The Federation of European Risk Management Associations has called for captives to be automatically classified as low-risk profile undertakings in the European Commission’s review of the Solvency II regime
Cutts-Watson Consulting has made new executive appointments, announcing Dominic Wheatley as managing director and Graham Powell as head of consulting respectively
The Massachusetts legislature has seen increased support for Senate Bill 548, ‘An act relative to crumbling concrete foundations’, following a hearing by the Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture last week
Cowbell Cyber Inc has formed a new captive, Cowbell Re, to provide additional capacity to help address the growing demand for cyber insurance in 2022
Cyber risk management solutions provider KYND has received a £3.25 million investment from BGF, the UK’s most active growth capital investor
Specialty Captive Group, part of holding company Specialty Program Group, has acquired the assets of Sedgwick’s alternative risks services division
Stop-loss general agency Stealth Partner Group has launched Stealth Captive Solutions to provide employers with flexible, self-funded health insurance plans
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
