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Fire

Includes all policies normally classified as 'Fire' and includes:

• sprinkler leakage;
• subsidence;
• windstorm;
• hailstone;
• crop;
• arson; and
• loss of profits and any extraneous risk normally covered under fire policies, e.g. flood.

ISR

Standard policy wordings exist for this type of policy. All policies which contain such standard wordings or where the wording is substantially similar are to be classified as ISR.

(VI). Marine

Includes Marine Hull (including pleasure craft) and Marine Cargo (including sea and inland transit insurance).

(VII). Aviation

Aviation (including aircraft hull and aircraft liability).

(VIII). Mortgage

Insurance against losses arising from the failure of debtors to meet financial obligations to creditors or under which payment of debts is guaranteed. It includes lease guarantee.

(IX). Consumer Credit (CCI)

Insurance to protect a consumer's ability to meet the loan repayments on personal loans and credit card finance in the event of death or loss of income due to injury, illness or unemployment.

(X). Other Accident

Includes the following types of insurance:

• Miscellaneous accident (involving cash in transit, theft, loss of money);
• All risks (baggage, sporting equipment, guns);
• Engineering when not part of ISR or Fire policy;
• Plate glass when not part of packaged policy (e.g. houseowners /householders)
• Guarantee (Insurance Bonds);
• Live Stock;
• Pluvius; and
• Sickness and Accident (which provides stated benefits where the insured is killed or suffers loss of specific parts of the body or is prevented from carrying out the insured’s normal occupation. In addition, regular benefits may be paid over a short period of time (typically less than 3 years), noting that continuous disability policies are now considered to be Life Insurance Policies and should not be provided by general insurance companies).

(XI). Other

All other insurance business not specifically mentioned elsewhere. It includes, for example:

• All guarantees (e.g. fidelity Guarantee)
• Trade Credit;
• Extended Warranty (includes insurance by a third party for a period in excess of the manufacturer's or seller’s normal warranty);
• Kidnap and Ransom; and
• Contingency.

(XII). Compulsory Third Party Motor Vehicle (CTP)

This class consists only of CTP business.

(XIII). Public and Product Liability

• Public Liability covers legal liability to the public in respect of bodily injury or property damage arising out of the operation of the insured's business. Product Liability includes policies that provide for compensation for loss and or injury caused by, or as a result of, the use of goods and also environmental clean-up caused by pollution spills where not covered by Fire and ISR policies.
• Also will include builders warranty insurance.
• Includes public liability attaching to houseowners/householders policies.

(XIV). Professional Indemnity (PI)

Includes Directors' and Officers' liability insurance plus legal expense insurance. Cover for legal expenses is generally included in this type of policy.

(XV). Employers' Liability (EL)

Includes:

• Workers' compensation;
• Seamen's compensation; and
• Domestic workers compensation.

2. Reinsurance Business

The classes of business for companies that provide reinsurance are as follows:

Treaty Proportional: This refers to all forms of quota share and surplus reinsurance written on a treaty reinsurance arrangement where the reinsurer is bound to accept all business ceded by the reinsured subject to the terms and conditions of the pre-agreed treaty wording, and shares in the same proportion of premium and losses of the reinsured.

Treaty Excess of Loss: This refers to all reinsurance arrangements where the reinsurer is bound to accept all business ceded by the reinsured and the reinsurer pays losses only above an agreed predetermined limit (retention) up to an agreed maximum amount.

Facultative Proportional: This refers to non-treaty arrangements where each reinsurance contract is on an individual offer and acceptance basis and the reinsurer shares in the same proportion of premium and losses of the reinsured.

Facultative Excess of Loss: This refers to non-treaty arrangements where each reinsurance contract is on an individual offer and acceptance basis. The reinsurer pays losses only above an agreed predetermined limit (retention) up to an agreed maximum amount.

Reinsurance non-split

This line item classification disclosed under Reinsurance class of business is to be used where it is not possible for the insurer to separately slit out all the classes of reinsurance businesses. However as required by GPS 110 Capital Adequacy, where an insurer writes inwards reinsurance business and is unable to split this business into the classes and types listed, they are to use the highest casualty factors on their outstanding claims liabilities.

Where an insurer writes inwards reinsurance which spans multiple classes and the insurer cannot readily split the contract between classes, APRA suggests that the contract should be allocated using one of the following methods:

(a) allocate the contract to the category which represents the greatest exposure; or

(b) allocate the contract to the category representing the greatest premium income.

An insurer that writes inwards reinsurance is free to choose which of the above methods it uses, or may use another appropriate method, provided the same method is used for all contracts and all subsequent periods.