stress testing your reinsurance program
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Analyze
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/[email protected]+1 203 328 5488P
Don Curtin /in/[email protected]+1 404 365 6805P
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