Comment Happened to me (Score 4, Interesting) 104
This year's renewal of home insurance cam with all kinds of new stipulations.
One was satellite photos from Google Earth with areas of my roof circled where they suspected some damage. I was able to have a conversation with my agent and the underwriter and tell them when we last replaced the roof, and assured them that we had been on the roof recently (Christmas lights) and got them to back off. It sounded like they were using some machine analysis looking for odd stain patterns.
My take is that the industry as a whole is trying to improve the quality of their assessments and risk exposure.