How to Use reinsurance in a Sentence

reinsurance

noun
  • For all the gloom, the 2017 losses were also proof of the resilience of the reinsurance industry.
    The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
  • If losses are less than $4 billion the reinsurance funds won’t even be touched.
    Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2018
  • The cost of that reinsurance has surged as climate change leads to more frequent and intense disasters around the world.
    New York Times, 17 July 2021
  • The program recently bought reinsurance for the first time.
    Christopher Flavelle, Bloomberg.com, 26 May 2017
  • The most recent use of reinsurance merely put a Band-Aid on a problem that requires a tourniquet.
    Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2019
  • The reinsurance industry has been caught up in storm after storm in recent years.
    Telis Demos, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2023
  • High-risk pools and reinsurance programs at the state level address this concern and have been successful in the past.
    Cathy McMorris Rodgers, The Denver Post, 5 May 2017
  • With a reinsurance program, rates could be reduced by as much as 30 percent.
    Andrea K. McDaniels, baltimoresun.com, 18 May 2018
  • Still, private flood insurance remains a tiny part of the market (though last year the NFIP did, for the first time, take out private reinsurance on some of its risks).
    The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
  • The Orca launch follows on the heels of a $10 million contract Climeworks inked last week with reinsurance giant Swiss Re.
    Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 7 Sep. 2021
  • In its first year, the reinsurance pool has performed even better than expected.
    Michael Olive, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2018
  • The effects of the mounting risks are being felt by a lesser known, but crucial link in the chain that connects to homeowners: the reinsurance market.
    Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 11 May 2024
  • If reinsurance is part of the agreement, the donor’s income tax deduction will be reduced by the premium amount.
    Kristen Jaarda, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The reinsurance fund would pay a percentage of the spending between those two bookends, ranging from 45% for customers on the Front Range to 85% for those living in the western half of the state.
    Meg Wingerter, The Denver Post, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Storms and the increasing cost of reinsurance, which insurers buy to pay out storm claims, have also driven up rates.
    Lawrence Mower, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
  • For the most part, the federal government has left it to states to craft their own reinsurance systems, but only seven states have done so.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
  • In Oregon, rates are about 7 percent lower thanks to reinsurance, the committee was told.
    Scott Bauer, The Seattle Times, 12 Feb. 2018
  • The increase is a turnaround from the previous six years of reinsurance rate decreases.
    Ron Hurtibise, Sun-Sentinel.com, 4 June 2018
  • Second, Congress should create a reinsurance program that funds a portion of high-cost claims.
    Josh Archambault, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The state has also introduced a reinsurance program to defray the cost of expensive claims.
    Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 20 Apr. 2024
  • Colorado is the ninth state to secure a federal waiver for a reinsurance program.
    Anna Staver, The Denver Post, 31 July 2019
  • In exchange for the right to impose that charge, the authority would essentially pay the state a premium and would not need to buy as much reinsurance.
    J.d. Morris, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Third, the proposal creates a new reinsurance program to pay insurers for the expense of people with high-cost claims.
    Brian Blase, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • This would essentially be a reinsurance plan similar to the temporary one the ACA had in its initial three years.
    Stephen Koff, cleveland.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Many of the newcomers ramp up use of reinsurance upon taking over an insurer, Best said.
    Leslie Scism, WSJ, 1 July 2021
  • Alaska, an expensive state for health care, received the OK last summer for reinsurance.
    Mark Daly, idahostatesman, 28 Mar. 2018
  • This bill extends the state’s reinsurance program for another five years and creates a new funding structure for it.
    Saja Hindi, The Denver Post, 18 June 2020
  • Another six states are taking steps to launch their own reinsurance programs.
    Michael Olive, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2018
  • This year, amid a spring and summer of extreme weather, hail — not hurricanes, floods or tornadoes — has caused the highest damage costs in the U.S., according to Gallagher Re, a global reinsurance firm that tracks such data.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2024
  • To spread that risk, insurance companies will together get reinsurance policies that help pay major claims.
    Alan Neuhauser, Axios, 6 Sep. 2024

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