{"id":128,"date":"2020-05-31T13:32:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T08:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theactuarialclub.com\/learn\/?p=128"},"modified":"2025-04-30T11:27:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T05:57:44","slug":"actuarial-gi-reserving-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theactuarialclub.com\/learn\/actuarial-gi-reserving\/actuarial-gi-reserving-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Actuarial GI Reserving Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/theactuarialclub.com\/learn\/actuarial-reserving\/actuarial-gi-reserving-tutorial\/\">&lt; Previous<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/theactuarialclub.com\/learn\/actuarial-gi-reserving\/run-off-triangles\/\">Next &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d4edda\">Actuarial GI Reserving is standard practice in General Insurance companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below are the questions which you may have. As this is just an introduction to Reserving, we are not going to cover any concept but just questions that would be discussed in detail in the upcoming exercises. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"schema-faq wp-block-yoast-faq-block schema-faq-accordion\"><div class=\"schema-faq-section\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\">What is Actuarial Reserving in General Insurance?<\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">In General Insurance Industry, whenever a claim is reported, it takes sometime before the claim is fully paid (or runoff) by the insurer because of a number of reasons. <br\/><br\/>So it is very important for the company to keep the reserve of money in anticipation of such claims that will need to be paid in the future.<br\/><br\/>In Liability LOB, the delay could be in years.<\/p> <\/div> <div class=\"schema-faq-section\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\">What are the reasons that claims may be delayed?<\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">Few of them would be: <br\/>&#8211; delay in claim notification,\u00a0 <br\/>&#8211; delay in claim notification and payment due to bureaucratic \u00a0reasons, <br\/>&#8211; claim payment withheld until the final payment amount is decided by a loss assessor in a motor accident, <br\/>&#8211; small amounts and a large number of claims by individuals received at different times after a catastrophic event has happened in an area that has damaged the property or might be because the insured is suing the insurer in the court for the final settlement amount to be paid.<\/p> <\/div> <div class=\"schema-faq-section\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\">Why the actuarial reserves like IBNR, OS are created?<\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">An insurer may not know the exact figure for total claims in a year but it has to estimate that number with the highest level of accuracy possible.<br\/>The insurer must reserve a certain amount for the liabilities that are incurred but not reported as in the above events or for those which are reported but are yet to be paid.<\/p> <\/div> <div class=\"schema-faq-section\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\">What are the types of reserves in General Insurance?<br\/><\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">Incurred But Not Reported &#8211; IBNR<br\/>Incurred but not enough Reported &#8211; IBNER<br\/>Outstanding Reported Claims Reserves &#8211; OS Reserves<br\/>Catastrophe Reserves &#8211; Cat Reserves<br\/><br\/>We will learn more in the later chapters. <\/p> <\/div> <\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actuarial GI Reserving is standard practice in General Insurance companies. 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