I can't speak specifically to the iPad Otterbox, but I seem to manage to drop my phone 2-3 times a day, and it still looks like the day I bought it. That case is the best insurance I can imagine buying. A friend with the OB Defender case had his iPhone run over by at least one truck and left in the mud for a day before he found it, and the damn thing still worked. The screen wasn't even cracked.