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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXVII
INSURANCE
Chapter 627
INSURANCE RATES AND CONTRACTS
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627.70132 Notice of property insurance claim.
(1) As used in this section, the term:
(a) “Reopened claim” means a claim that an insurer has previously closed, but that has been reopened upon an insured’s request for additional costs for loss or damage previously disclosed to the insurer.
(b) “Supplemental claim” means a claim for additional loss or damage from the same peril which the insurer has previously adjusted or for which costs have been incurred while completing repairs or replacement pursuant to an open claim for which timely notice was previously provided to the insurer.
(2) A claim or reopened claim, but not a supplemental claim, under an insurance policy that provides property insurance, as defined in s. 624.604, including a property insurance policy issued by an eligible surplus lines insurer, for loss or damage caused by any peril is barred unless notice of the claim was given to the insurer in accordance with the terms of the policy within 1 year after the date of loss. A supplemental claim is barred unless notice of the supplemental claim was given to the insurer in accordance with the terms of the policy within 18 months after the date of loss. The time limitations of this subsection are tolled during any term of deployment to a combat zone or combat support posting which materially affects the ability of a named insured who is a servicemember as defined in s. 250.01 to file a claim, supplemental claim, or reopened claim.
(3) For claims resulting from hurricanes, tornadoes, windstorms, severe rain, or other weather-related events, the date of loss is the date that the hurricane made landfall or the tornado, windstorm, severe rain, or other weather-related event is verified by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
(4)(a) A notice of claim for loss assessment coverage under s. 627.714 may not occur later than 3 years after the date of loss and must be provided to the insurer the later of:
1. Within 1 year after the date of loss; or
2. Within 90 days after the date on which the condominium association or its governing board votes to levy an assessment resulting from a covered loss.
(b) For purposes of this subsection, the date of loss is the date of the covered loss event that created the need for an assessment.
(5) This section does not affect any applicable limitation on civil actions provided in s. 95.11 for claims, supplemental claims, or reopened claims timely filed under this section.
History.s. 10, ch. 2011-39; s. 10, ch. 2021-77; s. 16, ch. 2022-271; s. 22, ch. 2023-172; s. 8, ch. 2024-139.

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Brandon Goldberg v. Universal Prop. & Cas. Ins. Co. (Fla. 4th DCA 2020).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal

...or “reopened claim” means any additional claim for recovery from us for losses from the same hurricane or windstorm which we have previously adjusted pursuant to the initial claim. . . . (emphasis added). This provision tracks section 627.70132, Florida Statutes (2017). Second, the policy contains this provision governing loss settlement: 3....
...tion as “any additional claim for recovery from us for losses from the same hurricane or windstorm which we have previously adjusted pursuant to the initial claim.” This definition tracks the definition of a “supplemental claim” set forth in section 627.70132, Florida Statutes, which states in pertinent part: A claim, supplemental claim, or reopened claim under an insurance policy that provides property insurance ....
...supplemental claim” or “reopened claim” means any additional claim for recovery from the insurer for losses from the same hurricane or windstorm which the insurer has previously adjusted pursuant to the initial claim. § 627.70132, Fla....
...3d 231 (Fla. 3d DCA 2019), and Milhomme v. Tower Hill Signature Insurance Co., 227 So. 3d 724 (Fla. 3d DCA 2017), as neither case applied the definition of a “supplemental claim” applicable to hurricane losses set forth in the Universal policy and in section 627.70132. Milhomme was a case where the insurer paid its own estimate of the insureds’ claim for water damage and stated that it would consider “supplemental claims for any damages discovered in the covered reconstruction and repair” of the insured property....
...l payment of its determination of the actual cash value. Id. at 241. Neither Milhomme nor Chavez are on point here. Neither case involved hurricane or windstorm losses, so neither would have invoked the definition of “supplemental claim” in section 627.70132, which applies only to hurricane or windstorm losses....
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Richard Lemon & Leanne Lemon Vs People's Trust Ins. Co. (Fla. 5th DCA 2022).

Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal

...claim does not affect any limitation for legal action against us as provided in this policy under the Suit Against Us Condition including any amendment to that condition. This language essentially mirrors that of section 627.70132, Florida Statutes (2016), which defines “supplemental claim” as any additional claim for recovery from the insurer for losses from the same hurricane or windstorm which the insurer has previously adjusted pursuant to the initial claim....
...al claims, or reopened claims timely filed under this section. Although not pertinent here, we note that post-trial, the statute was amended, effective July 1, 2021, to distinguish a “supplemental claim” from a “reopened claim.” § 627.70132(1) (a)-(b), Fla....
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Maritza Castro & Nancy Maura v. Citizens Prop. Ins. Corp. (Fla. 3d DCA 2023).

Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

...f the damage to her property until February 2020 when her tenant moved out of the property; and she promptly notified Citizens upon becoming aware of the loss and within three years of the date of the loss in accordance with the policy terms and section 627.70132, Florida Statutes....
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Patios West One Condo. Ass'n, Inc. v. Am. Coastal Ins. Co. (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2024).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida

its insurer was legally insufficient under section 627.70132, Florida Statutes (2017), because it did not

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