The property-casualty industry is fighting a Florida class action lawsuit based on the premise that insurers are responsible for flood as well as wind damage to insured properties.

The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies along with State Farm Insurance Company has filed a friend of the court brief in the case of Citizens Property Insurance Corp. v. Scylla Properties, et al.

Industry lawyers filed the brief on Sept. 30 in the District Court of Appeals for the 1st District of Florida in Tallahassee.

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