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With Facilitative Reinsurance, individual risks are offered by a ceding insurer for acceptance or rejection by the reinsurer. With Treaty Reinsurance, the reinsurer and ceding (or offering) insurer have agreed that a specified portion of the type or category of risk as specified in the reinsurance treaty will be ceded (or offered) by the insurer and accepted by the reinsurer. Fac covers an individual risk, treaty covers a group of risks.

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Simply put, treaty reinsurance covers a set of subject policies, for a specified period of time. An example of this would be "all homeowner policies". This is more obligatory because all the terms of the contract between the primary insurer and the reinsurer must be met. The primary insurer must cede the business and the reinsurer is obliged to assume the business (under the contract stipulations) This is more popular when a large number of homogeneous risks are being insured. On the otherhand, facultative insurance covers only one underlying insured, and is written one account at a time. The reinsurer retains the "faculty" or the ability to accept or reject a risk that is offered. Facultative is more commonly used on larger or unusual risks, for example an oil tanker. Also differently than treat, fac reinsurance is non obligatory, meaning the he primary insurer doesn't have to cede the business and the reinsurer is not obliged to accept the risk.

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