This blog post addresses the issues of capital adequacy and surplus policy for specialized risk bearing entities (RBE). These can include captive insurance companies, public entity pools, and qualified self insurance plans. The term Surplus is not common among all RBEs. The excess of assets over liabilities is sometimes called Member Equity. The terms Fund […]

Decisions about risk financing are often made using one assumption about the retained losses, or at best, using a range of claims.  Claims costs for future periods are a forecast that will vary to some degree. The amount of that variation is measured by estimating the confidence interval based on the probability distribution calculated from […]