{"id":1075,"date":"2014-03-25T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robots.law.miami.edu\/2014\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2014-03-25T23:42:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T03:42:01","slug":"david-k-breyer-donna-a-dulo-gale-a-townsley-and-stephen-s-wu-on-risk-product-liability-trends-triggers-and-insurance-in-commercial-aerial-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robots.law.miami.edu\/2014\/?p=1075","title":{"rendered":"David K. Breyer, Donna A. Dulo, Gale A. Townsley, and Stephen S. Wu on &#8220;Risk, Product Liability Trends, Triggers, and Insurance in Commercial Aerial Robots&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robots.law.miami.edu\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Beyer-Dulo-Townsley-and-Wu_Unmanned-Systems-Liability-and-Insurance-Trends_WE-ROBOT-2014-Conference.pdf\">Risk, Product Liability Trends, Triggers, and Insurance in Commercial Aerial Robots<\/a><br \/>\nDavid K. Breyer, Donna A. Dulo, Gale A. Townsley, and Stephen S. Wu<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_890\" style=\"width: 163px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-890\" class=\" wp-image-890  \" alt=\"Donna A. Dulo\" src=\"https:\/\/robots.law.miami.edu\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Donna-Ann-Dulo-239x300.jpg\" width=\"153\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robots.law.miami.edu\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Donna-Ann-Dulo-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/robots.law.miami.edu\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Donna-Ann-Dulo-819x1024.jpg 819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 153px) 100vw, 153px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donna A. Dulo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The commercialization of autonomous aerial robots, \u201cdrones\u201d will become pervasive and ubiquitous across the national airspace over the coming years resulting in an increasing risk potential for drone operators and manufacturers. The risk and liability to these entities is entirely unknown due to the lack of historical data on which to determine liability triggers and trends to facilitate the development of accurate insurance underwriting trends. Product liability questions as well remain unanswered with causes of action such as strict product liability,negligence, breach of warranty, and the violation of the law against unfair and deceptive trade practices looming in the near future against operators and manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_896\" style=\"width: 154px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-896\" class=\" wp-image-896  \"alt=\"Stephen S. Wu\" src=\"https:\/\/robots.law.miami.edu\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Wu-200x300.jpg\" width=\"144\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robots.law.miami.edu\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Wu-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/robots.law.miami.edu\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Wu-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/robots.law.miami.edu\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Wu.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 144px) 100vw, 144px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen S. Wu<\/p><\/div>This paper presents these issues in light of available risk and accident data, primarily centered on historical military accident data with current accidents and mishaps that have occurred in the national airspace. It will address these issues in the context of manned and unmanned systems with the unique insurance issues and product liability issues that will face commercial owners, operators and manufacturers of drones that seek to limit their risks of liability and damage exposure through the purchase of insurance with both domestic and Lloyd\u2019s of London based markets being discussed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robots.law.miami.edu\/2014\/speakers-authors\/\" target=\"_blank\">Donna A. Dulo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.severson.com\/attorneys\/gale-a-townsley\" target=\"_blank\">Gale A. Townsley<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ckwlaw.com\/attorneys\/Stephen_Wu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen S. Wu<\/a> will be speaking on the Panel on Domestic Drones on Saturday, April 5th at 3:15 PM at the University of Miami Newman Alumni Center with moderator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.stanford.edu\/profile\/f-daniel-siciliano\" target=\"_blank\">F. Daniel Siciliano<\/a>\u00a0in Coral Gables, Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Risk, Product Liability Trends, Triggers, and Insurance in Commercial Aerial Robots David K. Breyer, Donna A. Dulo, Gale A. Townsley, and Stephen S. Wu The commercialization of autonomous aerial robots, \u201cdrones\u201d will become pervasive and ubiquitous across the national airspace over the coming years resulting in an increasing risk potential for drone operators and manufacturers. 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