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What is Reinsurance Basics

In simple terms, Reinsurance is insurance of insurance. The extent to which an insurance company can retain the risks it assumes is limited by its paid up capital and net worth, besides other factors. So insurance companies have a certain maximum net risk retention beyond which they buy reinsurance, for the risks they have accepted.
There are various arrangements for reinsurance between the insurers and the reinsurers.