reinsure
Americanverb
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to insure again
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(of an insurer) to obtain partial or complete insurance coverage from another insurer for (a risk on which a policy has already been issued)
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Present
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reinsuresimple
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reinsuressimple
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have reinsuredperfect
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has reinsuredperfect
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am reinsuringprogressive
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are reinsuringprogressive
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is reinsuringprogressive
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have been reinsuringperfect progressive
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has been reinsuringperfect progressive
Past
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reinsuredsimple
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had reinsuredperfect
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was reinsuringprogressive
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were reinsuringprogressive
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had been reinsuringperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of reinsure
Example Sentences
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The Development Finance Corp. will reinsure the program, which aims to reopen the waterway, which is used to transport one-fifth of global oil.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
Apollo said regarding Athene: “Like Ajit Jain, we have been vocal about our decision in recent years not to reinsure run-off annuity books at prices that don’t make economic sense.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025
For example, rates to reinsure U.S. property catastrophe risk jumped 50% this year as climate change takes its toll.
From Reuters ● Jul. 19, 2023
Yet when the cost of medical catastrophes is more than ordinary Americans’ insurance coverage can sustain, the United States fails to reinsure their health plans.
From Slate ● May 15, 2023
The other, which is the usual way, is to pay some other company to assume the liability on all our outstanding policies—to reinsure us.
From White Ashes by Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson) Kennedy
The company reinsures both property and casualty and life and health insurance policies, and does business in more than 20 countries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
American Equity had $24 billion reinsured with Bermuda-based Freestone Re, also owned by Brookfield Wealth Solutions, as of the end of last year, filings show.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
“I reinsured my neck this week, and X-rays showed a change in the vertebra,” Bass said at the time.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2022
Reinsurers, which insure the insurers, are likely to face the bulk of any claims as "high-severity exposures are typically reinsured", Fitch said.
From Reuters ● Jul. 12, 2021
Putting obligations into a captive and saying they are reinsured is a little like putting dirty laundry into a closet and saying it’s being cleaned.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2015
The Salamander had reinsured, and the news of its fall was abroad on the streets of Boston as in New York, the insurance talk of all the towns.
From White Ashes by Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson) Kennedy
Last year, it set aside reserves of $15 billion to pay for the higher-than-expected cost of reinsuring long-term care policies in its finance arm, GE Capital.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2019
The newly disclosed trouble surfaced in one of those, a reinsurance unit, North American Life and Health, mainly because of the higher-than-expected cost of reinsuring long-term care policies sold by other insurers.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2018
The Hartford said that it had sold its life insurance business to Prudential, and was no longer in the business of writing new life policies and reinsuring them.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2013
Life insurers that are owned by their policyholders, called mutual companies, do not have that pressure, and some, like State Farm, Guardian and New York Life, appear not to be reinsuring through captives at all.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2013
In some states the reinsuring company becomes liable to an action by the beneficiary named in the original policy.
From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Albert Sidney Bolles
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