Item 1.01
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Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
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Federated National Insurance Company (“Federated National”) and Monarch National Insurance Company (“Monarch National”), subsidiaries of Federated National Holding Company (the “Company”), have each entered into a Reimbursement Contract (the “Contracts”), with The State Board of Administration of Florida (“SBA”) for the 2018-2019 hurricane season. The SBA is the agency that administers the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund (“FHCF”).
The Contracts will reimburse Federated National and Monarch National for covered property losses under their respective homeowners’ insurance policies resulting from hurricanes that cause damage in the State of Florida, from June 1, 2018 through May 31, 2019.
Under the Contract for Federated National, the FHCF will provide approximately $700.5 million (75% of $934.0 million) of aggregate seasonal coverage for covered losses in excess of approximately $297.0 million, reflecting a 25% participation by Federated National. Federated National’s premium for the FHCF reinsurance coverage will be approximately $46.5 million.
Under the Contract for Monarch National, the FHCF will provide approximately $24.3 million (75% of $32.4 million) of aggregate seasonal covered losses in excess of approximately $10.3 million, reflecting a 25% participation by Monarch National. Monarch National’s premium for the FHCF reinsurance coverage will be approximately $1.6 million.
The Contracts are payable in three premium installments due August 1, 2018, October 1, 2018, and December 1, 2018. The actual attachment points, total coverages and costs
may vary as Federated National and Monarch National continue to write new and renewal business and
will not be finalized until December 31, 2018.
As is common practice within the insurance industry, a portion of the risks insured under policies are transferred to other companies through the purchase of reinsurance. The
Company routinely purchases reinsurance through excess of loss type treaties from both the FHCF and multiple private reinsurance carriers. Federated National’s existing catastrophe reinsurance treaties with private reinsurance carriers from 2016 and 2017 are in effect through June 30, 2018 and certain treaties remain in effect until June 30, 2019. Monarch National’s existing catastrophe reinsurance treaties with private reinsurance carriers from 2017 are in effect through June 30, 2018. For those treaties ending on June 30, 2018 the Company will be negotiating new private excess of loss type treaties in the coming months, which will afford additional coverage to Federated National and Monarch National both separately and on a combined basis, in conjunction with the coverage provided by the FHCF, and will have a term of at least one year beginning July 1, 2018.