Insurance Reports

Group Delta Consultants has decades of experience in performing first and third party claim investigations for insurance companies. In 2011 alone, our engineers conducted investigations for Chartis Insurance (1st and 3rd party claim reports), ACE Private Risk Services (1st party), Farmers Insurance (Forensic), State Farm (Forensic) and Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance (3rd party construction vibration claims). In prior years we have also done work for Allied, Fireman’s fund and several other insurance companies.

Group Delta also offers five continuing education courses for insurance professionals approved by the California Department of Insurance at our office in Torrance, California. The instructor, Principal Engineer Dr. Daniel Pradel is a certified instructor with the California Department of Insurance (Provider No. 244778), and a Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at UCLA.

Our typical insurance investigations cover:

• Water Intrusion
• Seepage
• Surface and Subsurface Seepage
• Earthquakes
• Soil Settlement
• Soil Expansion
• Landslides
• Mudflows
• Slope Failures
• Soil Creep
• Tree Root Damage
• Construction vibrations
• Retaining walls
• Shoring Movement
• Slab and foundation distress
• Flooding damage
• Distress Resulting from Pipe Breaks
• Design of Remedial Repairs
• Subsurface Investigations
• Field Instrumentation and Testing
• Driveway and Pavement Distress

In the event of an emergency such as an Earthquake, we have ~125 engineers (licensed in California, Nevada, Washington, Hawaii and Europe), technicians and support staff, and state of the art material testing laboratories (steel, concrete, pavement, and soils).