Risk Integration, Aggregation & Correlation: Domino Effects Chet Szczepanski Chief Actuary Pennsylvania Insurance Department
Pennsylvania Experience PIC Reliance PHICO Legion SWIF Special Funds Medical Malpractice
Pennsylvania Experience PIC: Medical malpractice writer Discounted reserves Reserve deficiencies Downgraded Doctor’s did not care Speed Up in Court Decision RBC caught them!
Pennsylvania Experience Reliance Multi-line writer Business is rating sensitive Heavily leveraged by reinsurance Heavily leveraged by holding company debt
Pennsylvania Experience Reliance (continued) Unicover Reserve deficiencies Downgraded Liquidity, liquidity, liquidity
Pennsylvania Experience PHICO Medical malpractice writer Rapid expansion into new markets Reserve deficiencies Downgraded Doctors did not care Liquidity not a problem
Pennsylvania Experience Legion Multi-line writer Business is rating sensitive Heavily leveraged by reinsurance Downgraded Reserves? Liquidity, liquidity, liquidity
Pennsylvania Experience Common Themes: Reserve deficiencies Ratings downgrades Reinsurance Liquidity
Pennsylvania Experience SWIF Consistently a leading writer of WC in PA Often the leading writer Market share has varied from 5% to 15% (currently about 13%) Dramatic premium growth to almost $500 Million in 1994 then precipitous drop but now on the rise
Pennsylvania Experience SWIF
Pennsylvania Experience Medical Malpractice
Pricing implication when expected yields drop from 7% to 4%?
P&C Industry Asset Distribution for 2001
P&C Industry Invested Asset Distribution for 2001
Reinsurance Leverage
Add rating sensitive business Mix in a downgrade $1,000,000,000 or more in Statutory Deposits $500,000,000 in one Stock Liquidity?
Reinsurance Leverage
Equity Leverage
Conclusions? Risk elements always exist Some are naturally occurring Some are artificially created Interactions can lead to disastrous results
Insight? Risk elements must be identified and managed!