Q1 2023 Reinsurance Update
Catastrophe Reinsurance Programs
The catastrophe reinsurance program is part of our catastrophe management strategy, which is intended to provide our shareholders with an acceptable retuon the risks assumed in our personal lines business, reduce earnings variability, and provide protection to our customers. Our current catastrophe reinsurance program supports our risk tolerance framework which utilizes a modeled 1-in-100 annual aggregate limit for catastrophe losses from hurricanes, earthquakes and wildfires of
Allstate's catastrophe reinsurance program materially reduces our exposure to wind, earthquake, and wildfire losses. We employ a multi-year approach to placing reinsurance coverage to lessen the amount of reinsurance being placed in the market in any one year. Claim adjustment fees are indemnified as a percentage of ultimate net loss and are included within each contract's reinsurance limit.
The reinsurance agreements have been placed in the traditional reinsurance and
The total cost of our property catastrophe reinsurance programs, excluding reinstatement premiums, was
The following pages summarize our reinsurance program which includes:
- Nationwide Excess Catastrophe Reinsurance Program
- Florida Excess Catastrophe Reinsurance Program
- National General Lender Services Standalone Program
- National General Reciprocal Excess Catastrophe Reinsurance Contract
- Kentucky Earthquake Excess Catastrophe Reinsurance Contract
- Excess & Surplus Earthquake Contract
- Canada Catastrophe Excess of Loss Reinsurance Contract
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- A reinsurance program comprises one or more reinsurance agreements and a reinsurance agreement comprises one or more reinsurance contracts
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Nationwide Excess Catastrophe Reinsurance Program
The Nationwide Excess Catastrophe Reinsurance Program (the "Nationwide Program") provides coverage for events up to
Per Occurrence and Aggregate Excess Agreements
The Nationwide Program includes occurrence coverage in contracts from both the traditional reinsurance and ILS markets, while annual aggregate protection is included in five contracts supported by the ILS market. The agreements provide multi-line catastrophe coverage in every state except
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Core Traditional Reinsurance Market Multi-Year and Per Occurrence Excess Agreements
The Multi-Year and Per Occurrence Excess Agreements placed in the traditional reinsurance market in 2023 consist of five contracts providing coverage up to
Contracts providing coverage for events up to
- Reinsure personal lines property and automobile losses arising out of multiple perils including, but not limited to, hurricane, windstorm, hail, tornado, earthquake, fires following earthquakes and wildfires in all states, excluding personal lines property in the state of
Florida - Include coverage for commercial lines property and automobile (physical damage only) in all states, excluding commercial lines property in the state of
Florida - Contracts providing coverage for events up to
$4.25 billion each provide one-third of 95% of the total limit -
- Existing multi-year contracts
June 1, 2021 consist of four layers and expiresMay 31, 2024 . Contracts are structured with a retention of$500 million - Existing multi-year contracts effective
June 1, 2022 consist of four layers and expiresMay 31, 2025 . Contracts are structured with the first$250 million in excess of$500 million retained by Allstate - New contracts effective
June 1, 2023 consist of five layers and expireMay 31, 2026 -
- One annual contract provides
$250 million of placed limit in excess of a$750 million retention - Four multi-year contracts are structured with a retention of
$1.00 billion
- One annual contract provides
- Existing multi-year contracts
- One new annual contract provides
$500 million of placed limit in excess of a$4.25 billion retention, 95% placed - Includes one reinstatement of limits per year, with premium required
- Reinsurance premiums are subject to adjustment for exposure changes on an annual basis
Eight-Year Term Contracts
- Contain comparable contract terms and conditions as contracts providing coverage for events up to
$4.75 billion - Provide
$105 million of placed limits in excess of a minimum$4.75 billion retention and$131 million of placed limits in excess of a minimum$5.54 billion retention, and expireMarch 31, 2029 - Contain a variable reset option, which the ceding entities may elect to invoke at each anniversary, and which allows for the annual adjustment of each contract's attachment and exhaustion levels within specified limits
- Contain one reinstatement of limits over its eight-year term with premium required. Reinsurance premiums are subject to adjustment for exposure changes on an annual basis
Single-Year Per Occurrence Excess Agreements
- Contain comparable contract terms and conditions as contracts providing coverage for events up to
$4.75 billion - Contracts effective
April 1, 2023 provide a combined$375 million of placed limit and expireMarch 31, 2024 -
- One contract provides
$95 million of placed limit in excess of a$4.75 billion retention, with two limits available in any one contract year - One contract provides
$260 million of placed limit in excess of a$4.75 billion retention, with no reinstatement of limits -
- Contract provides additional gap coverage as the layer shifts down in attachment, subject to the
$4.75 billion minimum retention level as lower layer limits are exhausted - A retention co-participation of 5% for a layer of
$2.17 billion in excess of$4.75 billion is deemed in place and inures to the benefit of the contract
- Contract provides additional gap coverage as the layer shifts down in attachment, subject to the
- One contract provides
$20 million of placed limit in excess of a$6.82 billion retention, with no reinstatement of limits
- One contract provides
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Sanders Re Catastrophe Bonds Agreements
The Sanders Re Per Occurrence Excess Catastrophe Reinsurance Contracts
- Reinsures excess catastrophe losses caused by named storms, earthquakes and fire following earthquakes, severe weather, wildfires, and other naturally occurring or man-made events declared to be a catastrophe by Allstate
- Reinsure personal lines property and automobile excess catastrophe losses in 49 states and the
District of Columbia , excluding the state ofFlorida - Reinsure business located in the covered territory and arising out of covered events
- Contain a variable reset option, which the ceding entities may invoke for risk periods subsequent to the first risk period and which allows for the annual adjustment of the contract's attachment and exhaustion levels within specified limits
- Contracts do not include a reinstatement of limits
The Sanders Re Per Occurrence & Aggregate Excess Catastrophe Reinsurance Contracts and Sanders
Re Aggregate Excess Catastrophe Reinsurance Contract
- Contain comparable contract terms and conditions as the Sanders Re Per Occurrence Excess Catastrophe Reinsurance Contracts
- For each annual period beginning
April 1 , Allstate declared catastrophes occurring during such annual period can be aggregated to erode the aggregate retention and qualify for coverage under the aggregate limit - Reinsurance recoveries from the Nationwide Per Occurrence Excess Contract inure to the benefit of the annual aggregate layer
- Reinsurance recoveries collected under the per occurrence limit of each contract are not eligible for cession under the annual aggregate limit of that contract
- Reinsurance recoveries for all loss occurrences and annual aggregate losses qualifying for coverage during each contract's four-year risk period are limited to our ultimate net loss from covered events and subject to the contract's limit
2023-1 Excess Catastrophe Reinsurance Contract
- Placed with
Sanders Re III Ltd. which obtained funding from the ILS market to collateralize the contract's limit - Risk period began
April 1, 2023 , and terminates onMarch 31, 2027 - Consists of two tranches
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- Class A (Per Occurrence) provides a
$100 million limit in excess of a minimum$4.75 billion retention. While inuring layers are fully intact, the contract would begin to pay subject losses in excess of$4.96 billion - Class B (Aggregate) provides one limit of
$150 million of placed limit for catastrophe loss events in excess of a$50 million event deductible -
- Provides an annual aggregate limit of
$150 million between a$3.60 billion to$4.10 billion layer subject to an annual retention of$3.60 billion
- Provides an annual aggregate limit of
- Class A (Per Occurrence) provides a
2022-3 Excess Catastrophe Reinsurance Contract
- Placed with
Sanders Re III Ltd. which obtained funding from the ILS market to collateralize the contract's limit - Risk period began
December 1, 2022 , and terminates onMarch 31, 2027 - Provides a
$100 million per occurrence limit in excess of a minimum$4.75 billion retention. While inuring layers are fully intact, the contract would begin to pay subject losses in excess of$5.83 billion
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2022-1 Excess Catastrophe Reinsurance Contract
- Placed with
Sanders Re III Ltd. which obtained funding from the ILS market to collateralize the contract's limit - Risk period began
April 1, 2022 , and terminates onMarch 31, 2026 - Consists of three tranches
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- Class A (Per Occurrence) provides a
$200 million limit in excess of a minimum$4.75 billion retention. While inuring layers are fully intact, the contract would begin to pay subject losses in excess of$4.96 billion - Class B (Per Occurrence & Aggregate) provides one limit of
$175 million for catastrophe loss events in excess of a$50 million event deductible, during its four-year term which can be used on a per occurrence or an annual aggregate basis -
- For a qualifying loss occurrence, the contract provides
$175 million in reinsurance limits in excess of a minimum$4.75 billion retention. While inuring layers are fully intact, the contract would begin to pay subject losses in excess of$6.21 billion - Provides an annual aggregate limit of
$175 million between a$3.60 billion to$4.10 billion layer subject to an annual retention of$3.60 billion
- For a qualifying loss occurrence, the contract provides
- Class C (Aggregate) provides one limit of
$175 million of placed limit for catastrophe loss events in excess of a$50 million event deductible -
- Provides an annual aggregate limit of
$175 million between a$3.40 billion to$3.90 billion layer subject to an annual retention of$3.40 billion
- Provides an annual aggregate limit of
- Class A (Per Occurrence) provides a
2021-2 Excess Catastrophe Reinsurance Contracts
- Placed with
Sanders Re II Ltd. which obtained funding from the ILS market to collateralize the contract's limit - Risk period began
December 1, 2021 , and terminates onMarch 31, 2025 - Consist of two tranches
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- Class A (Per Occurrence) provides a
$250 million limit in excess of a minimum$4.75 billion retention. While inuring layers are fully intact, the contract would begin to pay subject losses in excess of$5.33 billion - Class B (Per Occurrence & Aggregate) provides one limit of
$150 million for catastrophe loss events in excess of a$50 million event deductible, during its four-year term which can be used on a per occurrence or an annual aggregate basis -
- For a qualifying loss occurrence, the contract provides
$150 million in reinsurance limits in excess of a minimum$4.75 billion retention. While inuring layers are fully intact, the contract would begin to pay subject losses in excess of$5.60 billion - Provides an annual aggregate limit of
$150 million between a$3.40 billion to$3.90 billion layer subject to an annual retention of$3.40 billion
- For a qualifying loss occurrence, the contract provides
- Class A (Per Occurrence) provides a
2021-1 Excess Catastrophe Reinsurance Contract
- Placed with
Sanders Re II Ltd. which obtained funding from the ILS market to collateralize the contract's limit - Risk period began
June 1, 2021 , and terminates onMarch 31, 2025 - Provides a
$250 million per occurrence limit in excess of a minimum$4.75 billion retention. While inuring layers are fully intact, the contract would begin to pay subject losses in excess of$4.96 billion
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