Integro Insurance Brokers has introduced XS Plus, an analytical model that quantifies the value of an excess liability insurance program that clients use to minimize their exposure to catastrophic risk. “A lot of our clients are interested in justifying their risk transfer decisions,” explains Ben Fidlow, managing principal and head of Integro's risk modeling and actuarial practice. XS Plus–short for Program Limit and Underlying Structure–compares a client's loss history to a database of loss histories of similar companies in similar industries. Based on this comparison, Integro can use actuarial processes to simulate the number of claims and the cost of each claim that the client will likely file under an upcoming contract for excess liability coverage. By combining simulation outcomes with client-specific financial analysis, Integro can assign an explicit dollar value to each layer of a client's excess liability insurance.

XS Plus is the latest in a series of proprietary tools developed by Integro under its IntegroMetrics operating philosophy. “It's our philosophy to assist our clients on factual-based analysis of risk, and not use pure benchmarking, which in many cases is not applicable,” says Fidlow. “Every company is different, with different risk exposures and different risk tolerances.”