Drones making the assessment processes faster and easier<\/p><\/div>\n

With each new tech gadget, such as Drones, wearable tech, the internet of things and connected cars consumers are expecting these elements to become a part of all their products.\u00a0 For more than 20 years, insurers offered a ‘pay as you drive’ policy either through a discount applied to low kilometres, or for products aimed at a market that is known for short drives such as APIA, which underwrote the risk based on the low km’s driven each year.\u00a0 We recently saw insurers starting to make claims assessments using drones which dramatically decreases the assessment time period for looking at the claim and obtaining real footage of that claim (although I know of one insurer that will do that, but still mail the cheque rather than deposit the funds). Insurers are already starting to assess the risk and conduct survey assessments using drones as well.<\/p>\n