Fronting Company


Definition of "Fronting company"

Same as term Fronting: procedure under which the CEDING COMPANY (the primary or fronting company) cedes the risk it has underwritten to its reinsurer with the ceding company retaining none or a very small portion of that risk for its own account.



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