Energy garant (insurance company)

Performance indicators

Energogarant's profit for 2020 increased by 62.7%, to 287 million rubles, but this is after a serious drop - back in 2017 it amounted to 370.6 million rubles.

History

2024: Restore electronics chain sued 1.6 billion rubles of Energogarant after a fire in a warehouse in the Moscow region

On July 5, 2024, the Moscow Arbitration Court satisfied the class action of companies associated with the Restore chain of electronics stores: against the Energogarant insurance company in the amount of 1.6 billion rubles. The decision was made in connection with the fire at a warehouse in the Moscow region, which occurred in May 2022.

According to Vedomosti, the court decided to recover the specified amount from the insurance company in favor of the three plaintiffs. The main part of the payment - 1.56 billion rubles and 16.4 million rubles as interest - will be sent to Restor LLC. The companies "Inventory DLM" and "Premium Networks" will be paid 25 million and 29 million rubles, respectively.

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Leonid Zubarev, senior partner of Seamless, representing the interests of Energogarant, said that the insurance company intends to challenge the court's decision. A spokesman for Inventive Retail Group, which includes electronics chain Restore:, declined to comment until after the lawsuit.

According to Dmitry Malyutov, chairman of the Kovalev, Malyutov and Partners MKA, in 2023 Energogarant acted as a defendant in more than 100 disputes, and the total amount of claims exceeded 2.5 billion rubles.

Ivan Rybakov, an adviser to MEF Legal, noted that property insurance programs in warehouses are a popular and popular product in the market, around which litigation often arises. In most cases, courts tend to protect the interests of property owners if insurers try to challenge payments by citing violation of fire safety rules or hidden warehouse defects.

Forward Legal lawyer Lyudmila Lukyanova believes that if the decision is valid in higher instances, the likelihood of its execution is quite high, given the size of the assets of the Energogaranta insurance company^[1]

2021: Alexander Davydenko approved by the general director of the company

Former head of the insurance supervision service in the Central Federal District Alexander Davydenko in 2021 was approved by the Bank of Russia as the general director of Energogarant.

As a result of the family war for July 2021, Zernov is wanted, Dyakov Jr. and several other company managers in the pre-trial detention center. Their opponents, Dyakov's heiress daughters, are not yet very successful in their attempts to gain control of the company.

2015: Company founder Anatoly Dyakov dies

After Dyakov's death, the company began to grow problems, obviously related to the fact that the heirs could not agree among themselves, which affected both the effectiveness of the company and its stability.

1994: Andrey Zernov was appointed General Director of the company

Since October 1994, Andrei Zernov, son-in-law of the founder of the company Anatoly Dyakov, has been appointed General Director of OJSC Insurance Joint Stock Company Energogarant. which remained its permanent leader until the business began to grow, and Zernov went for promotion heading the Energogarant insurance group.

1992: Ex-Minister of Fuel and power of the RSFSR Anatoly Dyakov creates a company

The history of the creation of the company is connected with the ex-Minister of Fuel and power of the RSFSR, the first president and chairman of the board of directors of RAO UES of Russia and the creator of SAK Energogarant Anatoly Dyakov. While Dyakov was in charge of power, the energy companies subordinate to him invested in the Energogaranta institution, which was created as a risk insurer in the electricity market, but later the company began to engage in all common types of insurance.

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