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Reinsurance is insurance that is purchased by an insurance company (insurer) from a reinsurer as a means of risk management, to transfer risk from the insurer to the reinsurer. The reinsurer and the insurer enter into a reinsurance agreement which details the conditions upon which the reinsurer would pay the insurer's losses (in terms of excess of loss or proportional to loss). The reinsurer is paid a reinsurance premium by the insurer, and the insurer issues thousands of policies. For example, assume an insurer sells one thousand policies, each with a $1 million policy limit. Theoretically, the insurer could lose $1 million on each policy – totaling to $1 billion. It may be better to pass some potential risk to a reinsurance company (reinsurer) as this will minimize the insurer's risk. There are two basic methods of reinsurance:
In the past 30 years there has been a major shift from Quota Share to Excess of Loss in the property and casualty fields. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License big issues in the reinsurance market? Q. I would like to know some big issues happened in the insurance or reinsurance market in the world. issues affecting the australian market is preferred. Asked by leochewbacca - Tue Mar 4 05:10:57 2008 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments A. Any catastrophic type events that affect the reinsurance market are going to affect the entire world, not just the place that the catastrophe happened. 9-11 comes to mind. As well as many of the hurricanes that have hit many different countries, not too mention the typhoons in Asia. Any major disaster that you can think of probably affected the reinsurance market. Hope this helps a bit! Answered by Jason S - Tue Mar 4 10:07:31 2008 can any one tell me the problems of reinsurance plz ? ( i don't want the explanation i just want the titles) Q. i need only the titles of the problems Asked by yazan s - Fri Apr 18 16:28:42 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments A. Charging a premium that is inadequate to the risk assumed Underestimating the exposure to loss Catastrophe exposure leading to multiple claims Relying on primary underwriting that is incompetent Answered by Tom Z - Fri Apr 18 22:42:04 2008 what is facultative reinsurance?
Q. what is facultative reinsurance? Asked by portsmouthdom - Mon Mar 6 12:29:04 2006 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments A. Faculative Reinsurance is an insurance industry term: For risks on particular cases that the primary insurer does not want to 'carry' -- that primary insurance company can 'shop it' at OTHER, secondary insurance companies who DO want to accept this particular risk. This second insurance company is the Reinsurance provider. Consumer benefits of a Life Insurance policy that has been 'placed' using Reinsurance is that, for a 'special risk' (not best health class) applicant, this person can get a GOOD offer from the primary insurer (otherwise, the good, but picky primary Life Insurance company might just decline the application). Why is it GOOD to be accepted by a high quality, financially strong Life Insurance carrier vs. a low quality,… [cont.] Answered by greendog - Mon Mar 6 15:40:41 2006 From Yahoo Answer Search: "Reinsurance" ROSEFF v. MMK REINSURANCE, LTD. - Leagle.com
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