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Facultative reinsurance

An agreement between the ceding company (cedent) and the reinsurer under which the reinsurer is obliged to make a reinsurance payment when an insured event occurs under the insurance contract covered by the reinsurance, and the cedent undertakes to pay the reinsurer the reinsurance premium and to perform the other obligations provided for in that agreement.

Fear

Fear is an emotion arising in situations of threat to an individual's biological or social existence and directed at the source of real or imagined danger. Unlike pain and other forms of suffering caused by the actual action of factors dangerous to existence, fear arises in anticipation of them. Depending on the nature of the threat, the intensity and specific character of the experience of fear vary across a fairly wide range of shades (apprehension, dread, fright, terror). Functionally, fear serves to warn the individual of impending danger, helps to focus attention on its source and prompts the search for ways to avoid it. When fear reaches the strength of an affect (panic fear, terror), it can impose species-typical patterns of behavior (flight, freezing, defensive aggressive behavior). The fear reaction appears at the earliest stages of both phylogenesis and ontogenesis without any visible influence of learning. Initially it is triggered by genetically fixed unconditioned stimuli (for example, a sudden intense stimulus, pain, novelty), but because of the marked tendency of fear to leave traces (conditioning), which often occurs by the type of imprinting, the range of influences that provoke it can expand rapidly. In a person's social development, fear acts as one of the means of upbringing: for example, an instilled fear of moral or criminal condemnation is used as a factor in regulating behavior. Since in society an individual enjoys the protection of legal and other social institutions, a heightened tendency toward fear loses its adaptive significance and is traditionally assessed negatively. Established fear reactions are relatively stable and can persist even when their senselessness is understood. Therefore, cultivating resistance to fear is usually aimed not at ridding a person of it, but at developing the ability to keep self-control in its presence. Inadequate fear reactions are observed in various mental illnesses (for example, phobias).

Force majeure

Extraordinary and unavoidable circumstances, such as natural phenomena, military action, etc.

Fronting

The acceptance of risks into insurance or reinsurance with the aim of passing them on in full (100%) to other insurance or reinsurance companies, often at the latter's request and for an appropriate fee.

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