Excess of Loss Ratio Reinsurance

A form of reinsurance also known as “aggregate excess of loss reinsurance” under which a reinsurer, subject to a specified limit, is liable for all losses, regardless of size, that occur after a specified loss ratio or total dollar amount of losses has been reached. See Aggregate Excess of Loss Reinsurance, Stop Loss Reinsurance.

Excess of loss ratio reinsurance/stop loss reinsurance

An adaptation of an excess of loss reinsurance treaty. The loss ratio of the cedant is ‘stopped’ at an agreed percentage of the premium income with the balance wholly or partly falling to the reinsurer, e.g. 90 per cent of losses in excess of 80 per cent up to 120 per cent or a given monetary amount if occurring sooner. Aggregate excess of loss reinsurance works in the same way but its entry/exit points are monetary amounts not ratios.

Excess of Loss Reinsurance

Generic term describing Reinsurance which subject to a specified limit, indemnifies the Ceding Insurer for amounts of loss in excess of specified retentions. (ii) Reinsurance which indemnifies the Ceding Company for the portion of any loss resulting from a single occurrence, however defined, that exceeds a predetermined amount, which is known as a first loss retention or deductible.

Excess Per Risk Reinsurance

A form of excess of loss reinsurance which, subject to a specified limit, indemnifies the ceding company against the amount of loss in excess of a specified retention for each risk involved in each occurrence.
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UK: An excess of loss reinsurance which, subject to a specified limit, indemnifies the reinsured against the amount of loss in excess of a specified retention for each risk involved in each loss occurrence regardless of the number of risks. The amount of risk retained by the cedant be different may for each risk transferred. A risk may be defined as a building and its contents. This form of treaty often substitutes for proportional reinsurance or supplements it, thereby protecting the cedant against the effect of underestimating estimated maximum loss.