Insurance
Oct. 19, 2016
Insurers turn to drones
Insurance companies have the right, and indeed the duty, to thoroughly investigate claims. And more and more often these days, they're using drones to do it. By Robert McKennon and Scott Calvert
Robert J. McKennon
Shareholder
McKennon Law Group PC
20321 SW Birch St Ste 200
Newport Beach , CA 92660
Phone: (949) 387-9595
Fax: (949) 385-5165
Email: rm@mckennonlawgroup.com
USC Law School
Robert specializes in representing policyholders in life, health and disability insurance, insurance bad faith, ERISA and unfair business practices litigation. His firm's California Insurance Litigation Blog can be found at www.californiainsurancelitigation.com.
Insurance companies have the right, and indeed the duty, to thoroughly investigate claims. In California, an insurer's failure to reasonably investigate an insurance claim may result in bad faith liability. See Egan v. Mutual of Omaha Ins. Co., 24 Cal. 3d 809, 819 (1979); Guebara v. Allstate Ins. Co., 237 F.3d 987, 996 (9th Cir. 2001).
In the process of those investigations, insurers o...
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