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- Home insurance companies are using drone footage to find reasons to drop customers.
- They have drones, manned planes, and surveillance balloons at their disposal.
- However, the images can be misleading or outdated, leading to unjust policy cancellations.
Here's another reason to hate drones.
Insurance companies across the nation are now using drones to aerially scope out customers' homes and suss out reasons to cancel their home insurance, The Wall Street Journal reported.
That's what happened to Cindy Picos, who told the Journal her insurance provider used a drone to take pictures of her California home's roof prior to deciding to drop her.