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Fla. Stat. § 627.4025 (2025)
Residential coverage and hurricane coverage defined.
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627.4025 Residential coverage and hurricane coverage defined.—
(1) Residential coverage includes both personal lines residential coverage, which consists of the type of coverage provided by homeowner, mobile home owner, dwelling, tenant, condominium unit owner, cooperative unit owner, and similar policies, and commercial lines residential coverage, which consists of the type of coverage provided by condominium association, cooperative association, apartment building, and similar policies, including policies covering the common elements of a homeowners association. Residential coverage for personal lines and commercial lines as set forth in this section includes policies that provide coverage for particular perils such as windstorm and hurricane or coverage for insurer insolvency or deductibles.
(2) As used in policies providing residential coverage:
(a) “Hurricane coverage” is coverage for loss or damage caused by the peril of windstorm during a hurricane. The term includes ensuing damage to the interior of a building, or to property inside a building, caused by rain, snow, sleet, hail, sand, or dust if the direct force of the windstorm first damages the building, causing an opening through which rain, snow, sleet, hail, sand, or dust enters and causes damage.
(b) “Windstorm” for purposes of paragraph (a) means wind, wind gusts, hail, rain, tornadoes, or cyclones caused by or resulting from a hurricane which results in direct physical loss or damage to property.
(c) “Hurricane” for purposes of paragraphs (a) and (b) means a storm system that has been declared to be a hurricane by the National Hurricane Center of the National Weather Service. The duration of the hurricane includes the time period, in Florida:
1. Beginning at the time a hurricane warning is issued for any part of Florida by the National Hurricane Center of the National Weather Service; and
2. Ending 72 hours following the termination of the last hurricane watch or hurricane warning issued for any part of Florida by the National Hurricane Center of the National Weather Service.
(d) “Hurricane deductible” means the deductible applicable to loss caused by a hurricane.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4
cases, 2009–2015 · leading case: Florida Ins. Guar. Ass'n v. Devon Neighborhood Ass'n, 67 So. 3d 187 (Fla. 2011).
Florida Ins. Guar. Ass'n v. Devon Neighborhood Ass'n, 67 So. 3d 187 (Fla. 2011). “, § 627.4025, Fla. Stat. (2010) (stating that residential coverage includes both personal lines residential coverage, such as that provided by homeowner's and similar policies, and commercial lines residential coverage, such as that provided by condominium association and…”
Florida Ins. Guar. v. Devon Neighborhood Ass'n, 33 So. 3d 48 (Fla. 4th DCA 2009). “See § 627.4025, Fla. Stat. (2005). The policy in this case constituted a commercial residential policy.”
El-Ad Enclave at Miramar Condo. Ass'n v. Mt. Hawley Ins., 752 F. Supp. 2d 1282 (S.D. Fla. 2010). “701(8) applies "only as to hurricane coverage as defined in § 627.4025,” which provides that "hurricane coverage” is “coverage for loss or damage caused by the peril of windstorm during a hurricane.”
State Farm Florida Ins. Co. v. Richard Moody, Roberta Moody & Robert Denney, 180 So. 3d 1165 (Fla. 4th DCA 2015). “in its policy the definition of “hurricane” sections 2(a) and 2(b) in addition to Section 2(c) of section 627.4025, Florida Statutes, there would be .”
— 627.4025(2) — 1 case
State Farm Florida Ins. Co. v. Richard Moody, Roberta Moody & Robert Denney, 180 So. 3d 1165 (Fla. 4th DCA 2015). “in its policy the definition of “hurricane” sections 2(a) and 2(b) in addition to Section 2(c) of section 627.4025, Florida Statutes, there would be .”
— 627.4025(2)(b) — 1 case
State Farm Florida Ins. Co. v. Richard Moody, Roberta Moody & Robert Denney, 180 So. 3d 1165 (Fla. 4th DCA 2015). “in its policy the definition of “hurricane” sections 2(a) and 2(b) in addition to Section 2(c) of section 627.4025, Florida Statutes, there would be .”
— 627.4025(2)(c) — 1 case
State Farm Florida Ins. Co. v. Richard Moody, Roberta Moody & Robert Denney, 180 So. 3d 1165 (Fla. 4th DCA 2015). “in its policy the definition of “hurricane” sections 2(a) and 2(b) in addition to Section 2(c) of section 627.4025, Florida Statutes, there would be .”
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