Intermediary Clause

A provision in reinsurance agreements which identifies the intermediary negotiating the agreement.

Most intermediary Clauses shift all Credit risk to reinsurers by providing that:

  1. the cedant’s payments to the intermediary are deemed payments to the reinsurer; and
  2. the reinsurer’s payments to the intermediary are not payments to the cedant until actually received by the cedant.

This Clause is mandatory in some states