OREANDA-NEWS. August 27, 2012. Ingosstrakh Insurance Company accepts applications from the dwellers of Mezhdurechensk, Kemerovo Region, suffered from the violent hail showers in the evening of August 14, 2012. As of 4 P.M. on August 15, 56 claims for damage indemnification had been received from policy holders.

The majority of insurable events were related with broken glass and damage to body parts of transport vehicles from the hail shower, as well as with falling of various items on cars resulting from rushes of wind. Additional staff members of the company were ordered to Ingosstrakh Insurance Company office in Mezhdurechensk to immediately settle the losses, and office hours were extended.

To recap, on August 14, at about 8 P.M. local time, a violent hail shower took place in the south of Kemerovo Region. Hailstones of the chicken egg’s size broke car windows and damaged roofs. EMERCOM regional administration alerts that hail shower and squall wind are expected in the south of Kemerovo Region.