stress testing your reinsurance program

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Does your reinsurance program contain adjustable rates and/or commissions? What happens when losses are more than expected?

Analyzing the implications of adverse loss scenarios with your reinsurer can help determine how your reinsurance will respond when you really need it, and how that response fits with your risk tolerance.

Are you looking forprotection from volatility?

Consider a wide swing or retrospectively-rated plan

Consider an AAD or increasing your net retention

Consider a guaranteedcost option

Consider buying NO reinsurance

Consider a contingent commission

Starthere!

Are you willing to risk a large portion of your surplus?

Does your regulator requireyou to purchase reinsurance?

Do you know how yourreinsurance program

will react to a limits loss?

Do you know how it will react to multiple large losses

in a single year?

Do you know how it willreact to large lossesin consecutive years?

What if multiple members/policyholders are involved in the same event?

Is consistency ofreinsurance cost the most important factor for you?

Are you comfortablemaking additional payments

after a large loss?

Is cashflow important to your organization?

Look for more information in upcoming blogs on each of the structures suggested, as well as ways to "stress test" each of them.

Abraham Kane /in/abekaneINAbe.Kane@genre.comE+1 203 328 5488P

Don Curtin /in/don-curtinINDCurtin@genre.comE+1 404 365 6805P

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