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... workable, consider bringing in a person to maintain those relationships for you. That person is the perfect addition to your Strategic Advisory Board. Working together with your specialists in Mergers & Acquisitions, Agency Growth, and Legal/Tax Advice, your Carrier Relations expert will enhance your agency's overall performance and growth. BUILD YOUR AGENCY-CARRIER RELATIONSHIP The first step to building agency-carrier relationships is to review your agency's operating budget. Although this might seem obvious, all too many agencies neglect to carve out a piece of their budget to maintain carrier relationships. It's important to allocate a certain amount of commissions in your operating budget to maintain relationships with carriers. Next, select a member of your Strategic Advisory Board to represent the agency in fostering agency-carrier relationships. The candidate should have access to senior executives of insurers and reinsurers, as well as experience in dealing with executives at such major industry events as AAMGA, NAPLSO, and NAII meetings. Your expert will also need a solid understanding of the reinsurance marketplace. Carriers often tell agents that their agency contract is cancelled because the carrier has lost its reinsurance, and has to stop writing business. Your Insurance Company Strategic Advisor will need an in-depth understanding of how carriers structure their reinsurance and how reinsurance drives the underwriting cycle. Finally, look for someone who understands financial statements and insurer insolvency, as well as insurance company product development. Now that you have your expert in place, the real work can begin. Your Insurance Company Strategic Advisor will spend significant time on the road making contact and networking with the heads of the carriers you represent. This will solidify ...

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... Losses in this line should be reasonably predictable, and the firm should be reasonably able to accept risk. Internal management discipline and a willingness to commit the appropriate resources are also required. The losses should have these characteristics: Reasonably predictable Not extremely volatile Not exposed to a catastrophic loss High frequency and low severity "High frequency and low severity" means that the number of losses should be at least several dozen per year, of which most are less than $50,000. As a case in point, a large hotel would probably experience many small Workers Compensation claims but relatively few, if any, large claims. A bank can also expect to have numerous low severity Comp claims. Alternative risk financing usually involves loss severity — the exposure to large losses — by purchasing excess insurance or reinsurance. INSURANCE LINES The other question asked most often is "What lines of insurance are best for alternative risk financing?" Casualty lines — Workers Compensation, General Liability (including Products), and Auto Liability — are the best candidates for alternative risk financing. Workers Comp and Liability claims tend to be paid over long time frames, one to five years or more. Insurers of these lines generate substantial investment income on their reserves until losses are fully paid. Mid-size companies using alternative risk financing can earn the investment income on reserves that was formerly earned by an insurance company. ALTERNATIVE RISK FINANCING OPTIONS Insurers have developed many colorful titles for what amounts to a handful of alternative risk financing techniques. Methods range from guaranteed cost (for risk-averse firms) to self-insurance and captive insurance (for firms ...

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... The EDIFACT Working Group (EWG), in an effort to support new technologies, is building the infrastructure to develop object models as the next generation of standards. The Insurance SubWorking group is a pilot for this effort. For any business application to trade with another, they first have to be able to communicate with each other, irrespective of software product or technology platforms. The United Nations, in an alliance with the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), is also providing a forum for technology partners and business people to work for inter-operability of standards. The alliance is known as known as ebXML and will provide a structure that facilitates cross-industry communication. THE CHALLENGE The challenge to organizations like ACORD, e-Commerce Expert Group 7 (eEG7), and the Joint Venture for Reinsurance (JV) is to work together at a time when we are all trying to develop and migrate standards at internet speed. Our participants must realize that, as pioneers, they'll experience changes down the road as European and U.S. standards intersect and as life and property/casualty standards converge. THE INVITATION ACORD invites the global standards community to join us in examining how standards developers share information. ACORD is conducting an exciting project with eEG7 to unite our XML work, and a related effort to develop a global data model that encapsulates all of the industry's disparate models. Nigel Wooden, eEG7 technical administrator, notes, Unless the standards from these trading communities are harmonized, then the full potential of e-business cannot be realized, and implementation will remain fragmented. As most insurers and brokers trade ...