RISK POOLING
IBG - Insurance Business Group
Working for a better insurance industry
Risk pooling is the practice of sharing risks among a group of insurance companies. The IBG came to know of a new insurance pool having been set up in KSA by the name of Mahfazat Al Ta’amin Al Sina’i (the Pool). It’s a good example of public private partnership with the government working with the insurance industry to find coverage solutions.
Several thousand industrial SMEs financed in part by the Saudi Industrial Development Bank were finding it challenging to find insurance cover against fire and explosion. SAMA worked with Malath Cooperative Insurance Co. to form the Pool to share risk on a first loss basis. Malath underwrites on behalf of pool members and buys excess of loss coverage to full limits as required where available.
In this case, securing access to financial resources through insurance backed risk pooling allows many industrial SMEs in KSA to go back into operation quickly following a fire loss reducing the impact on business, people and their livelihoods.
Some risk may be too large for the insurance sector alone to take on which is why joint public and private sector initiatives to manage pools can bear more success as private sector insurance companies already carry a lot of data on aggregation, risk factors and losses with governments providing backstop guarantees.
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The Covid pandemic has added a sense of urgency to find insurance solutions for such events based on public private collaboration. There are over 450 backed government pools functioning worldwide covering the risks of drought, floods, earthquake, natural catastrophes, terrorism, environmental liability and multi-perils in addition to agricultural pools and, nuclear pools.
The IBG encourages the formation of pools within the UAE where there are identified market needs as they represent opportunities to build up local expertise and to grow and strengthen our industry.
Master of Business Administration - MBA ?? University of New England (AU)
2 年The main object of pooling is to stop relying on reinsurance for each and every cat insurable risks and be governed by claims control or cooperation clause which leads to extensive delay in settlement of admissible claims the pooling will allow excess of loss coverage . .its time for our markets to retain premiums and reasonable proportion of risk rather than continue to act as brokers for reinsurers .probably many of us have read that Lloyd's was ordered to pay 3million pounds interest because the D&O claim was not settled on time whilst in this region delayed settlement is a feature mostly because of some reinsurers
Master of Business Administration - MBA ?? University of New England (AU)
2 年This best mean of transferring knowledge and events that has been generated in UAE market .. Hope it reaches all members and non members