All the headlines from our Drones Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 14 2018 // Grupo Aeromexico SAB is investigating whether a drone slammed into a Boeing Co. 737 jetliner as the aircraft approached its destination in Tijuana, Mexico, on the U.S. border.Images on local media showed considerable...
Dec 3 2018 // Fires across North America in 2018 have continued the pattern of extreme destruction established by significant insured loss events in both Northern and Southern California last year and the 2016 disasters in Alberta and...
Oct 8 2018 // Autonomous ships could offer significant growth potential for the London market, according to the findings of a survey conducted by the International Underwriting Association (IUA).Indeed, 25 percent of IUA members who...
Oct 4 2018 // Airline passengers can no longer be removed from flights under legislation that passed the Senate on Wednesday, while the government will write new rules to allow commercial drones to deliver packages and get new authority...
Oct 1 2018 // Verisk is now offering customers free access to Geomni’s high-resolution aerial imagery following major loss events. Geomni is a Verisk business.Geomni will provide online access to before-and-after imagery of...
Sep 28 2018 // The Wild West days of unregulated recreational drones may be nearing an end.A bill close to passage in Congress would repeal the current exemption for hobbyists from regulations and for the first time require them to take...
Sep 21 2018 // The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently granted a waiver to State Farm to allow the insurer the ability to inspect damage caused by Hurricane Florence.The approval, received just last week, allows State Farm to...
Aug 23 2018 // Long gone are the days when employees printed their resumes and cover letters on fancy paper, worried about choosing the proper font, and put both documents in the mail.The idea of employers printing paper job...
Aug 13 2018 // When police investigators tried to figure out what caused a multi-vehicle crash that killed an elderly woman in Morton, Illinois, last month, they looked to the sky for help.Like a growing number of police agencies...
Aug 9 2018 // Drone inspection company Betterview has released Property Profile – a new way to get a deep understanding of the characteristics and risks of a property and its roof.Betterview’s Property Profile uses satellite...
Jul 9 2018 // The U.S. government’s ability to police hobbyist drone use was upheld by an appellate court Friday in a ruling that helps set the stage for a series of new restrictions and requirements aviation regulators hope to...
Jun 29 2018 // REIN, an insurtech company providing insurance for risks posed by robotics, mobility and online ecosystems, has launched its first digital portal, DroneInsurance.com, offering drone insurance for commercial drone...
Jun 14 2018 // Science advisers to the federal government say safety regulators are hindering the spread of commercial drones by being too cautious about the risks posed by the flying machines.The National Academies of Science,...
Jun 4 2018 // At BP’s massive Thunder Horse oil platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, a dog-sized robot called Maggie uses magnetic tracks to creep along pipes connecting the giant oil facility to the sea floor. Before MaggHD,...
May 17 2018 // Over the last year or so, the insurance industry has seen technological advances driving new products and distribution means to market. We have seen “insurtech” blossom from a term to describe the intersection...
May 15 2018 // Andy Trench made $2,000 a day in 2015 taking sky-high photographs along the East Coast with a drone he made himself. Now, that same work fetches about $175.“It’s apparent that a lot of this industry is a race...
May 13 2018 // At BP’s massive Thunder Horse oil platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, a dog-sized robot called Maggie uses magnetic tracks to creep along pipes connecting the giant oil facility to the sea floor. Before MaggHD,...
May 10 2018 // The U.S. Transportation Department’s 10 winning drone pilot projects aimed at spurring the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in a wide variety of fields do not include Amazon.com Inc. and China’s DJI, but do...
May 9 2018 // Nationwide has made an investment in Betterview, a machine learning insurtech startup that focuses on analyzing data from drones, satellite and other aerial imagery.Betterview said it will use the undisclosed amount of...
May 1 2018 // On-demand robotic flying taxis and drone deliveries are years away from reality, but the U.S. Department of Transportation has removed at least one barrier to their operation.Responding to work by companies including...