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Technical Insurance Knowledge and Skills

Reinsurance - Introduction

Introduction

This one day interactive workshop provides a basic understanding of reinsurance for non-practitioners and provides an essential first step for anyone embarking on a course of study in greater depth.

Workshop Objectives

Delegates who successfully complete this workshop will be able to:

• demonstrate the difference between proportional and non-proportional reinsurance

• describe the characteristics of facultative and treaty methods of reinsurance

• describe the various types of reinsurance treaty contract

• describe the importance of information about the original risk to the underwriter

Workshop Content

• Definition of Reinsurance

• Types of Reinsurance

• Proportional
• Non-Proportional

• Methods of Reinsurance

• Facultative
• Quota Share
• Excess of Loss

• Treaty Reinsurance

• Quota Share
• Surplus
• Facultative Obligatory
• Excess of Loss (Contracts) – including Risk Excess, Catastrophe/Aggregate Excess and Stop Loss

• Accounting Concepts

• Underwriting Periods – Year of Account, Losses Occurring During and Policies Attaching
• Portfolio Transfers

• Reinsurance Programmes

• The Retention
• Relationship Between Types and Methods
• Allocation to Reinsurances by the Underwriter
• Apportionment of Losses

Duration: 1 day(s).

Call us now on +44 (0)1372 361 177 or email us for more information on this course.