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B-247770 1 (1992-07-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadocm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.O, 20548 Decision Matter of, American World Forwarders, Inc. File: Date: B-247770 July 17, 1992 DIGEST 1, A compromise offer submitted to a carrier by an agency to settle a loss and damage claim does not bind the agency unless accepted by the carrier. Upon carrier rejection, the agency may set off from monies otherwise due to the carrier amounts up to the carrier's full contractual liability, whether or not they exceed the amount of the proposed compromise. 2. A carrierlcan be charged with the loss /f an item not specifically listed on the inventory where lhe surrounding circumstances are sufficient to establish that the item was shipped and lost. A shipper who specifies details regarding the packing and tender of such an item to a carrier or warehouseman at origin has provided adequate evidence of tender to establish a prima facie case of carrier liability. 3. When goods loss/damage is last bailee. pass through the presumed to have hand of occurred several in the bailees, hands of DECISION American World Forwarders, Inc., requests'review of our Claims Group's settlement denying its claim for $1,274, which the Air Force set off from revenues otherwise due American to recover for loss and damage incurred to a service member's shipment of household goods. We affirm Claims Group's settlement. In Octobe and store Aberdeen, Ame ican member in r 1984 the member's d by a non-temporary Maryland. The NTS on May 27, 1988, and * Marina, California, household storage facility American on June goods were packed (NTS) facility in tendered the goods delivered them to 22, 1988.1 On 'The portion Of the move Property Government Bill involving of Lading American is Personal QP-058,255. any the the to the

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