| Carrier | Castle Key Indemnity Company |
|---|---|
| Arguments used | Wear and tear · Pre-existing damage |
| What happened next | Civil Remedy Notice filed with Florida's Department of Financial Services, which opens a 60-day window for the insurer to cure. |
The letter walks the property and finds nothing sudden anywhere: not on the shingles, not at the gutters, not on the air conditioner fins. The phrase sudden and accidental is the coverage trigger, and it is applied here three times as a finding of fact.
The AC fins are the item to look at first. Bent condenser fins are a classic wind and debris signature, and they are hard to produce by aging, so a finding that they show unrelated damage is a strong claim that invites a specific rebuttal.
Prior repair attempts at the gutters is the other phrase carrying weight. Evidence of earlier repairs is not evidence that this loss did not happen; it is evidence that something happened before. Separating the two is a question of what was repaired, when, and whether the current damage sits in the same place, which receipts and dated photographs answer.
Florida DFS Civil Remedy Notice, filing no. 793875, accepted 11/22/2024, Fort Pierce. The filing is not the letter: the passage below is the denial letter's own language as the policyholder quoted it, where in correspondence dated October 17, 2024 the insurer determined. · public record ↗
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