Forfeiture Of Coverage Not Warranted Under Fraud Provision, Majority Says, Reverses

(September 12, 2022, 12:24 PM EDT) -- DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Reversing a lower court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of a homeowners insurer in a coverage dispute over storm damage, a majority of a Florida appeals court held Sept. 9 that the lower court erred in finding that the insured’s affirmative misrepresentations as to the preloss condition of her property warranted forfeiture of coverage under the policy’s concealment or fraud provision....