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- New Swiss Re Sigma Study Shows: Reinsurance Poses no Systemic Risk
- Reinsurers play a key role in absorbing major risks in the insurance sector. For some time, a discussion has been under way with regard to the systemic risk inherent in reinsurance. It questions the reinsurer's role during capacity shortages and the effects this has on the primary insurance sector, examines...
- Case studies
- Insurance, Reinsurance, Retrocession
- At the apex is the individual who owns a home but does not have the financial resources to sustain a large loss. The individual insured pays a premium to an insurance company and in exchange, the company agrees to pay for any loss over a deductible. That's insurance. In exchange...
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- Risk Reporter
- This article reviews an unprecedented case law decision the New York's Court of Appeals has held, which says that many environmental claims from a single insured at different sites do not constitute a single loss for purposes of excess of loss treaty reinsurance policies. It further states that consolidation of...
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- Why Reinsurance Matters
- This article explains the importance of reinsurance. Risk managers and other purchasers of insurance rarely think about how reinsurance affects their company or the insurance they purchase for their company. Buyers of insurance mainly focus on the direct insurers -- the primary, excess, and umbrella carriers that provide the coverage....
- White papers
- Trends in the US Life Insurance Market
- This article presents the trends in the U.S. life insurance market. Life reinsurance is still attracting attention, but instead of steep growth curves and new players, industry observers now are inclined to talk about flat markets and continuing consolidation. While these are defining features of today's market, a closer look...
- White papers
- Underwriting, Claims & Reinsurance
- For insurers undergoing changes in structure, seeking to improve performance, looking to reduce costs, developing new areas of business, integrating and updating information and data systems or focusing on mitigating risks within the business, this paper provides support in key operational areas - claims management, reinsurance, underwriting, financial reporting and...
- White papers
- Casualty Specialty Update: September 2005
- This report provides information on payment of bodily injury claims across Europe as well as an update on the industrial liability and reinsurance markets. Liability insurers and reinsurers are faced by diverse approaches across Europe to the payment large bodily injury claims. Despite moves to harmonize minimum levels of available...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Stochastic Excess-of-Loss Pricing Within a Financial Framework
- This paper is aimed at the practicing actuary to introduce the theory of extreme values and a financial framework to price excess-of-loss reinsurance treaties. It introduces the reader to extreme value theory via the classical central limit theorem. Two key results in extreme value theory are presented and illustrated with...
- White papers 2005-04-22
- MBIA to Restate Seven Years of Results
- MBIA Inc. announced that it will restate its financials for the past seven years as a result of its accounting for two complex reinsurance agreements made in 1998 with Converium Re, previously known as Zurich Reinsurance North America. Reinsurance helps insurance companies lay off some of their risk on other...
- White papers 2005-03-10
- Transparency - A Key to Continued Success in the Reinsurance Industry
- The reisnurance industry is suffering from a crisis of confidence stemming from ratings downgrades, claims payment performance and, most recently, questions have been raised about long-standing industry practices, regulatory issues, and ethical standards. The collective reputation of this industry has taken a blow as a result. Several insurance brokers recently...
- White papers 2005-01-01
- Kalman-Bucy Filtering for Linear Systems Driven by the Cox Process With Shot Noise Intensity and Its Application to the Pricing of Reinsurance Contracts
- In practical situations, the number of claims to an insurance portfolio is observed but not the claim intensity. It is therefore of interest to try to solve the filtering problem, that is to obtain the best estimate of the claim intensity on the basis of reported claims. This paper states...
- White papers 2004-09-17
- mySAP Insurance Optimizing Processes in Reinsurance With SAP
- The insurance markets are in a constant state of flux. It is often the case that individual customer requirements or legal requirements have to be implemented in tandem with the need to optimize administration or service processes. It is therefore imperative that the chances and risks be made transparent and...
- White papers 2004-08-04
- What Qualities Do Lawyers Value Most When Selecting an Insurance and Reinsurance Litigation Consultant?
- Insurance agents, insurers, and reinsurers are spending more money and devoting more resources on legal services and insurance advice than ever before. More companies are embroiled in legal disputes or being sued. This article reveals how companies and their law firms are dealing with the increase in litigation and what...
- White papers 2004-07-01
- Reinsurance and Corporate Taxation in the United Kingdom Life Insurance Industry
- Two alternate lines of argument - the tax incentive and disincentive argument - exist to explain the reinsurance decision of insurance company managers. The former argues that insurance managers purchase reinsurance in order to reduce annual reported profits and lower tax liabilities, whereas the latter contends that reinsurance will increase...
- White papers 2004-05-15
- Current Conditions in the D&O Liability Insurance and Reinsurance Markets
- The directors and officers (D&O) liability market has experienced massive changes over the past few years. High-profile bankruptcies, accounting scandals, and greater legal and judicial oversight have led to increased scrutiny and a heightened threat of litigation for a firm's directors and officers. This paper discusses the evolution of current...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- Improving Risk Allocation Through Indexed Cat Bonds
- The purpose of this paper is to determine how the availability of coverage generated through the issuance of an index-linked cat bond affects the structure of an optimal indemnity reinsurance contract. For this purpose the paper considers the case of a primary insurer facing a catastrophic risk that endangers its...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- Life Reinsurance - A Perspective
- This article explains the opportunities available in the Indian insurance market. The Indian life insurance market displays many essential characteristics of an emerging vibrant and dynamic market - a relatively high level of awareness of life insurance, a growing pool of technical expertise (distribution, actuarial, underwriting, administration), and regulations that...
- White papers 2004-03-18
- Reinsurance 101: A Primer
- This paper explains about reinsurance. In the simplest of terms, reinsurance can be described as "insurance for insurance companies." While in a traditional insurance relationship the insured seeks to transfer the risk to an insurance company, the reinsurance relationship takes this risk transfer another step and further transfers it to...
- White papers 2004-02-01
- Commercial Insurance and Reinsurance Brokerage -Love thy Middleman
- In the insurance market, policies are sold through brokers or direct channels controlled by insurance companies. In contrast to captive agents, brokers act on behalf of the insured, typically serving corporate clients with complex and large exposures. Direct distribution channels are more suitable for personal lines and small commercial risks....
- White papers 2004-02-01
- Reinsurance
- Insurance for insurance companies is an international business. The very poor results in 2001 were due in part to the September 11 terrorist attacks which are likely to cost reinsurers more than $20 billion, at least half of the total insured loss, but also to the surge in asbestos-related claims...
- White papers 2004-01-01
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