Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2016
We consider risk processes with reinsurance. A general family of reinsurance contracts is allowed, including proportional and excess-of-loss policies. Claim occurrence is regulated by a classical compound Poisson process or by a Markov-modulated compound Poisson process. We provide some large deviation results concerning these two risk processes in the small-claim case. Finally, we derive the so-called Lundberg estimate for the ruin probabilities and present a numerical example.