| Carrier | State Farm Florida 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. |
One month. That is the delay the carrier says destroyed its ability to investigate.
Florida law does treat late notice as creating a presumption of prejudice that the policyholder must rebut, but the presumption attaches to notice that is genuinely late, and a month is short by the standards of the cases. Roofs do not change materially in thirty days, and the letter’s own alternative finding shows the investigation was possible: it says the winds were not strong enough to damage shingles, which is a conclusion about causation reached from the evidence available.
That is the tension worth reading twice. The letter asserts both that it could determine the damage was not wind-caused and that it could not determine when the damage occurred. Those two propositions rest on the same inspection. If the file supported the first, the second needs more support than the passage of a month.
Florida DFS Civil Remedy Notice, filing no. 687415, accepted 4/10/2023, Gainesville. The filing is not the letter: the passage below is the denial letter's own language as the policyholder quoted it, where the letter first states that winds were not strong enough to damage shingles on the dwelling roof, then goes on to state this. · public record ↗
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