Guy Carpenter

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Guy Carpenter & Company
IndustryReinsurance
Founded1922
ParentMarsh McLennan

Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC,founded in 1922, is a reinsurance company providing global risk and reinsurance solutions. The company is a subsidiary of Marsh McLennan acquired by Marsh & McLennan Companies in 1923.[1][2][3] [4][5]

History[]

In February 2020, Guy Carpenter & Company entered into a multi-year agreement with Karen Clark and Company (KCC) to license its catalogue of natural catastrophe models, analytics and execution software.[6]

Founder[]

Guy Carpenter (1869 - 1935) founded the company in 1922 and concluded a merger with MMC founders Henry W. Marsh and Donald R. McLennan about a year later.[7][4] Concurrently, he was the manager[8] of Atlanta-based[9][10] Cotton Insurance Association,[4] which had been organized in 1905.[11]

His "Carpenter Plan"[12] was based on using a rolling average of losses, over a period of years, rather than simply looking at the prior year.[13]

Methodology[]

One result was that insurance contracts were focused more on what was not covered. Carpenter's contracts were more inclusive - the focus was on what was excluded.[14]

Fire insurance paid for the damage resulting from a fire.

An example of how this did not work was the following:

A bale of cotton sitting in a railroad car caught fire. By the time the insurance company won an appeal against having to pay, "No insurance for the loss of the cotton" was paid, but, to help the owner of the cotton rebuild the business, "a loan or advance has been made to him by the insurance company, to be repaid ..."[15]

By the time of this injustice, Carpenter's plan, which he had discussed with Lloyd's of London in 1915, [4] was beginning to take root.[13]

References[]

  1. ^ "Guy Carpenter Announces New Global Capability to Help Clients Navigate Evolving InsurTech Market". NYTimes.com. September 9, 2018.
  2. ^ "Guy Carpenter". PlugAndPlayTechCenter.com. over a 90-year history
  3. ^ "Guy Carpenter partners with RPC Consulting to Offer Re/Insurance Analytic Platform". August 22, 2018.
  4. ^ a b c d "Guy Carpenter - Insurance Hall of Fame Laureate Profile". Retrieved November 24, 2018.
  5. ^ "Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. History".
  6. ^ Smith, Ryan. "Guy Carpenter inks agreement with Karen Clark and Company". Insurance Business. Retrieved 2020-02-28.
  7. ^ "Guy Carpenter". The New York Times. March 10, 1935. p. 34.
  8. ^ "How Umbrella Policies Started Part 1: Early Liability Coverage". Guy Carpenter ... when he was insurance manager of the Cotton Insurance Association
  9. ^ "Cotton Insurance Association". The New York Times. September 24, 1905. p. 22. F. M. Butt of Atlanta has been chosen manager of the Cotton Insurance Association
  10. ^ Spectator [Philadelphia]. An American Review of Insurance. 1922. Texas Commissioner of Insurance ... with the Cotton Insurance Association of Atlanta, which is ...
  11. ^ "Full text of Annual Cyclopedia of Insurance in the United States". COTTON INSURANCE ASSOCIATION .. organized in 1905
  12. ^ Peter Borscheid; David Gugerli; Harold James (2013). The Value of Risk: Swiss Re and the History of Reinsurance. ISBN 978-0199689804. ... broker Guy Carpenter ... the Carpenter Plan represented
  13. ^ a b "Guy Carpenter Elected to the Insurance Hall of Fame". January 31, 2011.
  14. ^ "Over 90 years of clarity".
  15. ^ "Dejean v. Louisiana Western R. Co., 118 So. 822".

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