California firefighters could knock drones out of the sky when they endanger aircraft making low-altitude runs to drop water on wildfires, under a bill lawmakers proposed.
Google Inc., the company that brought order to the Internet, has set its sights on doing the same for the flocks of commercial drones expected to someday clog the skies.
The trends impacting insurance and reinsurance companies are typically aligned, but sometimes the trends push and pull in an opposing (but complementary) way.
Telematics, automotive safety and infotainment are expected to drive more than 15% year-over-year growth in the connected car market over the next decade. And these trends will create seismic shifts in the P&C insurance industry landscape.
Forensics investigation firm Donan received its second FAA exemption for the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, also known as drones), joining an elite group that includes insurance carriers such as State Farm, USAA and AIG. The exemption applies to its fleet of fixed-wing multi-rotor UAVs, which can be used...
As the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) continues to take steps to ease restrictions on commercial drone use, State Farm, Erie, Travelers and Amazon have become the most recent household names permitted to test unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).