Map liability and time limits across an ocean leg and a rail leg

Key facts

Human involvement

Yellow · Close supervision

How AI is used

Split the movement into the ocean bill and the rail bill the papers already name. Record the notice dates and the delivery dates printed on those bills. Do not pick a defendant.

What the lawyer must review

On an ocean bill, the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act note to 46 USC section 30701 requires written notice of loss before or at removal, or within three days of delivery if the damage is not apparent, and suit within one year after delivery or the date the goods should have been delivered. Failure to give notice does not bar suit. Liability is capped at $500 per package or customary freight unit unless the shipper declared the nature and value and it was inserted in the bill. The Act does not apply to charter parties. On a rail bill, 49 USC section 11706 makes the receiving and delivering rail carriers liable for actual loss or injury caused by the receiving carrier, the delivering carrier, or another rail carrier over whose line the property moved. A carrier may not set a claim period of less than 9 months or a suit period of less than 2 years. The suit period runs from written notice that the carrier has disallowed any part of the claim. An offer of compromise is not a disallowance unless the carrier, in writing, says that part is disallowed and gives reasons. A motor-carrier statute was not opened.

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