Remove hard drive before you have to leave notebook with insurance?

A friend has ruined my Macbook (water damage) and I get from his insurance now the purchase price of a new one refunded. However, I have to give my broken Macbook at the insurance. Even if the Macbook is broken, are still confidential data on the hard drive and I do not know what the insurance makes it. Can I now remove the hard drive in front of it? I can't format it before because it is also broken, but someone who is familiar with it can quickly read the data, so the question.

So, what does the insurance with the Macbook? And may I remove or destroy the hard drive? (Pierce with Spax)

No, you can't keep the HDD

With the payment of the sum insured or its use, the book belongs completely to the insurance.

It is thus the property of the insurance company.

The HDD would probably be deducted, but you should first clarify with the insurance.

In the worst case, the insurance company refuses the insurance.

Especially since you have to expand the RAM, this is partly synonymous readable. And also other parts in the book such as LAN and WLAN modules.

No, you will be willing to give it away.

what you should do: remove hard drive, connect to another PC (buy matching adapter on USB) and completely overwrite. Then reinstall

And what does the insurance company use the Macbook for? Will this be resold to hobbyists?

Thanks, I will contact someone who can do this. But ib that is possible after water has penetrated into the hard disk is questionable.

As far as known, often as illustrative object, test object, but mostly disposed of if only low residual value.

That you get a new Macbook, I think a rumor. Liability damage is ALWAYS limited to the time value. And if you dismantle the hard drive beforehand, we also deducted its value

The insurer wants to make sure that the same device is taken again for a claim. This is TARGETED and finally disposed of.

I can't get the notebook myself. But the sum of what my broken MacBook Pro tasted at that time (1300 euro) Thought also it is about the time value, but it is not so.

So can I really be sure that the data will not be read out or used otherwise?

An insurer does not want to sell your broken device FULL SAFE on ebay.

Also, insurance companies have a duty to their customers, especially data protection… They certainly have no interest in risking a "scandal" for 30 euro.