Not exact matches
Without risk transfer, regardless of what the technical accounting regulations might say, there should be no reserve relief granted, regardless of the amount of money given to the cedant by the
reinsurer; that money should be treated as a loan, because it will have to be
paid back with interest.
When disasters are occurring, it may
pay to wait until the season is near its end to buy
reinsurers.
As a result, borrowers putting small amounts of money down ended up
paying more for their mortgage insurance because of the pseudo-commission
paid to the mortgage lender because of the captive
reinsurer.
Most
reinsurers are resisting posting collateral, but so long as reinsurance receivables don't get
paid rapidly, and credit quality is low, the demand for collateral can only grow.
A few notes: 1) The higher the reinsurance reserve credit is relative to surplus, the greater the risk if the
reinsurers can't or won't
pay.
Whether internally or externally reinsured, the size of reinsurance credits relative to surplus raise solvency risk issues if
reinsurers can't or won't
pay.
Reinsurance does carry a risk, though, if the
reinsurer can't or won't
pay.
There is some credit risk there... how much do you rely on your
reinsurers to
pay claims in full?
The Bermuda
reinsurers know that one day a change in their tax status may come (somehow forced to
pay US tax rates — ask Bill Berkley), and that would lower earnings.
[1] Reinsurance is an arrangement in which the
reinsurer, agrees to take on risks another insurance company, the «ceding company,» for a percentage of the premiums
paid on the original policy (for specifics, see Reinsurance).
If
reinsurers were playing the game that you claim the insurance companies are playing, namely, inflating the perceived risks in order to increase their profits, then any insurance company that saw through this game would stand to benefit by not
paying the inflated prices.
Experts at the symposium said natural disasters would become more manageable financially for everyone if Congress would pass legislation that authorized the federal government to backstop insurers in a catastrophe, allow insurers and
reinsurers to set aside large capital reserves tax - free to
pay for catastrophes, and let households maintain tax - exempt disaster recovery accounts to help
pay for rebuilding that's not covered by their insurance.
Home mortgage borrowers allege that bank, mortgage servicer, and
reinsurer created a captive reinsurance scheme whereby they selected mortgage insurers for their customers, and the insurers then
paid kickbacks to the Defendants for non-existent reinsurance services in violation of RESPA.
HUD's investigations have uncovered strong evidence that such arrangements attempt to disguise the fact that the referral fee
paid by the primary title company to the
reinsurer is being funneled to the brokerage's title company.