OREANDA-NEWS. August 9, 2010. Ingosstrakh notes the increase in amount of claims for damage from agricultural producers under crop insurance contracts due to the 2010’s draught. Only during the period from the 15th to 30th the insurer registered 65 claims from the insurants in connection with this adverse natural phenomenon for the total amount of 161 mln rubles. Altogether 152 claims from the insurants for the total amount of 455 mln. rubles were recorded since the beginning of the year.

The major damage was inflicted by the heat wave to the Ingosstrakh’s clients in the following regions:

Territory

Amount of claims recorded

Claimed, mln rubles

Republic of Tatarstan

37

122.7

Voronezh Region

21

46.1

Saratov Region

17

19.7

Tula Region

15

79.8

Republic of Mordovia

15

38.1

Samara Region

10

8.0

Republic of Kalmykia

8

22.4

Tyumen Region

7

12.2

Republic of Adygeya

4

30.7

Volgograd Region

2

14.2

Republic of Bashkortostan

2

10 5

Ryazan Region

2

9.8

Chuvash Republic

2

4.8

Omsk Region

1

12. 0

Belgorod Region

1

10.1

Chelyabinsk Region

1

1.4

Note that the insurance company keeps receiving new claims from the insurants for harvest damage due to the draught.