Insurers named the largest payments for car damage from bad weather

In 2025, the repair of a 2024 Chery Tiggo 4/Pro insured from the Penza Region was the most expensive — the insurer paid about 240 thousand rubles to eliminate the consequences of hail at the maintenance station. Lyudmila Yusova, head of the Rosgosstrakh Motor Insurance Payments department, told Izvestia about this.

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"Judging by the number of appeals that we have already received in the first seven months, we can assume that there will be more motorists affected by the disaster this year than in the previous two years," she said.

In 2024, the company paid 9.5M rubles for damage to a Sitrak tanker as a result of flooding in the Orenburg region.

In 2024, Rosgosstrakh spent the maximum amount of 1.3M rubles on repairing a one-year-old Jaecoo J7 from Karachay-Cherkessia damaged by a large hail.

The company "Consent" noted that in 2024, the number of payments related to natural disasters to vehicle owners was 13 times higher than due to theft and theft.

"The largest payments over the past year were 10.7M rubles, as a result of the flood, a Porsche parked in the garage was damaged. 4.8M rubles. — as a result of a heavy downpour, water got inside the Hyundai Palisade and 4.3M rubles. — a heavy downpour flooded the underground parking lot, a parked KIA went under water by 1.7 meters," they said.

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Natural disaster: bad weather caused damage to thousands of car owners