[RE-wrenches] Hail Damage insurance claim

[Maverick Brown]

Keywords “their engineers”. He’ll need his own engineers and some lawyers. 

Thank you,

Maverick


> On Jun 14, 2019, at 2:31 PM, James Jibril Gustafson <djibrilfall at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello Climate Heroes,
> 
> I have a friend with a large ground-mounted system composed Canadian solar modules and Fronius inverters.  Here on the front range of Colorado we have had increasingly damaging and frequent hail storms. He noticed that some of his modules had broken glass, obviously from hail stones.  Many others had cracked cells and hot spots, which also appear to be hail related.  
> 
> He asked his insurance company to take a look, and they sent an engineering firm to inspect.  Their report came back saying that only the 3 modules with broken glass would be covered for hail, and that the other 139 modules would not be covered.  
> 
> Has any one else dealt with a similar situation, and/or have hard evidence that hail can damage a module without breaking the glass?  Any help would be greatly appreciated. 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jibril 
> Tava Solar LLC
> 
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