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How to Structure and Operate a Successful Captive Insurance Program Author Kathryn Westover has set up and managed more than 50 successful captives during her 20-plus years of experience. This book will help you understand the accepted practices and procedures that support a captive’s ability to achieve its mission and purpose. Learn what it takes to establish a successful captive insurance company—one that sets the standard and withstands the test of time! Learn How To Make Sure Your Captive is Built to Last
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IRMI's popular book, Captives and the Management of Risk, is designed to help newcomers and risk funding veterans alike understand the pros and cons of captives and apply proven concepts for strategic success. This comprehensive book breaks down the complex topic of captives, revealing the types of risk that can be handled by captives, why captives can be effective as a risk management tool, tax and accounting considerations, how to determine if a captive is feasible, how to choose a domicile, and how to manage and operate a captive. Captives and the Management of Risk is divided into 13 chapters, each one designed to answer a Captive Frequently Asked Question, or "CAPFAQ!" This book is authored by Kathryn Westover, President of Captive Advisory Services, who has worked with risk funding programs for over 15 years. Ms. Westover takes the perspective of those working within the regulatory environment of the United States, and the guidelines and strategies she offers will assure your success in managing, participating in, or recognizing whether a captive is the best risk management option. By Kathryn Westover, 216 pp., March 2002. Print price, including shipping within the US: $66.00. Sales tax will be added on orders shipped to CA, FL, GA, IA, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OH, PA, TN, TX, VA, WA and WI. Shipping charges will be passed on to the customer for orders outside the US. Read
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Captive Insurance Company Reports
Written by the consultants of Tillinghast-Towers Perrin, Captive Insurance Company Reports (CICR) is the first and most well-known periodical to focus on the alternative market. CICR covers reinsurance, tax, and regulatory developments in the captive industry. Each month it provides comprehensive reports and comparisons of new and existing captive domiciles. It also addresses reinsurance and fronting conditions and their effects on captives. Subscribers will also receive summaries of the proceedings from many conferences, assessments of the latest tax legislation, and the holdings of recent court cases. CICR's annual review issue, "Captive Scene Today," provides a definitive summary of the growth and the latest trends in this sector of the market. Subscribers to the electronic versions of CICR are provided a fully searchable archive of all issues published since August 1998 The May 2008 issue of CICR contains the following topics of interest: The May issue of the Captive
Insurance Company Reports begins with the recent IRS guidance on Federal
Excise Taxes applying on a cascading basis. It was written by Bruce Wright
and M. Kristan Rizzolo of the New York law firm of Dewey
& LeBoeuf. It discusses in general how FET is imposed on insurance
and reinsurance policies. It then presents Revenue Ruling 2008-15 which
addresses four factual situations and how the FET would be imposed, then
Announcement 2008-18 describing the "voluntary compliance initiative"
designed to encourage non-U.S insurers and reinsurers to pay. Dewey &
LeBoeuf conclude with their commentary on the IRS's position, raising
the significant substantive and administrative questions that are involved.
Kick the tires before you buy! To see a sample CICR, View The January 2008 issue in Adobe Acrobat (pdf). The lead story in this issue is entitled Insurance Outlook: 2008.
Price: $425.00 USD. Sales tax will be added on orders shipped to CA, FL, GA, IA, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OH, PA, TN, TX, VA, WA and WI. Shipping charges will be passed on to the customer for orders outside the US. Order
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This leading edge reference provides the details you need to know about deductibles, experience rating, retrospective rating, self-insurance, risk retention groups, self-insurance trusts and pools, captives, finite risk insurance, the alternative market, and other cash flow plans. Today's risk management and insurance professional must be extremely knowledgeable in the pros and cons as well as the operation of each plan. Risk Financing will help you develop competitive alternatives, prepare complete, understandable proposals and/or reports, advise of the tax and accounting considerations of the various alternatives, and keep you abreast of changes that affect your services and programs. It includes eight valuable appendices, containing summaries of state self-insurance regulations, copies of relevant FASBs, internal revenue code provisions, captive insurer legislation, cost guidelines, etc. This service also includes The Risk Financing newsletter with each supplement to the manual. Two loose leaf volumes, 1,500 pages. Price: $355.00 USD. Sales tax will be added on orders shipped to CA, FL, GA, IA, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OH, PA, TN, TX, VA, WA and WI. Shipping charges will be passed on to the customer for orders outside the US. Order
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The use of captive insurance companies grew significantly in the soft
market and is expanding rapidly in the hard market.. As a risk management
or insurance professional, you can view traditional market change and
the increasing use of the alternative market as either a threat or opportunity.
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