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Drone technology is anticipated to have a $6.8 billion impact on the insurance industry.

Understanding and minimizing drone risks

There is little disagreement that the drones can seriously injure or even kill someone. Understanding and minimizing the risk will be key to convincing regulators to expand their permitted uses.

By Alan Levin | Updated on March 09, 2017
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Only by testing can officials determine whether there’s a threshold of weight and design properties under which flights over people would be safe. (Photo: Bloomberg)

(Bloomberg) – Hank sat impassively on a Virginia Tech athletic field, ready to take it on the chin for the future of drone commerce.

About 30 yards away, an eight-rotor unmanned copter hovered, buzzing like a swarm of bees.

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