Facultative Matters addresses emerging issues and exposures affecting property and casualty underwriters in facultative reinsurance.

	Facultative Matters -- Wind and Solar Energy Time Element--More Than Meets the Eye (size:1.29MB) Issue: August, 2011   Language: English Author:  T. Michael Maloney Summary: The article discusses the complexity of time element exposures for U.S. Wind and Solar Energy risks. You will read about the three main types of time element exposures for these technologies: electricity sales, financial incentives, and renewable energy certificates.

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	Facultative Matters -- Solar Issues Send Up Flares (size:1.24MB) Issue: April, 2011   Language: English Author:  Elizabeth Berge Summary: This article discusses Solar Flares--the natural phenomenon of massive explosions in the Sun's atmosphere that interfere with the Earth's magnetic field, and how they could affect power grids across the United States. In this article, you can learn about solar flares, the U.S. power grid, and past geomagnetic storms.

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	Facultative Matters -- Solar Thermal Power Generation (size:0.37MB) Issue: March, 2010   Language: English Author:  Ruben Garcia Summary: This article provides insights on the solar thermal power generation technology. It discusses the economics, the equipment used such as heliostats and sun-tracking systems, hazards and concerns, and underwriting considerations.

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	Facultative Matters, July 2009 (size:0.95MB) Issue: July, 2009   Language: English Author:  Peter Hakenen Summary: This edition of Facultative Matters has one new article -- Risk Differentiation for High-Tech Occupancies, and one Gen Re article reprint -- States and Municipalities--Going Green.

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	Facultative Matters, March 2009 (size:0.52MB) Issue: March, 2009   Language: English Authors:  T. Michael Maloney,  Rick Rembisz Summary: This edition of Facultative Matters has two articles: Historic Property Rehabilitation Tax-Credit Incentive Insurance and Future Liabilities From New Energy Technologies. There is also a Gen Re article reprint about property insurers going "green."

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	Facultative Matters Europe - Compression (size:0,79MB) Issue: November, 2008   Language: English Summary: One of the big topics that seems to surface from year to year is the "compression" of net and treaty structures by non-propertional facultative solutions. Even though it is most evident with proportional treaties, compression can also occur with non-proportional treaty structures or indeed when the net retention of a given client is further protected by a non-proportional treaty. This article will focus mostly oncompression in relation to a proportional treaty structure, including the effects of having the net protected by a non-proportional treaty.

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	Facultative Matters, November 2007 (size:0.54MB) Issue: November, 2007   Language: English Authors:  Melinda Kawamura,  Oliver Stein,  James Sullivan Summary: This edition of Facultative Matters has three articles: Manufacturing Solar Modules -- Clean Power with "Clean" Exposures?; Understanding the "New York Labor Law"; and Western U.S. Wildfires Are Heating Up.

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	Facultative Matters, May 2007 (size:0.22MB) Issue: May, 2007   Language: English Authors: Jamie Daggett,  Gary Embleton,  Jessica Haworth Summary: This edition of Facultative Matters has three articles: The Regulatory History of the Insurance Industry in the U.S.; Efforts to Reform Regulation of the Insurance Industry in the U.S. -- a followup to the first article; and Clinical Trials -- a Brief Primer.

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