The tax shelter micro captive bubble is set to burst in 2018, resulting in large numbers of such companies to surrender their licenses, as many did last year, predicts Jay Adkisson, partner at Riser Adkisson

Group captive insurance consultant Captive Resources has appointed former Zurich North America CEO Mike Foley to its board of directors

Vermont has proposed to update its branch captive legislation to require branch captives to designate the state’s commissioner of the Department of Financial Regulation as its agent for service of process

Delaware is set to extend the deadline for a captive’s annual report and annual premium tax payments from 1 March to 15 April each year

Solidum Partners has issued the second catastrophe bond on ILSBlockchain, a private blockchain set up by their incorporated cell company Solidum Re

Global claims management firm Cunningham Lindsey has appointed Claes Frick as the firm’s CEO in Sweden

RRGs collectively reported almost $2.8 billion of direct premium written through Q3 last year, a 3.5 percent increase over the same period in 2016, according to a report by Demotech's senior financial analyst Douglas Powell

The DC Court of Appeals has reinstated the October 2016 three-judge panel’s findings that the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act does not prohibit captive reinsurance arrangements

International offshore law firm Carey Olsen and Bermudian attorney Michael Hanson have joined forces to establish Carey Olsen Bermuda, a new law firm for the island’s international finance market

Barbados licensed 20 new captive insurance companies last year, an increase on the 13 that were licensed in 2016, according to the Barbados Financial Services Commission

Capstone Associated Services has celebrated its 20-year anniversary

Hub International has hired Lynn Greene as vice president of the employee benefits practice