| Carrier | United Property & Casualty Insurance Company |
|---|---|
| Arguments used | Seepage · 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 letter concedes the loss and then reaches behind it. It accepts that a sudden rupture caused the damage, and says the water usage records support that. Then it looks at why the line ruptured, finds gradual deterioration, and applies the wear and tear exclusion to that.
This is the most important move in water-loss coverage and it is rarely stated this plainly. Almost every pipe that bursts was corroding first. If an insurer may follow the chain back from a sudden failure to the slow process that produced it, the sudden-and-accidental cover for plumbing losses would rarely pay anything, because pipes do not fail at random.
The distinction Florida forms usually draw is between the failed component and the damage the escaping water did. The policy commonly excludes replacing the worn pipe and covers the water damage that follows. A letter that runs the two together, using the pipe’s condition to refuse the water damage as well, is worth reading beside the policy’s own wording on ensuing loss.
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. 649835, accepted 10/3/2022, Port Charlotte. 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 adjuster set this out in correspondence dated September 27, 2022. · public record ↗
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