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Florida issues emergency rule to prevent ‘post-storm fraud’ by insurers

The directive issued just before Hurricane Milton’s landfall aims to protect homeowners against “unfair and deceptive acts” by insurers handling disaster claims.

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Robert Haight looks around his destroyed house on Wednesday after it was hit by a tornado spawned by Hurricane Milton in Fort Myers, Fla. (Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images)
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TAMPA — On Wednesday evening, just before Hurricane Milton made landfall on an already storm-battered region of Florida, state officials issued an emergency rule to protect homeowners against “unfair and deceptive acts” and “post-storm fraud” by insurance carriers.

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