OREANDA-NEWS. Insurance companies in the first quarter of 2017 concluded 760 thousand contracts of compulsory motor TPL insurance in electronic form, thereby exceeding by 2.3 times the volume of total sales for 12 months of last year. It was announced by the president of the Russian Union of Motor Insurers (RSA) Igor Yurgens.

«The results of the first three months of 2017 show that the insurers began to develop actively electronic sales of OSAGO. In general, e-OSAGO enjoys popularity in those regions where there were problems with the availability of policies as a result of the activities of auto insurance companies, « said Mr. Yurgens.

He recalled that in the whole 2016 year, when insurers sold electronic policies of «autocitizen» voluntarily, 330,000 such contracts were concluded.

«In some regions, the share of electronic sales of OSAGO was more than half of the total number of sold policies. For example, in Karachaevo-Cherkessia the share of e-OSAGO is 63%, in Adygea - 48%, in Lipetsk region - 33%, « – Mr. Yurgens said, adding that in Russia as a whole, the share of e-OSAGO is 9%.