| Carrier | State Farm Florida Insurance Company |
|---|---|
| Arguments used | Wear and tear · Seepage |
| 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 inference in the last sentence is the whole denial. Repeated leaking inside, therefore multiple events, therefore no single covered loss to pay for.
It is a reasonable inference and it is not the only one. A roof opened by one storm leaks every time it rains afterwards, which produces exactly the pattern of repeated interior water the adjuster describes, from a single event. Repeated leaking establishes that the building has been open for a while. It does not establish what opened it.
So the question the letter treats as answered is whether the first leak and the later ones share a cause. That is resolvable by looking above the ceiling rather than at the stain: what is damaged on the roof, whether the damage is directional, and whether its condition is consistent with one failure that was never repaired.
Florida DFS Civil Remedy Notice, filing no. 698730, accepted 6/7/2023, Parrish. The filing is not the letter: the passage below is the denial letter's own language as the policyholder quoted it, where the denial correspondence dated October 30, 2022 carries this language. · public record ↗
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