PMA Companies has appointed Steven Woodard as captives and programmes leader within the firm’s specialty markets division
Insurance and reinsurance broker BMS has appointed Ian Matheson as non-executive chairman of its Canadian operations
Property, casualty, accident and health insurance solutions provider Crum & Forster has appointed Mark Coyle as assistant vice president of captives
The Captive Insurance Companies Association has revealed former World Champion triathlete and coach Siri Lindley as the keynote speaker for its 2022 International Conference
Appleby has acted as Bermuda counsel to Integral ILS regarding the insurance-linked securities fund manager’s total investor commitments of more than US$1.4 billion
BMS Re has acted as broker in a legacy reinsurance transaction on behalf of Applied Medico-Legal Solutions Risk Retention Group
Global commercial insurance rates saw an increase of 13 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2021, indicating a continued trend of moderating rate increases, according to Marsh’s Global Insurance Market Index
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