Dutil.FA Flashcards
What is the goal of FA?
To ensure auto insurance availability for all owners & licensed drivers unable to obtain coverage through the voluntary market.
FA was created by…?
The insurance industry.
FA is an ________ of all auto insurers.
unincorporated non-profit
What are the 3 types of risk-sharing mechanisms administered by FA?
- Facility Association Residual Market (FARM)
- Risk-Sharing Pools (RSPs)
- Uninsured Automobile Fund (UAF)
Describe the key purpose of FARM?
Provide auto insurance to drivers who can’t find it in the voluntary market.
It is an insurer of last resort, ensuring that compulsory insurance can be sold to risks that no insurer will write.
Describe the key purpose of RSPs.
Allow insured to cede risks on their own books for which they consider premiums to be inadequate.
Allows insurer to write a riskier set of insureds and pool the costs to limit their losses.
Enhance market stability.
Compare RSP and FARM with respect to Rates & Rules.
RSP: Rates are insurer’s own standard manual rates and rules.
FARM: uses FA rates and rules.
Compare RSP and FARM with respect to servicing carriers.
RSP: serviced by the ceding company (member)
FARM: policies/claims administered by servicing companies.
Compare RSP and FARM with respect to policyholder awareness.
RSP: policyholder is not aware of assignment.
FARM: policyholders know they are a FARM risk.
Compare RSP and FARM with respect to treatment of losses in ON PPA filing.
RSP: Included in loss analysis
FARM: Excluded in loss analysis
Identify the 5 minimum requirements that a risk must meet in order to be eligible for transfer to one of the FA RSPs.
- Must be PPA
- Must not be eligible for FARM
- Must have statutory TPL limit
- Must use approved rates
- Must follow insurer’s classification and rating procedures.
True of False?
Provinces with a crown corporation insurer (BC, SK, MB, QC) are not eligible for FARM or RSPs.
True
What is the key purpose of UAF?
Provide compensation in cases of no insurance or inadequate insurance.
True or False?
ON is a province where FA administers the uninsured motorist fund.
False
What are the 4 functions of FA’s board of directors?
- Approve rate changes & filings
- Authorize expenses
- Establish standards of servicing carriers & RSP users
- Appoint committees and sub-committees
What are the 5 classes of business for determining a member’s participation ratio?
- PPA non-fleet, non-pool business
- PPA not in (1) or in any RSP
- Business ceded to the pool in AB, NB, NS
- Business ceded to the pool in Ontario other cat fund
- Vehicles in a catastrophic claim or uninsured motorist pool
Compare RSP and FARM with respect to limit of risk.
RSP: there can be a limit of risk you can transfer to the RSP
FARM: No limit of risk
Compare FARM and RSP with respect to type of risk.
RSP: PPV only
FA: Any vehicle that is not PPV and PPVs declined by other insurers for specific reasons.
Compare RSP and FARM with respect to admission.
RSP: Use U/W rules of ceding company
FARM: Only if agent/broker can’t place risk with voluntary company
What does the ON 5% transfer limit prevent for?
(5% of voluntary, PPA, non-fleet written exposures)
Prevents insurers from simply ceding all new businesses to the pool then cherry-picking the profitable renewal business in the following year.
Describe how the financial results of a particular pool are shared among companies.
They are shared based on a participation ratio that is based on the voluntary PPA non-fleet, non-pool direct exposures.
Describe how the pool operates with respect to actual transfer of premium from a member company to the pool.
Member transfers the premium excl. fees like commissions/agents and are subject to a limit depending on the province.
The premium ceded must be the approved one.
Describe how the pool operates with respect to P reimbursement from the pool to a member company.
The premium returned is based on the participation ratio calculated, and in addition, the pool reimburses an expense fee for the cost of writing and handling the policy.
How does a company use RSP to lower its total loss ratio?
Company should cede as many unprofitable risks as possible.
This will reduce their participation ratio, increase the expense allowance received from the pool and reduce its non-ceded risk loss ratio.
