| 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. |
The adjuster saw the damage. The filing records that plainly: damage to the roof and to the elevations was observed. The dispute is entirely about what put it there.
Sunlight, heat and normal weather conditions over time is a description of Florida. Every roof in the state is exposed to all three continuously, so the explanation is available for any roof at any time, which is exactly what makes it weak as a finding about a particular loss on a particular date. It explains the condition of every house on the street equally well.
The address is Cape Coral and the filing is dated December 2022, which places this claim inside the Hurricane Ian cohort. Damage to elevations, meaning the walls and their coverings rather than only the roof, is harder to attribute to sun and heat than shingle wear is, and it is the part of this finding that invites the closest look.
Florida DFS Civil Remedy Notice, filing no. 663386, accepted 12/20/2022, Cape Coral. The filing is not the letter: the passage below is the denial letter's own language as the policyholder quoted it, where the insurer's field adjuster observed damage to the roof and elevations, and attributed the cause of that damage to this. · public record ↗
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