Jeffrey grew up in California, and began working on cars at a young age. After years spent learning many valuable sheet-metal and painting skills, Jeff went on to open his own custom shop back in California, JT Chroma Restorations. Jeff later moved on to HD motorcycles and special construction. Before stretched tanks were mass produced, he would stretch tanks, widen fenders, rake frames and spray the custom paint. He won several awards for best paint in the East Bay Area car and motorcycle show competitions.
After 14 years of building and painting cars and motorcycles, Jeff sold his business and transitioned into the insurance industry. Jeff worked as a specialty and heavy equipment appraiser for a major firm in California for 11 years, before moving to another large insurance provider on their Large Loss Team. In this role, Jeff traveled extensively around the US working various claims, mostly on specialty equipment valued over $100K. For nine years, Jeff appraised approximately 1,200 specialty auto and equipment in the construction, agricultural, logging, mining, oil production, RV, inland marine industries, while also handling the occasional multi-million-dollar catastrophe claims.
Jeff came to McLarens in 2019 to handle some of the most technically challenging specialty claims in the industry. After 21 years of work and thousands of appraisals, Jeff focused on projects that took weeks or months, instead of hours or days. In this role Jeff’s obsessive research thrives, as he is able to use his extensive background knowledge to provide premier customer service and results. He has over two decades as a specialty appraiser and has been recognized in the past for the quality of his reports and his ability to provide expert advice to other colleagues.
NOTABLE ASSIGNMENTS:
- Specialty Auto, Construction Equipment, Firearms: Fire (SoCal & Oregon fires) (USD $200 Million+)
- CAT damages to automobiles: Hail (USD $465K)
- CAT damages to autos: Hail (USD $235K)
- Natural gas power plant: Transport Collision (USD $350K)
- Industrial agricultural compost turner: Fire (USD $435K)
- RV warehouse: Fire (USD $2.4 Million)
- Boats in storage building: Fire (USD $8 Million)
- Commercial building containing 1,500 pieces of equipment and inventory: Fire (USD $1.2 Million)
- Agricultural tractor: Fire (USD $660K)
- Agricultural tractor: Fire (USD $450K)
- Industrial agricultural compost turner: Fire (USD $465K)
- California Central LNU Complex including Specialty Auto, Construction Equipment, Firearms: Fire (USD $420K)
- Specialty Auto, Construction Equipment, Oil Refinery Cooling: Hurricane Ike (USD $7 Million+)
- Racing trimaran upset at sea, requiring remote island inspection: Capsize (USD $225K)
- 300-ton crawler crane: Transport Collision (USD $980K)