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The assessment of liability risks requires comprehensive expertise in all industries. New risks and a continuously changing legal landscape pose new challenges for various professions. Our Casualty reinsurance solutions can reduce volatility in your book from an individual risk loss to a single occurrence with multiple risk losses.

We offer Treaty and Facultative reinsurance solutions for a broad range of Casualty portfolios and coverages including General Liability, Products Liability, and Personal Accident.

Class Actions in the Netherlands – (Not) A Role Model for Europe?
The Netherlands is the first and, so far, the only EU country that has implemented the EU Collective Redress Directive, aiming at strengthening consumer protection. We take a look at the new law and present early experiences with it.
Nina Dahm-Loraing, Alexander Eistert
Autonomous Vehicles, Drones, and Our Future – The Exciting and Occasionally Bumpy Road Ahead
As autonomous vehicles and drones continue their inexorable march forward, life as we know it will change. Read about the technological changes on the horizon.
Timothy Fletcher
Personal Injury Compensation in Europe: An Updated Comparison Among Different Systems Within the European Market
In this comparative study about Personal Injury Compensation, the five largest European insurance markets were analysed, taking into account all the possible inherent risks in such an undertaking and attempting to explain the differences between various systems of compensation.
Lorenzo Vismara, Francesca Nozzi, Richard C. Willoughby (London), Alix Pardo (Paris), Patrick Le Roy (Cologne), Martin Peiffer (Cologne), Federico Maroto (Madrid)
Public Nuisance – The Next Super Tort?
There is a lot of activity in the mass tort world right now: opioid trials, the Boy Scouts’ bankruptcy, the proliferation and perils of PFAS chemicals – and the utilization of public nuisance as a theory of liability for mass torts. Here’s a brief overview of public nuisance as a legal strategy.
Glenn Frankel
The Rise of Social Inflation and 4 Steps Insurers Can Take to Combat It
Originally published in the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC)’s IN Magazine, Winter 2021. Reprinted with permission. Insurance executives in 2016 were rightly concerned about the rise in verdicts of unprecedented magnitude and...
Timothy Fletcher

Underwriting

The changing risk landscape is getting more complex every day, creating new challenges for all businesses and branches.

At Gen Re we have a deep understanding of casualty matters. We are continuously monitoring recent developments all over the world and share them with our clients.

We support you with analysis and consulting services as well as seminars and publications. Gen Re’s publications are written by underwriters for underwriters, to provide you with current information on relevant exposures.

Our superior financial security and our underwriting expertise help you achieve your business goals.

Underwriting
Claims

Claims

Gen Re offers reinsurance claims support to clients underwriting third-party liability covers in the direct market across a wide variety of different lines of business, including Auto/Motor, General Liability, Professional Lines, and Cyber Risks.

We bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the table. We support clients in managing their Casualty class portfolios wherever we can, ensuring that claims presented under our Casualty contracts are adjusted and settled promptly and fairly.

Tools & Resources

Our experienced underwriters and proprietary software tools can provide you with a unique and valuable view of your business. Find out how a fresh look at your exposures can help you manage your book.

RET

Our reserve estimation (RET) tool helps to estimate complete, error-free as well as uniform and transparent individual reserves for severe personal injury claims.

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RET AR

Initial reserve estimation (RET AR) is a tool that helps to simplify / accelerate the calculation of an initial reserve in personal injury cases, while standardizing and providing technical support.

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UHS

Maintenance damages (UHS) calculates proposals for the support of the survivors of a person who has been killed.

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Consulting

Gen Re’s consulting unit for Germany, Austria and Switzerland works on actuarial issues in Property & Casualty insurance. Our focus is on standardized business (for private or small businesses).

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