The insurance industry has an important role to play in adaptation and mitigation measures to tackle the effects of climate change, according to Sheri Wilbanks, head of group risk management, property and casualty climate and sustainability at AXA XL
Insurance broker and consulting firm NFP has expanded its medical stop-loss and self-funded group captive business with the acquisitions of East Coast Underwriters and Blue Ridge Captive Solutions PCC
Audit partner Diana Hardy has been selected as chair of the North Carolina Captive Insurance Association
Risk Strategies has acquired employee benefits and risk services consulting firm The Gehring Group
The Bermuda captive industry has launched The Bermuda Captive Network, a membership-focused organisation providing education, business development and representation for Bermuda’s captive and managed insurance industry
Rocke, who joined the company on 1 February 2022 as managing director, has been a resident of Bermuda since 2006
The licences granted by the state were for new captive formations and the re-domestication of some captives to Connecticut from other domicile states
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