Denial of Insurance Coverage, Florida, Appeals

The Sixth District Court of Appeals Rules in Favor of the Insurance Carrier, Finding That Ensuing Water Damage is Not Covered...

Marshall Dennehey on 1/13/2025

State Farm Florida Ins. Co. v. Feltes, Fla. 6th DCA, No. 6D2023-0991, November 27, 2024 - This case arose out of the policyholder’s ongoing plumbing issues in her home. The insured property was built in the early 1960s, and...more

Applying Florida’s “Eight Corners Rule,” Eleventh Circuit Finds that Insurer Has a Duty to Defend Claim That Insured’s Faulty...

Troutman Pepper Locke on 2/1/2018

Addison Ins. Co. v. 4000 Island Blvd. Condo. Ass’n, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 26870 (11th Cir. Dec. 28, 2017) - The owner of a high-rise condominium building in Florida hired a contractor to replace the building’s concrete...more

Competing Causes of Loss: Florida Supreme Court Issues Decision Applying The Concurrent Causation Doctrine

Robinson+Cole Property Insurance Coverage... on 12/6/2016

We have discussed on a number of occasions the issue of causation when there are multiple causes of loss, some covered and some not covered. Most jurisdictions apply what is known as the efficient proximate cause analysis...more

Florida Supreme Court Decides that Concurrent Causes Equal Coverage

Carlton Fields on 12/5/2016

It’s said that “defeat is an orphan,” but insurable losses often have multiple, concurrent causes. In some cases, one or more of those causes might be outside the scope of coverage, either by omission or exclusion. In Sebo v....more

Understanding How Insurance Policy Conditions Apply When There is an Assignment of Benefits

Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP on 10/21/2016

Florida first-party property insurers have seen a dramatic rise in assigned insurance claims. In the typical scenario, an insured assigns her rights to receive insurance proceeds from a loss to a contractor in return for the...more

Denial of Insurance Coverage › Florida › Appeals

The Sixth District Court of Appeals Rules in Favor of the Insurance Carrier, Finding That Ensuing Water Damage is Not Covered...

Applying Florida’s “Eight Corners Rule,” Eleventh Circuit Finds that Insurer Has a Duty to Defend Claim That Insured’s Faulty...

Competing Causes of Loss: Florida Supreme Court Issues Decision Applying The Concurrent Causation Doctrine

Florida Supreme Court Decides that Concurrent Causes Equal Coverage

Understanding How Insurance Policy Conditions Apply When There is an Assignment of Benefits

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