Roundtable Discussion of Reinsurance Reserving

At this session, two senior reinsurance actuaries responsible for corporate loss reserving and a prominent consultant will outline issues of particular importance in establishing reinsurance reserves. This topics are: the inherent historical uncertainty in reinsurance loss reserves, asbestos and environmental liability, declaratory judgments, tail factors, workers compensation and loss reserve discounting, and ceded reinsurance reserving. The panelists will discuss each topic for 5-10 minutes, and then will open up the discussion. Audience participation is encouraged.