Project unpaid allocated loss adjustment expenses, including ratio-to-loss development approaches.

Free CAS Exam 5 (Basic Ratemaking and Reserving) lesson in Estimating Claim Liabilities. 18 min read, ~2,705 words.

ALAE is claim-specific expense (defense counsel, expert fees, court costs); ULAE is general overhead not tied to any one claim. Two method families: develop ALAE directly as its own triangle, or develop the ALAE-to-loss ratio and apply it to ultimate loss. Ratio-to-loss development comes in two forms: multiplicative (age-to-age ratio...

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