- Captives: boon for the middle market; Not that long ago, captive insurance only made sense for huge corporations. New IRS rulings, however, have allowed captives to serve as profit centers for mid-sized...
If you don't have a captive insurance program in place, you may soon be in the minority: insurance industry trends indicate that most businesses will implement a captive insurance program by 2010. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Already, more than 10,000 businesses--representing industries ranging from finance to construction--have begun to accumulate vast amounts ......
- Captive insurance companies and manager-owner
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INTRODUCTION Captive insurers are formal insurance subsidiaries established to primarily finance risks of their parent organizations. Over the past 35 years, captive insurers have become popular self-insurance mechanisms among corporate risk managers. The 1996 Captive Insurance Company Directory includes a total of 2,880 single-parent captive insurers, as compared to the ......
- What You Need to Know About Workers' Compensation Insurance
Workers' compensation benefits provide coverage for medical expenses as well as reimbursement for lost wages when employees are injured on the job. Workers' compensation coverage includes two types of protection: workers' compensation and employer's liability.
- When an Insurer Is Not An Insurer
HEADNOTE NEPTUNE HEADNOTE As premiums soar, some firms try paying themselves IN MARCH, when the New Jersey affiliate of the National Federation of Independent Businesses trade group asked its members to rank their most pressing concerns, insurance costs took the No. 1 spot, beating out big-company competition, taxes and weak ......
- Understanding the risks and rewards of rent-a-captives
WHEN standard markets dry up, agents and brokers may turn to excess and surplus-lines carriers to arrange coverage for their clients. Captive mechanisms can be another alternative. These are insurance companies licensed under special laws that can be used to insure one or more risks. Captives often are owned by ......
- Starting a Captive Insurance
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Since reshaping our business model four years ago, ASAE Services, Inc., has been restructuring its sponsored programs and adding alternatives that provide better benefits and increased stability for ASAE's members. Among the programs with much potential to help members is the new ASAE Insurance Company (AIC), a sponsored association captive ......
- Captive Insurance
Purchasing insurance continues to be difficult and expensive for construction firms. While the risks contractors face every day in their businesses may not have changed much in the past three years, the insurance industry certainly has. Many carriers have pulled out of the construction trades altogether, and there continues to ......