Severe rain and flooding that hit Istanbul and five other provinces have left Turkey's insurance sector with a bill close to 1.9 billion lira. Data from the Turkish Insurance Association shows 2,379 damage files were opened in the fire and casco branches under flood and inundation cover. A provisional compensation reserve of 1 billion 904 million 994 thousand lira has been set aside for those claims. The amounts are marked provisional because adjusters still need to finish inspections before final payouts are approved. Istanbul led the list of damage notifications, which shows how heavily the metropolis was slammed when waters rose. Flood protection in Turkey is usually sold as an extension to existing fire or vehicle policies, so many affected households and drivers had some measure of cover. The sector's tally offers one of the first hard measurements of how expensive the disaster will prove to be.