| Carrier | Heritage Property & Casualty Insurance Company |
|---|---|
| Arguments used | Late notice |
| 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. |
This denial does not say the storm caused nothing. It says the carrier cannot tell, and blames the delay for that.
Late notice is the argument with the most law behind it in Florida, and the structure matters. Under the line of cases beginning with Kramer and running through Bartlett, late notice creates a presumption of prejudice to the insurer, and the policyholder may rebut it. Prejudice is the operative question, not lateness itself, and this letter puts prejudice in issue expressly by saying the insurer has absolutely no way to determine whether the storm caused damage.
That is a rebuttable claim rather than a conclusion. Dated photographs from the days after the storm, contemporaneous repair invoices, a roofer’s or contractor’s records, and the recorded weather at the address all bear on whether a late-reported loss can still be investigated. Section 627.70132 sets a separate statutory notice window, which is a different question from common-law prejudice, and a letter resting on delay engages both.
Florida DFS Civil Remedy Notice, filing no. 656900, accepted 11/14/2022. The filing is not the letter: the passage below is the denial letter's own language as the policyholder quoted it, where the November 11 letter denies all coverage, stating in pertinent part. · public record ↗
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