| Carrier | United Property & Casualty 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. |
North Port sits inland of Ian’s landfall and took the storm’s core. This letter finds the roof aged and the pool lanai screens damaged by lichen and vine overgrowth.
The screens are the striking part. A screen enclosure is a large, flat, wind-catching surface and it is the first thing to fail in a hurricane; attributing its damage to plant growth is an unusually specific alternative. It is also a testable one. Vine damage is localised where the vine grows and leaves organic residue on the frame. Wind failure is directional, tears panels along the spline, and bends or twists the aluminium members.
Blistering and degranulation on the roof are genuine ageing signs, so the letter is not wrong to note them. The question a denial like this leaves open is whether age explains all of the damage or merely some of it, and on a house that stood in a major hurricane the burden of that distinction should not rest on the homeowner alone.
United Property & Casualty was declared insolvent in 2023 and its Florida policyholders were moved to the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association.
Florida DFS Civil Remedy Notice, filing no. 676780, accepted 2/21/2023, North Port. The filing is not the letter: the passage below is the denial letter's own language as the policyholder quoted it, where the carrier denied full coverage for the loss and noted this in the denial letter. · public record ↗
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