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Flock raises £2.25M for on-demand drone insurance

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Re: Flock raises £2.25M for on-demand drone insurance

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What is the societal value of adding more (and real-time) data to insurance? In general, insurance helps spread risk. This means that if something drastically bad happens we distribute the impact over a larger population reducing the individual impact. In the extreme if you perfectly assess risk insurance ceases to have any value. The insurance costs would perfectly reflect the risk and there would be no benefit to o…

That is the dream - be a risk management and insurance company, rather than just the latter. We do reward people for safe flying and provide them with data in order make the best choices. This is why we are fairly transparent about where the price comes from (even if we do not necessarily tell people exactly how we calculated a price from the data).

If a customer knows that their price is high because, for instance, there are 2 schools within a 300 yard radius, chances are they can move their flight, thus endangering less people and saving themselves insurance premiums.

Re: Flock raises £2.25M for on-demand drone insurance

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post #8

What is the societal value of adding more (and real-time) data to insurance? In general, insurance helps spread risk. This means that if something drastically bad happens we distribute the impact over a larger population reducing the individual impact. In the extreme if you perfectly assess risk insurance ceases to have any value. The insurance costs would perfectly reflect the risk and there would be no benefit to o…

>In the extreme if you perfectly assess risk insurance ceases to have any value.

For low probability high impact risks insurance is very useful even if perfectly assessed. For example you might determine the risk of my house flooding in any given year to be exactly 0.1%, and the expected damage $100000. Having to pay $100k would be a disaster for me, but paying $110/year to an insurance company is small cost I might not even notice.

With perfect risk evaluation insurance is mathematically a bad idea, but unless you have limitless access to capital at market rates it's hard to get an advantage from not talking that insurance

Re: Flock raises £2.25M for on-demand drone insurance

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Interesting. Just learned recently that the biggest insurance risk with drones is fires from the batteries, during flight and during storage.[1] Not sure how on-demand would help with the latter. [1] https://jrupprechtlaw.com/drone-insurance

Care does need to be taken with LiPo batteries , ideally charging them with a compatible balance charger. If they are to be stored for a prolonged period, often the batteries can be discharged to a “storage” capacity. It is good practice to always charge and store your lipo batteries in a lipo safe bag (available from most hobby stores). Always follow the LiPo battery manufacturer guidelines!

With that out of the way: A subscription product is something that we're currently working on which will offer you out of flight cover. It's still in the early stages at the moment but if you sign up to our newsletter on our website you'll be the first to know when it rolls out.

Re: Flock raises £2.25M for on-demand drone insurance

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i know this is a bad question but the TAM for this is... not inspiring. this would be a nice small biz but i dont know how this is a venture scale biz. maybe they have plans to expand beyond drones.

Many insurance businesses don’t align with venture scale.
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