On 11/21/2010 4:47 PM, Bob Kuykendall wrote:
On Nov 21, 4:20 pm, Bruce wrote:
I would think a unit could be reasonably expected to work
for 10 - 15 years, so it's $200k to $300k per life saved.

If the economics are so compelling, the insurance companies ought to
be the ones pushing for it. What says Costello?

I'd like to hear an insurance company comment on it, but I suspect an
insurance company may not benefit from something like Flarm. One simple
case: all pilots equip with Flarm, company A's insurance payouts go
down, their competitors offer policies at lower premiums that company A
has to match to keep the customers, and ta-da! their profits are back to
pre-Flarm levels. So, no financial benefit to the insurance company.

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