Description: A collection of brief and generally unrelated provisions that are commonly found in a reinsurance agreement. Part of a series of monographs published under the heading of Life Treaty Provisions.

Description: This article presents the author's views on how direct writers of term insurance should view and monitor their reinsurance.

Description: Munich American’s annual survey, which is conducted on behalf of the Statistical Research Committee of the Reinsurance Section, covers Canadian and U.S. ordinary and group life reinsurance new business production and in force. The ordinary numbers are further subdivided into: recurring reinsurance1—conventional reinsurance covering an insurance policy with an issue date in the year in which it was reinsured portfolio reinsurance—reinsurance covering an insurance policy with an issue date in a year prior to the year in which it was reinsured, or financial reinsurance, and retrocession reinsurance—reinsurance not directly written by the ceding company. Complete survey results are available from the authors upon request. These results may also be obtained at Munich American’s Web site at www.marclife.com search Research.

Description: This article discusses the emerging issue of the ability of reinsurers to raise premium rates under yearly renewable term YRT life reinsurance contracts and the propriety of such rate increases. From Reinsurance Section News, May 2005, Issue No. 55.

Description: Munich American’s annual survey, which is conducted on behalf of the Society of Actuaries Reinsurance Section, covers Canadian and U.S. ordinary and group life reinsurance new business production and in force.

Description: An executive perspective on strategy and risk in reinsurance.

Description: This article discusses the causes of total coverage on a life exceeding the jumbo limit found in automatic reinsurance treaties. Steps being considered and taken to address this problem are also discussed.

Description: This article explores the current market dynamics in the U.K. life reinsurance market and considers the sustainability of the current position.

Description: View the complete issue for the August 2014 Reinsurance News newsletter.

Description: Presents the results from the 2013 SOA Life Reinsurance Survey - an annual survey capturing individual and group life data from US and Canadian life reinsurers. New business production and in force figures are reported.