Comment on Insurance Company Flew a Drone to Take Photos of Man's House and Canceled His Policy

LexiconDexicon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• freewheel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  IANALAIANYL. In the days before the internet, I had a family member who worked for an insurance company. Buried deep in the contract was language that allowed agents of said insurance company to come on the property at any time. Her job basically was to go to people’s houses and walk around taking photos, usually at policy start or in the case of a claim - before and after. If anybody harassed her, they were at risk of having their home insurance dropped. This was Miami in the 1980s fwiw.

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  • jtk@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve worked for companies that do this my entire professional career. They do work all over the US to this day. It’s just standard property insurance practice. It’d be dumb to insure a property, for both damage and liability, sight unseen. They send many notifications via mail, automated phone and the worker directly calls before heading over there, no one wants to get shot. It surprises me a bit people don’t know about it but, even though I’ve done work in the industry for decades, I’ve never see one of the inspectors at my house. I hadn’t heard of anyone using drones yet but they’ve used bulk flyover images taken from planes with special cameras for at least 15 years.

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  • Derproid@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sounds like a good way to get shot in some states.

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  • LexiconDexicon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wow, that’s insanely illegal

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• dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You don’t own the airspace over your property. The only way someone might get in trouble for flying a drone over your house is if they were looking in windows or harassing people somehow. Most pics from a drone aren’t a lot different from satellite photography.

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• MrMonkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The same reason flying airplanes isn’t “criminal trespassing”. Satellite and aerial photography happen really high up.

  No insurance company used a small toy drone to fly 50’ over his property for pictures.

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  • BettyWhiteInHD@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You are being downvoted but this is the case in the US. Public airspace is public airspace.

    Source: fly drones recreationally and for money.

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    • MrMonkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      People downvote things they don’t want to be true.

      It’s strange. It doesn’t work that way.

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      • Matt_Shatt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        But even if we downvote extra hard?

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