Elite Insurance Law PLLC

There's a cap on water damage buried in a lot of Florida policies.

Many policies limit what they pay for certain kinds of water damage. For mold, the limit is often ten thousand dollars or less. Now think about what water does to a Florida home. It gets under floors, into drywall, behind cabinets. Ten thousand dollars can disappear before the kitchen is half done.

Three things worth doing. Read your policy for the words water damage limitation or mold limit, so the number doesn't ambush you. Move fast when water shows up, because the longer it sits, the more your claim shifts from covered water damage toward capped mold damage. And document everything from the start.

DM me the word CLAIM and I'll send you a link to book a free consultation.

Your policy might pay for your hotel.

It's called loss of use, or additional living expenses. If a covered loss forces you out of your home, your policy can pay the reasonable extra costs of living somewhere else while it's repaired. The hotel. The short-term rental. Even meals out when you have no kitchen.

After a storm, families drain their savings on a motel for weeks and never ask for a cent of it back. Nobody told them it was covered.

Check your policy for loss of use before you need it. And if you get displaced, keep every receipt from day one. Those receipts are the claim.

DM me the word CLAIM and I'll send you a link to book a free consultation.

Most claims don't need a lawyer. Here's how to tell.

If your insurer accepted the claim, the check matches your contractor's estimate, and the paperwork doesn't sign away rights you want to keep, cash it. Fix your home. Move on.

Now the other side. Get help when the denial doesn't match what you can see with your own eyes. When the payment sits far below a real repair estimate and nobody explains the gap. When the process stalls: the same documents asked for again and again, weeks of silence, adjusters who keep changing.

Those patterns rarely fix themselves.

Not sure which one yours is? DM me the word CLAIM and I'll send you a link to book a free consultation.

"Wear and tear" is a position. It is not a fact.

Insurance covers sudden damage. It does not cover things wearing out over time. After a storm, those two stories compete. You say the hurricane damaged your roof. The insurer says the roof was already old.

That call gets made by someone the insurance company pays. An old roof does not mean the storm left it alone. Photos from before the storm, inspection records, and the pattern of the damage can all push back on that story.

If those words are in your letter, DM me the word CLAIM and I'll send you a link to book a free consultation.

Ten minutes today can save your next insurance claim.

Take out your phone and walk through your house. Open the closets. Open the drawers. Say the date out loud while you film. Then email the video to yourself, so it lives somewhere outside your house.

After a big loss, your insurance company asks you to list everything you owned. From memory. During the worst week of your year. People forget whole rooms. The video remembers for you.

Ten minutes, once a year. Do it this weekend.

DM me the word CLAIM and I'll send you a link to book a free consultation.

If you’re dealing with recurring plumbing leaks, your insurance may cover more than just the visible water damage, it could include access and even replacement of your entire water distribution system.

Many homeowners only get repairs for the affected area, without realizing their policy may support a full system replacement to prevent future leaks.

Click the link below to schedule a free consultation and let us review your policy to see what you may be entitled to.

Many homeowners assume water damage from a broken pipe or toilet overflow is flood damage that is never covered under a standard homeowner’s insurance policy, but the source of the water can completely change how a claim is treated.