| Carrier | State Farm Florida Insurance Company |
|---|---|
| Arguments used | Wear and tear · Cosmetic |
| 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. |
Commensurate with the age of the roof is the whole argument compressed into five words. It says the shingles look how shingles of this age look, therefore nothing happened to them.
The reasoning is circular in a way that is easy to miss. Every roof that has been on a house for years shows some wear, so finding wear proves only that time has passed. It does not establish that a storm did nothing, and an older roof is not an uninsured roof. What separates the two is whether the damage pattern matches age or matches an event: age is uniform across all slopes, storm damage is directional and concentrated on the exposed elevations.
Blistering and granular loss are the specific conditions named. Both are genuine ageing mechanisms and both are also produced by hail, which is why the distinction between a blister that has popped from the inside and an impact bruise that has fractured the mat is worth an independent look before accepting this letter.
Florida DFS Civil Remedy Notice, filing no. 809807, accepted 3/6/2025, Riverview. The filing is not the letter: the passage below is the denial letter's own language as the policyholder quoted it, where the claims determination letter additionally claims the insured's shingles. · public record ↗
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