PROPERTY CATASTROPHE REINSURANCE
Our property catastrophe
reinsurance business reinsures catastrophic perils for ceding companies
on a treaty basis. Our property catastrophe reinsurance contracts
provide protection for most catastrophic losses that are covered
in the underlying insurance policies written by our ceding company
clients. The principal perils in our portfolio include hurricane
and windstorm, earthquake, flood, tornado, hail and fire. Coverage
for other perils may be negotiated on a case-by-case basis. This
business is comprised of reinsurance contracts that incur losses
only when events occur that impact more than one risk or insured.
Protection under property catastrophe treaties is provided on an
occurrence basis, allowing our ceding company clients to combine
losses that have been incurred in any single event from multiple
underlying policies. The multiple claimant nature of property catastrophe
reinsurance requires careful monitoring and control of cumulative
aggregate exposure.
Preferred data format
for modeling purposes.
 WORKERS COMPENSATION, PERSONAL ACCIDENT AND LIFE REINSURANCE
This business is almost exclusively focused on exposures in the
United
States and is virtually all written on an excess of loss basis.
We focus on business that is exposed to severity losses and not
expected
to produce high levels of claims frequency. This business is written
only at levels that would require multiple deaths or injuries to
result in a loss. The treaties include limitations on the maximum
amount of coverage for any one person and our attachment points
are multiples of these stipulated maximum coverage limits. There
is a
potential for events that trigger property catastrophe claims,
such as catastrophic earthquakes, also to result in injuries and
deaths.
We closely monitor the potential for accumulation within our businesses.
Preferred data format for modeling
purposes.
 PROPERTY PRO RATA TREATY REINSURANCE
Property pro rata treaty
reinsurance is treaty insurance that covers a cedant’s aggregate losses
from all events rather than losses from particular risks. Most
of our pro rata treaty reinsurance contracts have occurrence limits.
Property pro rata treaty reinsurance may contain significant risk
of accumulation of exposures, both to natural and other perils.
Our
underwriting process explicitly recognizes these exposures. Natural
perils, such as hurricane and windstorm, earthquake and flood,
are analyzed through our catastrophe modeling systems. Other perils,
such as fire and terrorism events, are considered based on historic
loss and loss expense ratios experienced by cedants and monitored
for cumulative aggregate exposure.
 PROPERTY PER RISK TREATY REINSURANCE
Our property
per risk treaty reinsurance business reinsures a portfolio of particular
property
risks of ceding companies on a treaty basis. For example, we could
provide reinsurance to cover a cedent’s losses for damage
to commercial property under individual policies. This business
is comprised
of a highly diversified portfolio of reinsurance contracts covering
claims from individual insurance policies issued by our ceding
company clients and including both personal lines and commercial
property
risks (principally covering buildings, structures, equipment and
contents). Loss exposure in this business includes the perils of
fire, explosion, collapse, riot, vandalism, hurricane and windstorm,
tornado, flood and earthquake. This business is written on an excess
of loss basis. Our property per risk treaty reinsurance agreements
generally have occurrence limits. |