Relo Club to Provide "Hail Protection Body Cover" Privilege Service for SBI General Insurance Auto Insurance Policyholders
SBI General Insurance has partnered with Relo Club, in collaboration with AUTOLAB, to launch a privileged service offering a "Hail Protection Body Cover" for its auto insurance policyholders. This service provides a 15% discount, supporting vehicle protection against hail damage.
🔍 Collected: April 11, 2026 at 00:30 (24h 10m after Published)
🤖 AI Analyzed: April 19, 2026 at 23:36 (215h 6m after Collected)
Relo Club Inc. (part of Relo Group, Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market 8876), a top company in welfare outsourcing services, is pleased to announce the launch of a new service in its CRM business. This service will provide SBI General Insurance Co., Ltd. (headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: Nao Ono, hereinafter "SBI General Insurance")'s auto insurance policyholders with a specially discounted custom-fit body cover to protect their beloved cars from hail damage, in collaboration with AUTOLAB Inc. (headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President: Shun Senda, hereinafter "AUTOLAB").
This service offers products that can be used as a proactive measure against the risk of automotive damage from hail, which is increasing nationwide in recent years, at a special discount of **15% OFF the regular price for SBI General Insurance auto insurance policyholders**.
### ■ Risk of Natural Disasters Such as Hail is Doubling
Hail damage has been on the rise in recent years. Based on organized data from the Japan Meteorological Agency's disaster case studies, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries' crop damage reports, and analyses by the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, it is estimated that the scale of damage in the 2020s has increased approximately 2.5 to 3 times compared to the 1980s. *1 While damage was traditionally concentrated on crops, recent years have seen significant damage to urban assets such as automobiles, houses, and solar power generation facilities, indicating a significant change in the scale and targets of damage.
Hail frequently occurs in Eastern Japan, particularly in the Kanto-Koshinetsu region, from May to July. *2 For example, in May 2000, hail fell over a wide area from Ibaraki to Chiba, causing damage to 33,000 vehicles, estimated at approximately 13 billion yen. *3
As seen above, since the 2000s, cases causing widespread damage in a short period due to the development of cumulonimbus clouds associated with atmospheric instability have increased. Damage to automobiles, in particular, has become more frequent and severe.
