Friday, December 5, 2008

Reinsurance

Reinsurance is taken by an insurance company to protect itself from any risk of loss that it might incur from other insurance companies offering similar products and services. Re-insures offer insurance to insurance companies just as insurance companies provide insurance cover to policy holders. There are many reasons as to why such insurance is needed by an insurance company. They help in risk transfer, result predictions, managing cost of capital and and on.