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Across the US, hundreds of drone pilots are checking damaged properties from the air after disaster has struck. Why? To check the legitimacy of insurance claims.
After hurricanes, wildfires or severe hailstorms, insurance companies find themselves inundated with calls from home-owners desperate to claim so that they can carry out repairs. To speed up the process, US-based Travelers has trained 550 members of its staff to pilot drones to verify such claims, rather than getting humans to do the potentially dangerous work of directly inspecting damaged buildings. …