Captive insurance management and risk consulting group Align Risk Solutions has acquired Montera Captive Insurance Management, an Arizona-based captive insurance manager
The National Collegiate Athletics Association has formed a captive ahead of its 2022 tournament to provide directors’ and officers’ liability and event cancellation coverage
PMA Companies has appointed Vince Perrotta as senior underwriting specialist within the specialty markets division
Renea Louie, chief operations officer of Pro Group Captive Management, will assume the position of chair for CICA’s 2022 board
Terrorism reinsurer Pool Re has completed placement of its second insurance-linked securities catastrophe bond, issued through the UK-domiciled special purpose vehicle Baltic PCC Ltd
Decentralised finance captive insurance provider SuretyBlock has signed a fronting agreement with Fortress Insurance to enable the former to enlist and serve trade associations, organisations and event organisers across western Canada
Micro captives remain under intense scrutiny from the Internal Revenue Service as tax issues continue to concern the captive industry, according to a panel session examining hot topics at the CICA International Conference
Zlata Cavka, an account administrator working with captive companies in Vermont, speaks with Diana Bui about captive management and emerging opportunities in the industry
Timothy Marlin, senior vice president in Cyber Practice for US and Canada at Marsh, talks about the structure and operating model of Edgware Re group captive
Jeb Dunkelberger, founder and CEO of ClearPoint Health, talks about the company’s new initiative focusing on the ‘full spectrum’ of alternative risk solutions for health insurance
Dr Dirk Höring, member of HDI Global’s executive board for property, engineering and marine insurance, and risk consulting, explains about the new climate risk reporting (CRR) service and its benefits for captives
In the first of two articles on captive legislation in US states, Diana Bui talks to regulators from Vermont, Utah and North Carolina about their strategies to stay competitive and adapt to industry changes
J.J. DeBrosse, Tom Faulconer and William Gulley from Butler University’s Lacy School of Business, talk about different programmes for professionals working in risk and insurance industry
Andy Roderique, assistant vice president at IPFSDirect, and Greg Cobb, director of Insurance Solutions at Sage Advisory Services, discuss how effective investment and payment strategies contribute to captive growth
Henry Brandts-Giesen and Jackson Tu’inukuafe of Dentons talk about key domiciles for captive insurance in Asia Pacific
As South Carolina continues to grow as a captive domicile, the benefits of its stable captive regime have come to bear. Challenges persist in the industry as a whole, however, continued growth will require reflection on how best to handle them
Ten years after the inception of its captive insurance law, North Carolina is flourishing, having hit a significant milestone in licences, and having become the third largest domicile in the US. Ned Holmes examines what the Old North State is doing right
Patrick Ferguson, senior vice president at Marsh Captive Solutions, dissects the key factors that make the Canadian province Alberta a viable option for market participants, and considers how the domicile needs to develop to invite further offshore and onshore participation