Contributions to the Theory of the Largest Claim Cover

In the wake of the technical development of our era we are increasingly faced with claims of extremely large amounts. Whereas even in the past century large claims were mostly due to elemental or natural forces such as earthquakes, hurricanes and floods, there are today other causes, conditioned by human factors, that have considerably increased in importance. Another fact to be observed is that the risks that are passed on to the insurance market assume a more serious character year by year. Large building complexes, giant tankers, containers, atomic power stations, dams and jumbo jets pose for the insurers problems which are in no way easy to solve, since the risk covers required touch the limits of market capacity and their rating is subject to great uncertainties. At the same time, the readiness to underwrite such covers is a matter of utmost importance for the private insurance industry.