Smith Adjusting, Inc. was Founded in 1997 by David A. Smith, as a multi-line, independent insurance adjusting firm. It has as its primary goal to provide prompt, professional services to the insurance and blasting industries.

Smith Adjusting's clients include underground and surface coal mine companies as well as quarries, road construction contractors, various self-insureds, and insurance companies. Feel free to contact us for a referral listing.

Smith Adjusting's geographic area includes most of West Virginia, parts of Ohio, Kentucky, and Virginia, occasionally Pennsylvania and Tennessee. They specializes in blasting claims and industrial claims, has experience in forensic geology and investigation of the effects of geologic hazards and natural occurrences on man-made structures and landforms/features, and has researched the effects of vibration on buildings, groundwater and man-made structures.

In thousands of cases, Smith Adjusting has inspected and documented conditions and defects in man-made structures and landforms, prior to and after vibration episodes from events such as blasting, pike driving, demolition and other vibration-producing operations. They have investigation hundreds of claims of damage to structures and landforms alleged to have resulted from vibration due to blasting, pike driving, compaction, equipment and/or machinery operations, and also from each movement and other naturally occurring environmental forces. Smith Adjusting has also conducted groundwater monitoring and investigations before, during and after vibration events.

Dave's expertise includes interpreting seismic events, as well as interpreting results from octave band analyzers and other precision sound measurement. He also identifies and expands applications for remote environmental monitoring (vibration, water, dust, sound, etc.) installations that use earth orbiting satellites for operations and data transfer.
Dave provides vibration consulting to mines, quarries, construction, and operations that use explosives and produce vibration, as well as to property/structure owners subjected to vibration.

Dave also has nearly 25 years of experience in legal testimony and has been involved in many cases resulting in a verdict for the defendant. His experience in construction, quarrying, and mining cases includes testimony on claimed damage to structures, water supplies, and other personal property, as well as the likelihood of the effects of environmental events on property.

Dave regularly attends courses and seminars offered by professional societies, state and federal agencies in physics, seismology, geology, blasting, etc., as well as classes at University of Kentucky, Kentucky Mining Engineering, Blasting Conferences, West Virginia Coal Conferences.

Professional Registration & Education:

• Business Administration -Finance & Marketing, Marshall University
• Licensed Professional Adjuster-Kentucky #351663
• Licensed Professional Adjuster-West Virginia #61815
• Approved as a pre-blast inspector by WVDEP/Office of Explosives and Blasting
• Three (3) Licensed Pre-Blasting Surveyors on Staff

Professional Memberships:

• Member, International Society of Explosives Engineers
• Kentucky & Louisville Claims Association Member

Education background:
Marshall University graduate Bachelors degree in Business Administration and a Licensed General Claims Adjuster/AIC,Member Bluegrass claims association and International Society of Explosive Engineers.