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Home > Blog > Have a new Drone? Understand Your Liability Risks
MONDAY, APRIL 16, 2018

Have a new Drone? Understand Your Liability Risks

Have a new Drone? Understand Your Liability Risks

More and more American homes include a new addition: a drone. While these gadgets can be loads of fun to fly, they also come with responsibility and risk of property damage and bodily injury.

And as people start flying drones, there will be accidents and injuries followed by claims and even lawsuits.

If you are like most people, you were not thinking about insurance when you purchased a drone for you kid. But you'll want to make sure you are properly covered for any accidents, particularly if the victim of is a third party.

The liability protection in homeowners or renters insurance policies will sometimes cover damage or injury from a drone crashing into a neighbor's house, vehicle, or child. Yet this coverage isn't universal and some policies specifically carry an aviation exclusion that encompasses recreational drones, which the Federal Aviation Administration currently classifies as small aircraft.

While your homeowner's policy would likely cover damage if your drone crashes into a neighbor's car, your policy would not cover damage to your own property.

Insurers view drone mishaps as akin to having your mastiff destroying your neighbor's shrubbery, but not your own. In other words, they'd cover the damage to your neighbor but not to your own stuff.

If you are uncertain about your policy covering drone liability, contact your agent so they can check it for you.

In the likely case that it won't be covered, you can buy drone insurance through individual liability coverage.

 

Other issues

Liability coverage for physical damage isn't the only kind of coverage you might need.

Insurance lawyers foresee a rise in invasion of privacy claims, which falls under personal injury. If your drone accidentally captures images of a neighbor, and that neighbor feels you have violated his or her privacy, you could be sued.

An umbrella policy or the personal injury section of homeowners insurance could protect you in this case.

But if the invasion of privacy was intentional, like posting photos of your neighbor in a compromising position online, the insurer would not cover the claim.

Thank you for visiting the Partners Insurance Agency blog. We hope you found our content helpful and informative.

Posted 12:00 PM

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