How to Use reinsurance in a Sentence

reinsurance

noun
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Second, Congress should create a reinsurance program that funds a portion of high-cost claims.
    Josh Archambault, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • Many of the newcomers ramp up use of reinsurance upon taking over an insurer, Best said.
    Leslie Scism, WSJ, 1 July 2021
  • 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
  • But our solution set is much broader than just reinsurance.
    Jeff Thomson, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Late last week, reinsurance giant Swiss Re released its mid-year insurance losses and the figures were the second-highest on record.
    BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Citizens took on a reinsurance role to help make sure claims get paid if insurers go insolvent.
    Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The reinsurance market, though large, tends to be volatile, with prices spiking quickly just when insurers are least prepared to handle the increases.
    Emily Flitter, New York Times, 14 July 2023
  • Colorado has made great strides in health care, expanding options and lowering costs through reinsurance and plans for a public option.
    Laura Packard, The Denver Post, 23 Dec. 2019
  • That’s why cat bonds have emerged as an alternative form of insurance where a larger pool of investors, not just a few reinsurance companies, can absorb some of the risk.
    Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Approvals take too long and don’t allow the plan to include the cost of reinsurance — which helps insurers absorb losses — or to factor in catastrophe risk models.
    John Woolfolk, The Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2024
  • The cost of reinsurance – policies that insurance companies need to carry to cover part of their risk – has also risen sharply in the state after 2020 saw the most Atlantic hurricanes on record.
    Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 25 May 2021
  • The first arrangement was a straight reinsurance policy.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 13 May 2022
  • One is its net cost of reinsurance, which is insurance that insurance companies buy that pays some of their claims after a big disaster.
    Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com, 8 Aug. 2020
  • The reinsurance program was approved by the federal government in July and lowered premiums on the state’s marketplace for the first time.
    Saja Hindi, The Denver Post, 30 Dec. 2019
  • So, the reinsurance program would be on top of the federal government’s covering 85 percent of the premium.
    Brian Blase, National Review, 12 Oct. 2021
  • As the costs for insurers to take out their own insurance (reinsurance) has skyrocketed, a number of smaller firms there have gone bankrupt.
    Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 30 May 2023
  • The insurance company lays off some of its risk to Berkshire Hathaway or another company, which agrees to pay part of its claims over a certain amount—reinsurance.
    Matt Schifrin, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • When more natural disasters such as hurricanes happen, the price of reinsurance goes up.
    Gray Rohrer, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Lawmakers ensured that the state's reinsurance program will continue through at least 2022.
    Stephen Montemayor, Star Tribune, 2 July 2021
  • The culprits: climate change, rising costs to rebuild or make repairs and a sharp increase in the premiums from reinsurance companies that are used by insurers to limit their risks.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 19 June 2023

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