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- Captives And Other Risk-Financing Options
- Traditionally, businesses and other organizations have handled risk by transferring it to an insurance company through the purchase of an insurance policy or, alternatively, by retaining the risk and allocating funds to meet expected losses through an arrangement known as "self insurance," in which firms retain rather than transfer risk....
- White papers 2003-10-01
- The Captive Option for Employee Benefits
- A captive is an insurance company that's owned by a corporation whose primary business is not insurance. The captive provides coverage only for its parent organization. Insuring employee benefits through a captive has been problematic because the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ERISA expressly forbids transactions between an employee benefit...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Captives 101: Managing Cost and Risk
- A captive is a bona fide insurance or reinsurance company. Its business is primarily supplied by and controlled by its owners, which are also normally the principal insureds. These owners/insureds participate in controlling the underwriting, claims and investment decisions of the insurance company. This article on captives defines them and...
- White papers 2004-08-17
- TRACS: The Road to Successful Captive Management
- Captives are created to serve their owner-policyholders. Traditional insurance solvency and ratio standards may not apply to them. Tillinghast Recognized and Accepted Captive Standards TRACS was developed to help captives prudently manage and benchmark their operation. This paper concentrates on the captive as a special-purpose vehicle for insuring and retaining...
- White papers 2005-08-03
- MGIC Investment Corp. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator (Operator’s Instructions) Our first question comes from Donna Halverstadt. Donna Halverstadt – Goldman Sachs Good morning gentlemen. Curt S. Culver Good morning. Donna Halverstadt – Goldman Sachs I had a couple of questions; one I wanted to ask about was what level...
- Earnings calls 2009-01-20
Additional Resources
- Humana case may offer captive boon. (Captive Insurance Review)
- Humana Case May Offer Captive Boon Humana Inc.'s successful court appeal, which resulted in tax deductions for its subsidiaries for premiums they paid to its captive, presents other captive operators with the prospect of millions of dollars in deducHumana Case May Offer Captive Boon...
- Research articles 1990-03-12
- Captive growth steady despite market. (captive insurance companies)
- A continued soft insurance cycle has not stopped insurance buyers from forming captive insurance companies, according to captive managers from the insurance brokerage community who debated when the best time to form a captive is during recent intervi A continued soft insurance cycle has not stopped...
- Research articles 1994-03-21
- Vt. Passes New Captive Law.(captive insurance)(Brief Article)
- Vermont is celebrating its 20th year as a domicile for captive insurers with something even better than fireworks--new captive legislation. "Everything passed the Senate and the House," said Len Crouse, director of captive insurance in t Vermont is celebrating its 20th year as...
- Research articles 2001-06-11
- Ranking: Largest captive managers worldwide; Ranked by captives managed worldwide in 2006.(Spotlight: Self-Insurance & Captive Management)(Brief article)(Company rankings)
- ***** Correction: A chart in the March 12 issue, Largest Captive Managers Worldwide, contained an incorrect name for Aon Corp.'s captive unit. The correct name is Aon Global Insurance Managers. ***** 1. Aon Captive Services Group, Dublin, Ire ...
- Research articles 2007-03-12
- Captive Insurers And Employee Benefits: The Tide Is Coming In
- Captive insurers have long provided corporations and other institutions the ability or at least the potential to effectively underwrite and manage their own risks, in contrast to obtaining conventional insurance coverage through third party insurers. However, the evolution of the prohibited transaction position taken by the U.S. Department of Labor...
- White papers 2003-03-01
- Vehicle Captive Finance: CRM Solutions for Captive Finance
- In a highly dynamic competitive environment, vehicle captive finance companies need tools that deploy best practices across their operating domains and empower their employees and partners to work together toward consistent delivery of outstanding customer service and profitability. Success requires an information technology foundation that understands the complexities of the...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- Tax Court OKs captive deductions.
- Tax Court OKs Captive Deductions Providing clear guidelines for tax deductibility of premiums paid to a wholly-owned captive, the U.S. Tax Court has ruled that a parent may take such deductions if the captive writes as little as 30 percent in outsidTax Court OKs...
- Research articles 1991-02-11
- Governor Signs S.C. Captive Bill.(South Carolina)(Brief Article)
- South Carolina Governor Jim Hodges recently signed into law a bill that allows a new class of captive and adds provisions to sponsored captive legislation in South Carolina. "Effective [immediately] we have a new class of captive--a reinsuran South Carolina Governor Jim Hodges...
- Research articles 2001-06-11
- IRS issues captive insurer guidelines
- The Internal Revenue Service has issued guidelines on captive insurers, loss reserving and unpaid loss adjustment expenses which may interest captive operators taxed under Subpart F, captive insurers that have made elections under Section 953d and domestic captive insurers or risk retention groups. The guidelines on captive insurers concern...
- Research articles 1991-02-01
- Captive Value Added
- Value measurement entails comparisons. Comparisons to standards, such as financial ratios, are the most common in financial services. Although net income and return on capital are the standards most often used by insurers, they are not the best indicators of value for captives because they are only partly relevant to...
- White papers 2001-02-01
- Shift in the wind for captive owners?(captive insurance)(Brief Article)
- U.S. COMPANIES MAY BE WINNING the battle to prove that captive insurance arrangements serve a legitimate business purpose beyond providing tax benefits. Captive owners last month won another victory in this ongoing campaign, when a federal appeals U.S. COMPANIES MAY BE WINNING the...
- Research articles 2001-07-02
- Captive 'time bomb' quote riles CICA. (Captives).(Captive Insurance Companies Association)(Brief Article)
- The president of a captive association is fighting mad about an article in The Wall Street Journal that included a quote describing captive insurers as "a time bomb waiting to explode." The Aug. 1 article, "Risky Game: Companies Scri The president of a captive...
- Research articles 2002-08-12
- Despite IRS attempts, captive wall remains intact
- Despite recent legislative changes to the tax treatment of captive insurers and their owners that have effectively removed many of the preconceived tax abuses in the captive insurance company area, the Internal Revenue Service continues to attack the deductibility of premiums paid by U.S. insureds to captive insurers. It...
- Research articles 1991-09-01
- Berry finds a willing captive.(TECHNOLOGY & PACKAGING)(Berry Plastics Corporation merge with Captive Plastics Inc.)(Brief article)
- US-based packaging company Berry Plastics Corporation has bought Captive Plastics Inc, part of the First Atlantic Capital portfolio. Berry has agreed to pay $500m cash for 100% of Captive's outstanding common tock. Ira Boots, chairman and ceo of Berry, said Captive had strong ...
- Research articles 2008-01-11
- Negotiating the Buying of Reinsurance on Behalf of the Owners of Captive Insurance Companies
- The owner of a captive insurance company lacks the experience of buying reinsurance, especially when they are dealing with the few sophisticated reinsurers that exist in today?s reinsurance market. In the reinsurance buying negotiation process, the captive owner is at a complete disadvantage when dealing with experienced reinsurance company executives....
- White papers 2005-01-21
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