OREANDA-NEWS. July 24, 2012. As on 4 p.m. July 16, Ingosstrakh Insurance Company received 14 claims from ensures due to heavy shower that took place in Moscow and the region on Friday 13. The main reason of appeals is vehicle flooding. The claimed amount of damage is about 800k rubles. The exact damage, especially on flooding cases is originally difficult to estimate as the main damaged units are electrical systems of the vehicle. The scale and cost of damage can possibly be estimated after thorough diagnostics in the service center. The final amount of damage may exceed the initial estimate several times.

According to insurers’ claims, several cases of vehicle flooding occurred in the center of Moscow: Khohlovskiy pereulok, B.Vatin Pereulok, Lobachika Street, Spartakovskaya Street. Two cases were detected in the beginning of Varshavskoe highway and in Vladimirskaya Street, where trees had fallen on vehicles due to wing gust.

Paying your attention that damage caused by "natural disasters", including such things as flood, hurricane, hail are insured event as by KASKO car insurance contract  and by natural person property insurance contracts.

As it is known, the last Friday shower in the capital city had flooded several streets in the center of the city, Solyanka, Ordynka, Spartakovskaya square and Sadovnicheskaya Street in particular. The level of water in some areas was high enough to completely cover vehicles wheels and flooded passenger compartments. It had been raining in other city districts; most underfloodings were detected in the north and in the center of Moscow.