Modern Captive Insurance

Insurance is a sophisticated financial vehicle that can be best understood through the lens of risk management. Experiencing dramatic growth, captive insurance is owned and controlled by its insureds, pooling the risks of its owners. Captive insurance provides businesses with unmatched flexibility regarding coverage, claims, premium, and control, while also offering advantages such as lucrative dividends and innovative financing techniques. This state-of-the-art guide traces the development of small captive insurance and addresses how to set up and properly manage a captive. Modern Captive Insurance: A Legal Guide to Formation, Operation, and Exit Strategies, begins with an overview of what captive insurance is and detail the advantages in setting up a captive for a range of different business situations. Chapters explain how to incorporate and start up a new captive insurance program, including basic terminology and the roles different professionals play in running captive programs. Captive insurance is an intricate yet effective risk management strategy. For guidance in properly establishing a captive, the authors address critical issues evaluated by the IRS, such as risk shifting and distribution, and explore ethical considerations arising out of off-shore captive management, such as how to identify money laundering red flags and how to properly manage the investments of reserves. Modern Captive Insurance takes an in-depth look at the topics and issues that are common in insurance and in businesses, but are often handled differently for captives, such as: Financial statements, investments, and financial ratings Policy drafting and coverage Risk pools and structuring the pooling arrangement to be valid Federal, state and local taxation Tax-exempt organizations Risk retention groups (RRP) Reinsurance, and more Table of Contents Chapter 1: Captive Company Formation Chapter 2: Captives and Capitalists Chapter 3: Risk Pools Chapter 4: Financial Statements, Investments, and Financial Ratings Chapter 5: Policy Drafting and Coverage Chapter 6: Underwriting and Claims Reserving Chapter 7: Federal Income Tax and Captives Chapter 8: State and Local Captive Insurance Issues Chapter 9: Tax-Exempt Organizations and Captive Insurance Chapter 10: Risk Retention Groups and How They Work Chapter 11: Reinsurance Chapter 12: Workers' Compensation and the Grand Bargain Chapter 13: Employee Benefits Conclusion Table of Cases and Index

A captive insurance company is, in a nutshell, an insurance company formed by a business owner to insure the risks of the operating business. The operating business pays premiums to the captive, and the captive insures the risks of the operating business. A captive is much more than an exotic form of self-insurance: It is the creation of a new insurance company that has the potential to grow from being a mere captive into a full-blown insurance company seeking to profit from underwriting the risks of others. Adkisson's Captive Insurance Companies provides a basic introduction to captives and their benefits, including: utilize your own experience ratings; recapture underwriting profits; underwrite exposed risks and deductibles; access the reinsurance markets; and transfer wealth between generations. This book also provides a unique look at the wealth transfer, accumulation and preservation advantages of captives, as well as an overview of the types of captives, taxation of captives, and captive domiciles.

The Definitive Guide to Captive Insurance Companies: What Every Small Business Owner Needs To Know About Creating and Implementing a Captive Americas top corporate estate, tax and asset protection attorney provides readers with true insight on multiple key sophisticated planning techniques for small business owners implementing captive insurance companies. The Definitive Guide to Captive Insurance Companies will provide readers with the ability to: - Reduce income taxation, - Increase cashflow, - Self-insure, - Protect personal and business assets, and - Enhance estate planning.

This is the first book on captive insurance which informs the reader whether or not he should form a captive insurance company, how to run it along with an explanation of the tax issues associated with running a property and casualty insurance company. In addition, the reader is taken through an entire case law history of captive insurance to better enable him to understand the issues related to forming a captive insurance company. New with this edition is a lengthy section by Beckett G. Cantley addressing special IRS considerations about which the captive owner and/or practitioner should be aware. These include the applicability of certain judicial and statutory anti-avoidance doctrines applied by the IRS and courts to disallow certain tax benefits associated with captive transactions that exploit the Internal Revenue Code in a manner not intended or contemplated by Congress.

MANAGE YOUR RISK IN A MORE EFFICIENT WAY What if you could insure the risks of your business, reduce your out of-pocket expenses, and create another source of revenue? Sounds too good to be true, right? With The Business Owner's Definitive Guide to Captive Insurance Companies, Mr. Strauss shows that, by utilizing a captive insurance company, this is not only possible but also a lot easier than you'd imagine. As one of America's top corporate, tax, and risk management attorneys, Mr. Strauss provides readers with true insight on the key sophisticated planning techniques used by small business owners who implement captive insurance companies. You'll learn the fundamentals and history of captive insurance and how this technique can provide numerous benefits to your business. This book will provide you with the insight on how to: -reduce out-of-pocket expenses; -increase cash flow; -insure more of the risks of your business; -protect personal and business assets from lawsuits; and -select the appropriate manager for your captive insurance company. Creating a captive insurance company may sound daunting, but with Mr. Strauss's guidance you can navigate the legal maze and utilize this valuable strategy with ease. Don't miss out on crucial out-of-pocket savings, and create more liquidity in a more tax-efficient manner. Take steps today and reap the benefits of captive insurance!