{"id":297,"date":"2019-08-30T14:26:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T18:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/?p=297"},"modified":"2019-08-30T14:26:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T18:26:38","slug":"florida-federal-court-recognizes-federal-admiralty-rule-of-strict-enforcement-of-warranties-in-marine-insurance-preempts-state-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/2019\/08\/30\/florida-federal-court-recognizes-federal-admiralty-rule-of-strict-enforcement-of-warranties-in-marine-insurance-preempts-state-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Federal Court recognizes Federal Admiralty Rule of Strict Enforcement of Warranties in Marine Insurance Preempts State Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to present a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/?attachment_id=298\">decision<\/a> in which we prevailed from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling is significant for its holding that the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals [encompassing the US Southeast including Florida] recognizes an established Federal Admiralty rule of law that warranties in marine insurance are to be strictly enforced. The ruling clarifies a number of inconsistent decisions in Florida holding that only navigational limits warranties were entitled to strict enforcement, and that the Florida Anti-Technical statute otherwise applied. The primary distinction is that the strict enforcement of a warranty excuses the policy from responding in the event of a violation independent of a causal relationship between the violation and the claimed loss, whereas \u00a0many states\u2019 laws, such as Florida\u2019s Anti-Technical Statute, require the insurer to prove a causal relationship between the violation and the claimed loss to deny a claim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to present a decision in which we prevailed from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The ruling is significant for its holding that the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals [encompassing the US Southeast including Florida] recognizes an established Federal Admiralty rule of law that warranties in marine &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/2019\/08\/30\/florida-federal-court-recognizes-federal-admiralty-rule-of-strict-enforcement-of-warranties-in-marine-insurance-preempts-state-law\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Florida Federal Court recognizes Federal Admiralty Rule of Strict Enforcement of Warranties in Marine Insurance Preempts State Law&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[298,12,376],"ppma_author":[417],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-appellate","tag-insurance","tag-maritime"],"authors":[{"term_id":417,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}