| Carrier | State Farm Florida Insurance Company |
|---|---|
| Arguments used | Wear and tear · Below deductible |
| 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. |
Daily, historical weather elements over time is an unusually explicit way of putting the argument, and it exposes the difficulty in it. Weather is the covered peril. The policy exists because weather damages houses. This finding uses weather as the reason not to pay, by spreading it across years until no single event is responsible.
That reframing is the whole contest in a Florida roof claim. A storm on a date is covered; the accumulated effect of many storms is excluded as deterioration. Which description fits depends on evidence that is available: whether the damage is directional and concentrated on the exposed elevations, as event damage tends to be, or uniform across every slope, as age tends to be.
The filing also records that the deductible was applied to the portion of the claim that was accepted, so this is a letter denying part of a claim while paying nothing on the rest.
Florida DFS Civil Remedy Notice, filing no. 656367, accepted 11/10/2022, Orlando. The filing is not the letter: the passage below is the denial letter's own language as the policyholder quoted it, where the insurer denied coverage for other damages to the roof caused by excluded perils, after applying the deductible to the balance. · public record ↗
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