Reasons for commuting reinsurance contracts often include: (1) perceived financial instability of the reinsurer, (2) inefficiencies associated with the runoff of longer tailed liabilities, (3) significantly different evaluation of ultimate loss costs or (4) the reinsurers withdrawal from the reinsurance marketplace. More @Wikipedia
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