Re:Insurance is like gambling, don't overdo it
by DangitBobby on Sunday June 20, 2021 @04:23PM
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> Float would be great for the insureco, but any insurer charging anything more annually than average annual claims will lose all their business.
What are you basing the assumption that insurance companies are working with low margins on? There are many competitors, sure, but what reason is there to believe that they must compete on price?
But for geico (primarily auto), where’s the float? I thought it was like a pyramid scheme: this years payments pay out this year’s claims. There would be minimal float for the future except to cover black swan events like a hurricane hitting a state every 10 years, and that might be what Reinsurance is for (something else BH does a lot of, and probably self-deals a lot). Float would be great for the insureco, but any insurer charging anything more annually than average annual claims will lose all their business.