hull loss, and no ordinary marine cargo policy answers it.

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Claims & Loss Prevention - September 19, 2026 - 10 min read

Every Suspicious Motor Claim Can Now Go to a State SIT: What a Commercial Fleet Must Keep on File

The Supreme Court has directed every state to constitute a Special Investigation Team for suspected fraudulent motor accident claims, and told insurers they may not choose which claims to refer. Licence verification, VLTD logs, FIR timing and DAR consistency now decide whether a genuine fleet claim gets routed into a police investigation.

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Claims & Loss Prevention - September 10, 2026 - 11 min read

Your Cargo Is Insured, Your Missed Cut-Off Is Not: Mundra and the Marine Delay Exclusion

An empty-yard shutdown at Mundra and a truckers' strike across Kandla and Mundra have produced stranded vehicles, missed vessel cut-offs and detention bills, none of which is physical damage. This is what a marine cargo policy actually pays for in a live port disruption, what the delay exclusion blocks, and how to document a claim so it survives the wording.

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Claims & Loss Prevention - September 3, 2026 - 11 min read

A Bulk Carrier Sank With 72,100 Tonnes of Iron Ore. What an Indian Cargo Policy Actually Pays

The Panama-flagged MV Ocean Winner went down off Paradip on 22 August 2026 with a full iron ore cargo. This is the sequence an Indian marine cargo claim runs when the ship does not come back: which ICC(A) heads pay, why general average drops out, where the carrier's liability cap bites, and how FOB or CIF decides whose insurer is on risk.

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Claims & Loss Prevention - August 24, 2026 - 11 min read

The Turbine Overspeed at Ramgarh: When the Loss Is in the Captive Power Island, Not the Plant

Preliminary information on the Ramgarh blast points to a protection system failure that let a turbine overspeed at a Jharkhand cement and steel plant, killing three engineers and starting a fire. The fact pattern sits on the seam between the fire policy and machinery breakdown cover, where Indian process plants are routinely underinsured.

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Claims & Loss Prevention - August 22, 2026 - 11 min read

VLTD and Panic Buttons Are the Fight in Road Freight, and the Telematics Log Will Decide Your Next Cargo Claim

Truck operators in six southern states threatened an indefinite strike from 1 August 2026 over mandatory vehicle tracking devices and panic buttons. Whatever the politics decide, VLTD logs are becoming standard claim evidence, turning deviation and unattended-vehicle warranties from unenforceable words into provable facts. Here is what that means for transit claims and transporter contracts.

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Claims & Loss Prevention - August 20, 2026 - 11 min read

The Godown Burned and the Mill Stopped: Fire BI When the Damage Is Only to Stock

A godown fire that touches only raw-material stock can still stop an entire mill, and the standard Indian consequential loss wording handles that scenario badly unless the indemnity period, time excess and storage extensions were designed for it. A walkthrough for paper, packaging and recycling manufacturers, built around the August 2026 Subam Papers fire at Tirunelveli.

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