Two new lawsuits have been filed that seek to void all settlements and rulings involving customers of Citizens Property Insurance Corp. who were forced into an arbitration system funded by the state-owned company.

The suits, filed in Miami-Dade and Seminole counties, base their arguments on a Hillsborough County judge’s Aug. 2 injunction that suspended Citizens’ ability to send claim disputes to the Division of Administrative Hearings (DOAH) while a policyholder pursued his claim that the system violated his constitutional right to a fair trial.

The judge in that case, Melissa Mary Polo, found that the policyholder demonstrated that their argument, that the system violates policyholders’ constitutional rights, stands a “substantial likelihood of success” of prevailing. Citizens is app

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