Description: 2004 SOA Annual Meeting and Exhibit, New York. This session addressed the consolidation in the industry and the associated impact on the relationship between the ceding company and its reinsurers.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session on international reinsurance covers the following topics: • Overview of the extent and form of international reinsurance activity. • Reporting, regulatory issues, remittance of payments, and currency exposure. • Accepting reinsurance of business issued in other countries from a US perspective. • Underwriting standards - US versus foreign countries. • Management of foreign risks from a US perspective.

Description: Discussion of the uses of reinsurance and the nature of the relationship between reinsurer and ceding company. The results of a reinsurance survey were discussed.