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cowsandmilk a day ago

> How about profit caps?

What period do you put it over for property insurance? Profit caps work for health insurance because claims are typically not correlated. The percentage of your customers with cancer won’t 5x one year and go back to baseline the next. New drugs or treatments (or a drug going off patent) can cause correlated swings, but generally costs to health insurers don’t change a lot year to year.

For property insurance, you need to bring in profits most years to fund the year when there are multiple category V hurricanes or large fires.

mgiampapa a day ago | parent [-]

The book of business has to be large and the pockets deep. Which describes our current insurance market and the government. The way we handle this now is with reinsurance.