Description: Employer stop loss is an insurance coverage offered to employers who self-fund their employee benefits program pursuant to an ERISA plan document. From Reinsurance Section News, November 2007, Issue No. 61.

Description: This article addresses issues of importance to HMO excess reinsurance purchasers when negotiating a reinsurance treaty.

Description: Discussion of a Reinsurance Arbitration Survey covering the period 1998–2001 Also a discussion of the shrinking number of life reinsurance companies in the USA

Description: Each health plan is unique, and different factors must be considered when making a decision regarding reinsurance deductibles. This overview offers considerations when selecting a medical excess deductible for commercial, Medicare and Medicaid programs. It is more applicable for large payers, such as HMOs, rather than self-funded employers because there’s usually not enough claims data to warrant such analysis on any given employer group. From Reinsurance Section News, May 2005, Issue No. 55.

Description: An update on HMO market trends and reinsurance products, and services supporting them.

Description: Feature article focuses on the regulators who determine risk-based capital or RBC standards applicable to health plans.

Description: November 2015 Reinsurance News

Description: This article describes the common uses , reinsurance structures , advantages , and risk- based capital repercussions of utilizing a captive to accept health care risks .

Description: This article talks about ASOP No. 11, The Treatment of Reinsurance Transactions Reflecting Life or Health Insurance Risks in Financial Statements. Section 3.5, Additional Liabilities.

Description: In the last 10 to 15 years, new health insurance programs have proliferated in the Latin American and Caribbean regions. The reason for this boom has been, basically, the need for insurance companies to identify and implement new or additional lines of insurance business in order to match or exceed the increased numbers of competitors now working in these markets. This is combined with the stronger reinsurance capacity that these insurance companies had access to, which can be attributed to the need for increased reinsurance protection that arose a number of years ago, when many insurance and reinsurance companies were seeking larger volumes of businesses based on the expected growth potential of the region.