1. If reinsurers receive further adverse experience on political risk, they may withdraw their support for this class.

2. When a reinsurer purchases reinsurance, we call it retrocession.

3. AIG's previous disposals include a majority stake in reinsurer Transatlantic Holdings Inc., a Tokyo office tower and an equipment insurer.

4. The solvency of the primary insurer can be threatened if the reinsurer is not financially sound.

5. The company's largest purchase is its roughly $16 billion acquisition of the reinsurer General Re Corp in 1998.

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6. Scor SA rose 3.7 percent to 18.36 euros as France's biggest reinsurer said third-quarter net income rose to 111 million euros ($156.4 million), an 18 percent gain from a year earlier.

7. UBS cut its share-price estimate for the world's largest reinsurer to 80 francs from 88, citing the probability of more investment losses related to credit-market problems.

8. Hannover Re rose 4.3 percent to 38.27 euros. The world's third-biggest reinsurer increased its full-year earnings forecast after quarterly profit rose 66 percent, boosted by a one-off tax gain.

9. The operation of O. I. N. C. as insurer and not as reinsurer as in other European countries.

10. "This is a slow 'U'-shape recession," said Kurt Karl, chief U.S. economist at reinsurer Swiss Re in New York.