“…Recent results pertaining to multidimensional risk models can be found in, e.g. Chan et al (2003), Cai and Li (2005), (2007), Yuen et al (2006), Li et al (2007), Avram et al (2008aAvram et al ( ), (2008b, Dang et al (2009), Rabehasaina (2009), andGong et al (2010). Among these, the work that motivates the present work is that of Avram et al (2008a).…”