-10- employed by Tillinghast, prepared annual rate reviews and semiannual loss reserve reviews for petitioner. In preparing his reserve reviews, Hurley received information from petitioner about its paid losses and case reserves.8 Petitioner's claims investigators generally established petitioner's case reserves based on their initial impression of each claim and revised them as they acquired more information. The high end of Tillinghast's estimate of petitioner's ultimate losses in 1986 and the high end reestimates of its ultimate losses in later years were as follows: Tillinghast's High End Estimates Of Petitioner's Ultimate Net Losses & Allocated Loss Adjustment Expenses1 (in thousands) Year 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1986 $3,544 $2,481 $2,293 $2,186 $2,700 $2,700 $2,750 $2,875 $2,850 1987 -- 8,450 6,840 6,655 6,300 7,250 7,250 7,000 6,900 1988 -- -- 12,791 11,372 9,900 9,250 8,750 8,250 7,750 1989 -- -- -- 13,782 12,500 12,250 11,000 10,250 9,000 1990 -- -- -- -- 16,000 15,250 14,500 13,500 12,500 1991 -- -- -- -- -- 15,500 15,000 14,000 13,250 1992 -- -- -- -- -- -- 17,500 17,000 16,500 1993 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 15,000 15,000 1994 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 16,500 IBNR 665 1,476 1,777 1,361 1,625 1,034 3,284 4,657 Total 3,544 11,596 23,400 35,772 48,761 63,825 77,784 91,159 104,907 1 Allocated loss adjustment expense is defined above at par. I-E. Petitioner discounted the part of its reserves that related 8 Case reserves are estimates made by an insurer of the unpaid loss amounts expected to be paid in connection with specific known claims.Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Next
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