| Carrier | Edison Insurance Company |
|---|---|
| Arguments used | Wind-driven rain |
| 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. |
A partial denial down to a single window. The carrier is paying the claim, including $9,094.00 for other structures, and refusing the damage at one downstairs bedroom window because no storm-created opening was found there.
The reasoning is the standard wind-driven rain rule applied at close range, and applying it at close range is what makes it answerable. If the storm was strong enough to damage other parts of this property enough to warrant payment, the question is what happened at that window specifically. Windows admit wind-driven rain through failed glazing seals, through frames racked by pressure, and through openings that close up again once the wind drops.
The value in a letter this specific is that it commits the insurer to a location. A general finding of no openings covers the whole house and is hard to contradict. A finding about one window can be tested at that window, by a glazing contractor or an engineer, on a wall that is still standing.
Florida DFS Civil Remedy Notice, filing no. 661828, accepted 12/15/2022, Englewood. The filing is not the letter: the passage below is the denial letter's own language as the policyholder quoted it, where the same letter records payment being mailed, including $9,094.00 for other structures. · public record ↗
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