REFERENCE: See: “Reinsurance, Cede.”
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REINSURANCE: The action of an insurer of reinsuring with another insurer or reinsurer the liability assumed through the issuance of one or more insurance policies by purchasing a contract that indemnifies the insurer within certain parameters for certain described losses under that policy or policies. This action is described as transferring the risk or a part of the risk from the insurer to the reinsurer. The insurer (the buyer) is called the cedent and the assuming company (the seller) is called the reinsurer.
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The transfer of all or part of a risk written by an insurer to a reinsurer.
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MEDICAL,USA: To buy reinsurance; to effect reinsurance.
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UK: to obtain reinsurance cover for insurance business, the company obtaining reinsurance is said to “cede” the business in question.
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UK: To purchase reinsurance.
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To transfer a risk exposure under a reinsurance contract.
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US: When a company reinsures its liability with another. The original or primary insurer, the insurance company that purchases reinsurance, is the “ceding company” that “cedes” business to the reinsurer.
Insurance Encyclopedia
Cede (Reinsurance)
The act of transferring insurance or reinsurance from an insurer to a reinsurer. Can also refer to buying reinsurance.
Ceded premiums
Premiums paid or payable by the captive to another insurer for reinsurance protection.
Cedent
See: ceding company.
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A ceding insurer or a reinsurer. A ceding insurer is an insurer that underwrites and issues an original, primary policy to an insured and contractually transfers (cedes) a portion of the risk to a reinsurer. A ceding reinsurer is a reinsurer that transfers (cedes) a portion of the underlying reinsurance to a retrocessionnaire.
Cedent (also known as Ceding Company, Reassured, Reinsured)
The issuer of an insurance contract that contractually obtains an indemnification for all or a designated portion of the risk from one or more reinsurers.
Ceding Commission
REINSURANCE: An amount deducted from the reinsurance premium to compensate a ceding company for its acquisition and other overhead costs, including premium taxes. It may also include a profit factor and is called a ceding allowance. See Overriding Commission and Sliding Scale Commission.
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REINSURANCE: The cedant’s acquisition costs and overhead expenses, taxes, licenses and fees, plus a fee representing a share of expected profits – sometimes expressed as a percentage of the gross reinsurance premium.
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The cedant’s acquisition costs and overhead expenses, taxes, licenses and fees, plus a fee representing a share of expected profits, which often is expressed as a percentage of the gross reinsurance premium.
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UK: The reinsurer’s payment to the reinsured as a reimbursement of all or part of the reinsured’s expenses on the original business, plus a contribution to overheads.
Ceding Company
REINSURANCE: (i) Insurance Company that places Reinsurance business of its original risk with a Reinsuring Company. (ii) An Insurer who purchases and is entitled to indemnification under a contract of Reinsurance (also known as the Reinsured).
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MEDICAL,USA: Insurance company that places reinsurance business of its original risk, all or part of those risks that it does not wish to retain in full, with a reinsuring company. Insurer that sells its policies directly to the public either through its own salaried employees or exclusive agents. Also called ceding insurer or referred to as cedent.
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Refer: “Reinsurance, Ceding Company”
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REINSURANCE: The company that transfers its risk to a reinsurer. See Cedent, Reassured, Reinsured.
Ceding company (Reinsurance)
The insurance company that transfers the insurance it has written to another insurance company.
Ceding insurer
See: ceding company.
Ceding office
See: Cedant.