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Hail storm damadge

JACKO77
JACKO77 Posts: 22 Forumite
in Insurance & life assurance
does anybody know if your car is covered for hail stone damadge.

Every car at work has been blasted by hail the size of tennis balls smashing windows and denting every panel.

will we be able to claim on insurance.

Dave

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  • InsideInsurance
    InsideInsurance Posts: 22,460 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Yes, if you have comprehensive insurance, its covered under the accidental damage section but will count as a fault claim
  • weighty1_2
    weighty1_2 Posts: 373 Forumite
    Hail stones the size of tennis balls? In the UK? Today? REALLY?????
  • JACKO77
    JACKO77 Posts: 22 Forumite
    Yep. In Hinckley Leicestershire.

    The Town is complete carnage!
  • agrinnall
    agrinnall Posts: 23,344 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    'Tis indeed true, picture of a large chunk of ice at the end of this story:

    http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Leicestershire-battered-storms-torrential-rain/story-16464588-detail/story.html
  • weighty1_2
    weighty1_2 Posts: 373 Forumite
    JACKO77 wrote: »
    Yep. In Hinckley Leicestershire.

    The Town is complete carnage!
    Wow!! I've got no idea about the car insurance side of things (although it looks like that has been covered) but I hope that nobody has been killed! That chunk of ice looks deadly.
  • mariamt
    mariamt Posts: 5 Forumite
    Im from burbage, we had a window broken and tiles off the roof. Im not allowed to post links to the image, i have one of a huge hail stone from my garden
  • mariamt
    mariamt Posts: 5 Forumite
    you can see my pic on twitter #hailstorm (username: mariaxxx)
  • Christina911
    Christina911 Posts: 1 Newbie
    I'm in Hinckley/Burbage too. Had to pull into the station in the car, opened the window as couldn't see the road and got hit in the face by a solid lump of ice, larger than a golf ball - as did my 3 year old daughter who was sat in the back absolutely terrified. I'd be very surprised if there weren't serious injuries.

    Myself and many people down our street have lost roof tiles, fences are hole-punctured, cars are all dented and conservatory rooves have smashed. Never known anything like it.
  • mayurrao
    mayurrao Posts: 1 Newbie
    Tenth Anniversary Combo Breaker
    my conservatory roof has been damaged by the golf size hail, would this be covered in insurance? process for this?
  • rs65
    rs65 Posts: 5,682 Forumite
    Ninth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    mayurrao wrote: »
    my conservatory roof has been damaged by the golf size hail, would this be covered in insurance? process for this?

    Check your buildings policy - you should be covered for storm.

    It should also tell you how to make a claim.
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