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Originally Posted by janmcn
I must be missing something, but I don't see a scratch on either house. A catastrophic ground collapse occurs when a house falls into the sinkhole, which is what happened in Seffner when that unfortunate young man was sucked right out of his bed into the hole and his house plus the two adjacent houses were torn down.
Somebody's insurance company just paid tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars to have that hole filled. It's very doubtful they would turn around and pay another couple hundred thousand plus for the house and have it demolished and hauled away.
Insurance companies in Florida don't like paying money on claims. In fact, Citizens, the state run insurance, spent more money last year fighting claims than they did paying claims.
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I went back and read my home owners policy. It basically states to be covered under the Catastrophic Ground Collapse the foundation of the home needs to be compromised to the point where the local authorities deem the house uninhabitable. What is amazing in the photo is the portion of the driveway with nothing under the driveway slab and its still intact. I hope I never have to deal with something such as what I see in the pictures.