REINSURANCE: An actuarial estimate of amounts required to pay ultimate net losses that refers to losses that have occurred but have not yet been fully and finally settled/paid . IBNR has two components: (1) a provision for loss and loss adjustment expense (“LAE”) reserves in excess of the current reserves on individual claims that have been reported during the accounting period but which have not yet been paid in full, reflecting the potential increase in the value of these claim values when they are ultimately paid (IBNER – see below); (2) a provision for loss and LAE reserves on claims that have occurred but have not yet been reported during the accounting period (IBNYR – see below).
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UK: At the end of an accounting period, the insurer creates a reserve to cover the estimated cost of losses that have occurred but have not yet been reported. The ‘INBR’ reserve is quite significant in liability insurance as many claims have a ‘long tail’. The regulatory authority prescribes the form in which INBR claims must be included in the FSA returns.
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MEDICAL,USA: Cash reserve established by an insurance company or managed care plan to pay for medical services that have been provided to members but for which claims have not yet been received by the payer. These cash reserves are created by using an estimate based on prior insurance claims submissions. Also called unreported claims .
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MEDICAL,USA: Dollar amount the insured payer’s plan builds up to anticipate unknown medical expenses.
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REINSURANCE: The liability for future payments on losses which have already occurred but have not yet been reported in the reinsurer’s records. This definitely may be extended to include expected future development on claims already reported. Thus, technically IBNR covers the field from (a) those individual losses that have occurred but have not been reported to the insurer or reinsurer to (b) that amount of loss that may arise from a known loss which has been reported as an event but which has not been recorded in full to its ultimate loss value (known as loss development).
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An estimate of the liability for claim-generating events that have taken place but have not yet been reported to the insurer or self-insurer. The sum of IBNR losses plus incurred losses provides an estimate of the total eventual liabilities for losses during a given period.
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Estimated losses which an insurer or reinsurer, based on its knowledge or experience of underwriting similar contracts, believes have arisen or will arise under one or more contracts of insurance or reinsurance, but which have not been notified to an insurer or reinsurer at the time of their estimation.
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Incurred but Not Reported (IBNR) loss
Loss which has not yet been reported as of a specified date.
Incurred but Not Reported (INR) claims
Claims which have been incurred but not yet been reported to the Insurer. For instance, insurance company statements prepared after the end of the accounting year would have to include an estimate of losses that occurred during that accounting year but have not yet been reported.
Incurred but not reported losses / IBNR
Losses that are not reported to the insurer or reinsurer until years after the policy is sold. Liability claims may be filed long after the event that caused the injury to occur. The exposure to the chemical that causes cancer may have occurred in 2005, but the injured employee did not report cancer until it manifested itself years later. Asbestos-related diseases, for example, do not show up until decades after the exposure. Also, estimates made about claims already reported but where the full extent of the injury or property damage is not yet known. Insurance companies regularly adjust reserves for such losses as new information becomes available.
Incurred But Not Yet Reported (IBNYR)
is a provision for loss reserves and LAE on losses and claims that have occurred but have not been made known to the insurer.
Incurred but unpaid claims
Reported and unreported insurance claims that have not been paid for a specific date.
Incurred claim reserve
Estimate of insurance claims that actually are incurred in a policy year plus the change of the claim reserves as of the end of the year. The change in reserves stands for the difference between the end-of-the-year and beginning-of-the-year claim reserves.
Incurred claims
Total dollar amount of insurance claims within a specific period of time regardless of when those claims are reimbursed.
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Incurred claims equal the claims paid during the policy year plus the claim reserves as of the end of the policy year, minus the corresponding reserves as of the beginning of the policy year. The difference between the year end and beginning of the year claim reserves is called the increase in reserves and may be added directly to the paid claims to produce the incurred claims. Typically, incurred claim values include some expenses of paying claims such as those allocated to individual claims.
Incurred claims loss ratio
Proportion of the claims incurred to the premiums earned to establish the loss. This ratio is based on a formula by taking incurred claims added to expenses and divided by premiums.
Incurred claims or losses
The total of paid and outstanding claims arising in a period. The term is also used, for the purpose of claims statistics, where, for given accident or policy years, the incurred claims are compared to earned premiums in order to assess the underwriting profitability for each class of business.