| Carrier | State Farm Florida Insurance Company |
|---|---|
| Arguments used | Wear and tear |
| 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. |
Non-loss conditions is the phrase to note. It is a term of art that decides the outcome by naming: whatever was found is defined as not being a loss, and therefore not something the policy responds to.
The finding is that these conditions were present. That is a weaker statement than it appears. Wear and deterioration are present on every roof of any age, so establishing their presence does not establish that they caused the damage claimed. A roof can carry ordinary ageing and still have been damaged by a hurricane, and the presence of the first is not evidence against the second.
This is a Fort Myers property with a determination dated January 2023, which puts the loss in the Ian window. The question the letter leaves unanswered is the only one that matters: not whether non-loss conditions were present, but whether they account for the damage being claimed.
Florida DFS Civil Remedy Notice, filing no. 666857, accepted 1/10/2023, Fort Myers. The filing is not the letter: the passage below is the denial letter's own language as the policyholder quoted it, where the insurer inspected the home and roof system and provided a coverage determination letter concluding this. · public record ↗
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