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Chapter 3: Reinsurance Flashcards

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Reinsurance

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Insurance where insured is an insurer

Insurers purchase it to transfer some of their own risk and reduce exposure to losses

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Why insurers buy reinsurance

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  • Risk transfer
  • Peace of mind (protection from catastrophe)
  • Balance out peaks and troughs
  • Releasing capacity
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Why firms sell reinsurance

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Gaining access to business otherwise not available
* usually due to regulators restricting local business
* reinsurers gain access to business they are not allowed to write directly
Becoming involved in a class of business on a trial basis
Pure business preference

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Retention/retained line

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Amount of the original risk the insurer is retaining

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Full follow clause

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Insurer makes all the claims decisions, just gives reinsurer with the bill

  • reinsurer can ask questions to ensure the settlement was made within the T+Cs
  • Reinsurer will want to make sure insurer has not paid an ex gratia or settlement to keep goodwill
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Claims Co-operation Clause

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Insurer advises reinsurer of claims and how they are handling it

Reinsurer doesnt have any rights to intefere with strategy or decision making

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Claims control clause

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  • Allows reinsurer full decision-making control with respects to claims
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Cede

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Act of sharing the risk with reinsurers

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Cedant

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Original insurer buying reinsurance

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Cession

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Share of risk passed to reinsurers

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Collecting note

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document to present claims to reinsurers for XoL RI

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Facultative RI

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  • purchased for an individual risk
  • only respond to claims on that one risk
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Non-proportional reinsurance

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  • RI where premium and claims do not directly correlate.

XoL and stop loss RI
Claims paid out in excess of a pre-agreed amount

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Proportional RI

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Premium and claims are shared between insurer/reinsurer in pre-agreed proportion (e.g. 20%)

Quota Share and surplus treaty RI

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Reinstatement

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Potential for a layer to be brought back to life, for payment of additional premium

price and number of times this can be done will be specified in the contract

e.g.

Layer of US$1m xs US$1m with 3 reinstatements

Total of 4 losses could be paid out on this contract or an aggregate of US$4m in smaller losses

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Reinstatement premium

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Price paid by the cedant for the reinstatement of the layer after a loss

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Retrocedant

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Reinsurer obtaining their own reinsurance

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Retrocession

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A cession where the entity ceding is already a reinsurer

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retrocessionaire

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reinsurer that accepts the reinsurance from the original reinsurerTr

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Treaty RI

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reinsurance that can be purchased to cover a wider portfolio of risks.

I.e. Whole class of business or whole insurer book of business

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Facultative Reinsurance (Fac)

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meaning optional/not compulsory

reinsurance which protects itself in relation to one risk only

can be used to transfer risk on only certain perils

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Accounts

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all risks that the insurer codes/allocates to a particular cob

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Situations where someone would want Fac RI

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  • Insurer has written a multi section policy but only really wanted to be on one section
  • Insurer has written a larger line than they wanted
  • Risk is unconventional
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Is reinsurance compulsory

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Negatives of Fac
- more time consuming - potential to be more expensive - if too expensive the risk loses money even before claims
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Fac obligatory RI
Insurer + reinsurer make agreement all risks it writes under a pre-determined set of criteria, has the choice to be ceded - Insurer has to optional choice. If ceded, reinsurer must accept
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XL RI
Excess of loss reinsurance - non-proportional - no concept of sharing the premiums/claims that way - coverage bought and sold in layers of any size - insurer has to consider potential claim size to decide how many layers of protection to buy
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XL layers
- dont have to be the same reinsurers - insurer can chose to retain the first layer rather than cede it
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Determining RI premium payable
- must consider policy limit (size of layer) - how often the layer might have claims to pay - lower layers will have more claims
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Working layers
- Lower layers in a reinsurance programme - higher premium
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Catastrophe layers
- Higher layers in a reinsurance programme - lower premium
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Premium for non-proportional reinsurance
- Shown on adjustable basis - reinsurer's calculation of the price will be based on cedant's overall GWP income - Start of year, cedant wont know how much that will be so pay a small amount up front
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OGPI
Original Gross premium income e.g. Premium US$100,000 adjustable at 5% OGPI If OGPI = 3,000,000 5% = 150,000 100,000 already paid as OGPI. US$50,000 in RI premium is due
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Deposit premium
Amount paid at the start of an RI contract If deposit premium ends up above calculated %, cedant does not receive refund if is also minimum premium Can be adjusted some time later (typically at the end)
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Minimum premium
lowest amount of premium payable on contract, irrespective later adjustments
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Claims under XLRI
insured has to consider whether a number of claims coming out of any one incident can be grouped - if grouped, can make a larger claim on the reinsurers - use collecting note which sets out details and financial loss
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Calculating reinstatement premiums
if non-proportional, works similar way to aggregate policy limit in overall terms e.g. 1m xs 1m 3 reinstatements 3.5m already paid in claims 500k left 3 RIPs 1 @100% and 2 @50% 2nd layer is 100% the value of the first layer, 3/4 are 50% layer 1 = 100, layer 2 = 100, layer 3 = 50 layer 4 = 50
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Stop Loss RI
variation on XL linked to insurer combined ratio triggers when combined ratio exceeds a stated point e.g. might have a policy to kick in when they reach 105% and could continue to pay out until it reaches 130%
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combined ratio
% of premium income represented by claims and operating costs (including cost of RI)
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Loss ratio
Pure comparison of claims vs premium
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Quota share treaty
every risk accepted, it will be ceded at an agree portion reinsurer receives every risk that falls within the criteria, even the good ones e.g. every risk has 30% ceded to reinsurer (30% quota share)
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Fronting arrangements
Local business accepting 100% quota share to get around local regulatory requirements
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Calculating restrictions to size ceded under contract
e.g. 30% Quota share up to a max of 5mil insurer writes inward risk of 6m with $600 premium too big to RI. to calculate how much it can cede, split into 2 elements: 1. amount that can go into reinsurance (5m) 2. amount which cant (1m) premium divided same way (500/100) 30% of the 5m can be ceded and 70% retained, likewise 30% of 500 of the premium will be ceded to the reinsurer insurer will keep 100 of the $1m that couldnt be ceded insurer will have 450 and reinsurer will have 150
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Surplus treaty / Surplus lines
- RI bought in lines - same as max lines/shares that it can accept on a risk - allows an UWs permitted line to be increased in multipliers of the original line - UW does not have to use them all each time just have the freedom to write any line
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Maximum retained line
Max an UW is permitted to write
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Surplus e.g.
$5 mil max line decide max they would ever want to write is $30m (need an additional 25m / 5x their original line) need a 5-line surplus treaty (5 lines of 5 m each added to their retained line)
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5-line surplus treaty e.g.
$15m line $5m from retained line take 2/5 lines taking $5m each totalling $10m (premium must be shared the same way) UW receives 15,000, they keep 5,000 but must pay 5,000 to each of the two reinsurers lines they have used claims are split the same way (10m each) - no restrictions on the amount of lines
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Reinsurance programme construction
- ideal gives neither too little or too much with reinsurers that will be there to pay claims at the right price
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Reinsurance programme principles
1. Consider if individual risks are unusual enough to not fit into prop/nonprop treaty 2. Think about CoBs and RI that falls into that class 3. think about XL protection for whole classes 4. Consider XL protection for whole account 5. Cherry on top might be Cat XL protection for the whole account
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TRIA
Terrorism Risk Insurance Act renewed in 2015 under TRIPRA
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TRIPRA 2015(and 2019)
Terrorism Risk Insurance Program reauthorization Act valid until 2026 still called TRIA
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Other Terrorism based government RI schemes
UK - Pool Re France - Gareat Australia - ARPC
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Flood Re
- every uk insurer that offers home insurance must pay into the Flood Re scheme - can continue to offer flood insurance - insurer pays up front and then claims back from Flood Re fund

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