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Notes from the ceded desk

Use cases across the ceded reinsurance lifecycle, how an agent-driven workbench decides what it decides, and what it does not do.

Use cases across the ceded lifecycle

Fourteen situations the ceded desk knows by heart — from a slip on Monday to a cat loss on Friday to the period close at month end — and what an agent prepares for each one before a person decides.

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One hurricane, six answers

A cat loss arrives from claims. By the time the panel pays, it has been told, billed, reinstated, stated and chased — and every step a person took was an answer to something already prepared.

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The slip, read field by field

A bound slip becomes a treaty proposal with its layers and panel, every field citing the passage it came from — or left blank and named as missing.

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The panel should hear it from you

When a claim crosses the treaty’s reporting threshold the notice is drafted and held. A reinsurer with no contact on file gets no guessed addressee.

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Cash calls without waiting for the statement

A paid loss above the cash-call threshold should not wait for the quarterly account. Each reinsurer’s share, drafted and held for release.

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Reinstatement premium, once and pro rata

Eroding a layer costs money. The engine raises the premium pro rata from the loss date, only while a reinstatement remains; the agent drafts the notice.

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The layer that ran out between storms

A layer close to running out, what has already fallen back to the carrier, and the scenarios sized from the layer’s own limit — before the CRO hears it elsewhere.

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Closing the period, and keeping it closed

Strike the bordereaux, send the statements, and refuse to close a period that still has drafts. Late cessions roll to the next open period, not into a closed one.

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Chasing recoverables without writing the email

Recoverables aged by reinsurer, a chaser drafted with its evidence and its tone, escalation proposed — and nobody writing the email from scratch.

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When their statement disagrees with ours

The reinsurer’s statement says one thing and the ledger another. Matching within tolerance, proposed offsets, and what stays a person’s call.

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The reinsurer you rely on too much

Thirty per cent of the panel balance with one reinsurer against a twenty-five per cent limit. Ratings, concentration and news, turned into a credit proposal.

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The ledger’s half of Schedule F

Schedule F drafted from cessions and panel shares in the ledger — and an honest list of what is missing, from collateral to NAIC identifiers.

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The renewal pack before the broker asks

Experience by year, reinstatement premium paid, the panel and its ratings — assembled before the broker asks, and clear about what Cede never receives.

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Finding the gaps in the programme

A treaty with no panel, a panel that adds up to 95%, cover that overlaps, a treaty expired but still active, a line nobody protects. Found, and a fix proposed.

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When a claim event does not fit

A claim event that matches no contract, a cession that looks wrong, a transaction refused at the door. What the agents explain and what a person decides.

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