With so many consumers now using smartphones, insurers are seeing an increase in “gadget” claims. U.K.-based gadget insurer,
Most common claims include cracked screens, lost or stolen iPhones and iPhones dropped in the toilet or bath.
Other common iPhone claims, according to the insurer:
• Couldn't hear the other person when making a call
• Leaving phone on the car roof and it fell off while driving
• Pet knocked the phone off a surface
• Internet connection completely broken
• iPhone doesn't charge
• Screen freezes
The study found that 45% of claims have been for accidental damage to iPhones. According to Protect Your Bubble, one unlucky customer lost his iPhone after leaning over the side of a boat in Cyprus, to see it fall out of the rucksack and plop into the sea. And one owner reckons he was happily sitting in the local pub, when a friend spilled his pint of beer all over his phone.
Other iPhone insurance claims include losing the phone under the wheels of a bus after it flew out of a pocket, and a teenager being forced to hand over his phone to thugs after they threatened him with a machete.
Other more usual claims include losing internet connection, screen freeze, pets knocking the phone off a work surface and the fact the phone doesn't charge.
The insurer’s top 10 most bizarre iPhone Claims:
1. I dropped it from a hot air balloon
2. I lost it while skydiving
3. It broke when my son used it as a table tennis racket
4. I lost it while building a sand castle for the kids
5. I accidentally buried it in the garden
6. It fell into the kettle
7. I dropped it in a food blender
8. My dog chewed it to pieces
9. Juice from a defrosting piece of meat leaked into it
10. It flew out of the car window
