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First Protective:
What the FL DFS Filings Show

3,498 residential property Civil Remedy Notices naming First Protective, 2022–2026. Ranked #4 of 435 Florida carriers by filing volume.

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3,498CRN filings naming
First Protective
#4Rank among 435
FL carriers
5.8%Share of all FL residential
CRN filings 2022–2026
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By Stuart Nixdorff, Founder of ClaimRestored — who took his own Hurricane Milton claim from a $23,266 offer to $1,352,367 recovered. Read the case. Reviewed 2026-07-31.

What this data is

A Civil Remedy Notice (CRN) is a formal filing made with the Florida Department of Financial Services under Fla. Stat. §624.155. It puts an insurer on notice of alleged bad faith and starts a 60-day window for the carrier to cure. Every CRN is a public record.

ClaimRestored maintains a structured corpus of 60,573 residential property CRN filings covering 435 carriers from 2022 through 2026. This page shows the aggregate pattern for First Protective. No individual filing, policyholder, or claim detail is published.

Read this before drawing conclusions. A CRN records an allegation, not a finding of wrongdoing. Filing volume also tracks market share — a carrier writing more Florida policies will tend to accumulate more filings. And roughly 99.9% of filings in this dataset were made with attorney involvement, so this is a picture of disputes that escalated, not of all claims.

Filing volume by year

YearFilingsRelative volume
2022128
20231,450
2024809
2025933
2026178

Peak year: 2023 (1,450 filings). 2026 is a partial year.

What policyholders alleged

Each filing can cite more than one reason, so percentages total over 100%.

Reason citedFilingsShare
Unfair Trade Practice3,21592% of First Protective filings
Claim Delay3,05487% of First Protective filings
Unsatisfactory Settlement Offer2,22163% of First Protective filings
Claim Denial1,98357% of First Protective filings
Non-renewal582% of First Protective filings

If your First Protective claim feels low

The pattern above tells you what other Florida policyholders formally disputed. It does not tell you whether your settlement was short. That depends on your policy language, your documented damage, and what the carrier actually itemized.

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Compare against the data

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Source. Florida Department of Financial Services Civil Remedy Notice public filings, residential property lines, 2022–2026. Aggregated by ClaimRestored. Carrier named as filed; corporate affiliates are counted separately. Reviewed 2026-07-31.

Questions about First Protective claims

How many Civil Remedy Notices have been filed against First Protective?
3,498 residential property Civil Remedy Notices naming First Protective were filed with the Florida Department of Financial Services between 2022 and 2026 — 5.8% of all residential property CRN filings in that period, ranking #4 among Florida carriers.
What do policyholders dispute most with First Protective?
The most cited reasons are Unfair Trade Practice (92% of filings), Claim Delay (87% of filings), Unsatisfactory Settlement Offer (63% of filings). A single filing can cite more than one reason.
Does a Civil Remedy Notice mean First Protective did something wrong?
No. A Civil Remedy Notice is a formal notice filed under Fla. Stat. §624.155 alleging bad faith, giving the insurer 60 days to cure. It records an allegation, not a finding. Filing volume also tracks how many policies a carrier writes — a larger carrier will tend to have more filings.

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