Wind-Only Customers Must Re-Apply TAMPA (WUSF) - Florida's largest property insurance company says customers with "wind-only" policies are going have to come back and re-apply if they want to keep their policies current.

Citizens Property Insurance wind-only polices use the same form to cover individual homes, condos, mobile homes and renters. Now, those 350,000 policy holders are being told to re-apply using a new, more specific form.

Paul Colombo, senior vice president of underwriting for the state-run insurer, says the more detailed insurance forms will enable the company to put all the files in an electronic database,

In addition, if a home's shingle roof is 25 years or older, the owner will have to replace the roof or provide plans to do so, before a new policy will be approved, unless the roof is certified as suitable.
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