A Florida court has approved a $6.8 million class action settlement for 12,000 State Farm Florida policyholders with hurricane claims for screen enclosure damage, attorneys for the plaintiffs announced yesterday.

Lee & Amtzis and Kopelman & Blankman law firm in Boca Raton, Fla., said the policyholders will receive 100 percent of the damages they sought with a lawsuit alleging State Farm refused to pay replacement costs of screen enclosures damaged by Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma.

State Farm spokesman Phil Supple said the problem had arisen because depreciation language standard for Florida insurance policies had been inadvertently dropped in printing up the policies for the five counties where the class plaintiffs are located.

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