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Originally Posted by petsetc
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Again - My question is whether anyone knows of an actual successful claim(s) under a sink hole insurance rider.
I am on a short timeline, so your input is greatly appreciated.
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Thousands of Sink Hole claims were paid in Florida, prior to 2020. I owned a home in Trinity for 10 years and I know at least 8 people on my street, who were paid by their insurance company for remediation of sink hole problems.
The previous problem with "sink holes", as regards insurance, was a definition that was adopted back in the hey days of sink hole claims. Most any "settling" of the earth was considered a sink hole, when it fact, there could have been many more causes of the settling.
Look up Pasco County & sink holes through Google. Pasco County was the epicenter of Sink Hole claims back in the day. I've been involved in numerous properties in Pasco with actual sink holes, claimed sink holes and just plain "settling". Anyone who's been in the insurance business in Pasco County, can give you an earful on the bad old days, when Insurance companies were paying out millions.
This is probably not the exact information you wanted, but I and many others, could write a book on the sink hole issue in Florida, specifically in Pasco County.
Here's some reasonably good information from the world famous Morgan & Morgan:
Florida Sinkhole Safety: What to Know Before Moving to The Villages | 5/27/2016.