Reinsurance treaties can either be written on a "continuous" or "term" basis.

The insurance department said the company had improperly accounted for those transactions, known as reinsurance treaties.

The Reinsurance Treaty was not a good enough substitute, and Bismarck knew it.

In setting up a financial reinsurance treaty, the reinsurer will provide capital (there are a number of ways of doing this, discussed below).

June 18 - The Reinsurance Treaty is closed between Germany and Russia.

For example, the Kaiser refused to renew the Reinsurance Treaty with Russia in 1890.

In this area, TI may have the edge inasmuch as its reinsurance treaties have been in place for much longer.

A Reinsurance treaty under which all claims occurring during the period of the contract, irrespective of when the underlying policies incepted, are covered.

The secret Reinsurance Treaty with Russia was allowed to expire in 1890, despite Russian requests to renew it.

The treaty potentially conflicted with the Reinsurance Treaty of 1888, between Germany and Russia.

In the secret protocol to the Reinsurance Treaty Bismarck lent support to Russia's expansion efforts.

Its successor was another dual arrangement, the Reinsurance Treaty between Russia and Germany (18 June 1887).

Facultative reinsurance is commonly used for large or unusual risks that do not fit within standard reinsurance treaties due to their exclusions.

Thus the Mediterranean Agreement, while not a de jure contradiction of the Reinsurance Treaty was at least contrary to its spirit.

Reinsurers and reinsurance brokers use cat modeling in the pricing and structuring of reinsurance treaties.

In a separate matter, Milbank obtained full rescission of a reinsurance treaty for several major reinsurers in a fraud dispute against worker's compensation insurers.

This market remained fairly small (though influential in price setting for reinsurance as these contracts are more consistent than most reinsurance treaties) through Hurricane Katrina.

In Germany, it was compared with Bismarck's famous "Reinsurance Treaty" with Russia in 1887.

Despite the Reinsurance Treaty, the Russian leadership was alarmed at the country's diplomatic isolation and entered the Franco-Russian Alliance in 1894.

In addition, Milbank obtained an order to consolidate 46 reinsurance disputes involving 21 reinsurance treaties - Milbank also prevailed on the merits of the case.

Both TI and NCM have comparatively low capitalisations but, with their reinsurance treaties, their financial resources are sufficient for their current underwriting obligations.

Bismarck therefore negotiated the Reinsurance Treaty of 1887 with Russia, in order to prevent the Bismarckian Nightmare of a Franco-Russian Encirclement.

Wilhelm II and his advisers committed a fatal diplomatic error when they allowed the "Reinsurance Treaty" that Bismarck had negotiated with Tsarist Russia to lapse.

Bismarck's maxim "Keep friends with Russia" and the Reinsurance Treaty that implemented it, William had dropped, along with Bismarck, in the first, and worst, blunder of his reign.

However, the Reinsurance Treaty failed to be renewed by Wilhelm II in 1890 after Bismarck's departure from office, thus creating a critical problem for Germany in the event of a war.