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To ACG Limited Website

Get that Captive off your mind...
and off your balance sheet

CAPTIVE CLOSURE PROGRAM & CAPTIVE ACQUISITIONS

ACG helps companies run-off or divest themselves entirely of unwanted captives or captive porfolios that have stopped writing new business. ACG'sw run-off services can alleviate the ongoing administrative costs associated with owning and managing dormant captives, help to free up captial for better uses and reduce director exposure for administering companies whose specialized insurance business is outside the scope of their expertise and comfort zones.

Control the outcome with ACG Insurance Risk Assumption and Run-Off services:

  • Acquisition of Captive Portfolio
  • Captive Risk Assumption
  • Novations
  • Commutation of Reinsurance
  • Reinsurance Placement
  • Run-Off Management
  • Claims Management
  • Litigation Management
  • Underwriting
  • Overall Program Management
  • Management-for-Hire
  • Directorships

CONTACT

ACG Headquarters: 2530 Riva Rd., Suite 308 Annapolis, MD 21401
Tel.: 443.569.0788, Fax: 410.571.2798, Website: www.ACGlimited.com

Yumkas, Lawrence J. (Chief Operating Officer): lyumkas@acglimited.com

Russack, Tate M. (Director): tate@acglimited.com

Logan, Sean C. (Director): slogan@acglimited.com




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16485 Laguna Canyon Rd.
Suite 250
Irvine, CA 92618

Phone: (800) 921-0155
Fax: (949) 727-4770

Email: fturner@activecaptive.com

 

COMPETENCE, INTEGRITY AND INNOVATION

Active Captive Management specializes in the formation and management of captive insurance companies for small and medium size companies. Combining over 3 decades of Captive Risk Solutions talent and experience, ACM provides risk transfer solutions in the following industries; Real Estate Development, Healthcare, Fuel and Oil, Nursing Home’s, Manufacturing, Automotive, Agriculture and Franchising, to name a few.

Active Captive Management is an approved captive insurance manager in the State of Utah, Delaware, Nevis and the British Virgin Islands.

Active Captive Management provides the expertise to form, manage and operate your captive, enabling ownership to retain focus on primary business entities, while engaging a team of experts in the captive industry to effectively manage the compliance, regulations and financial aspects of the supporting captive. ACM’s services assures you will be in a position to capitalize on this viable risk management solution as well as the tax incentives Congress has provided, as has been done by a growing number of large US corporations and multinationals.


For more information visit our web site:
www.activecaptive.com



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To Alta Holdings Website

Elite Clients.

Elite Professionals.

Your Elite Choice.

The Alta Group offers a complete comliment of captive management, formation and consultancy services for both on-shore and off-shore captive insurance clients.

With a choice of jurisdictions and a wealth of experienced professionals, Alta is prepared to meet your alternative risk needs.


  • Captive Structuring, Formation & Management
  • Program Administration & Management
  • Fronting and Reinsurance Placements
  • Underwriting and Policy Issuance
  • Claims Management
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Financial Management

 

Donald B. Rousso, Managing Director
Alta Holdings, LLC
3080 Bristol Street, Suite 630
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Email Donald Rousso
Tel (714) 433-2944 Fax (714) 433 2936

Greg Taylor, Director
Alta Insurance Management Limited
Tico Building, Wickhams Cay II
Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands
Email Greg Taylor
Tel (284) 494 9670

Visit our website at www.altaholdings.com


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To AIX websiteWhat do you want from your captive insurance partner?

It’s not stale clichés such as “valued added services,” “best practices” or “paradigm shifting”. It’s relying on tried and true business and insurance fundamentals. AIX applies those fundamentals to provide clients an optimal and efficient insurance solution that is designed specifically for each individual program or captive.

Lines of Business Offered

  • General Liability
  • Workers Compensation
  • Property
  • Automobile Liability

Key Attributes of our Insurance Structures

  • All captives must have some type of homogeneity, either through line of business, class of business, or geographic location. This enables us to target our underwriting and loss prevention as specifically as possible
  • Captives sized between $3 million and $25 million in primary premium
  • Primary policy limits are typically:
    • $1 million for General Liability, Property and Automobile Liability;
    • Statutory limits for Workers Compensation
  • All ventures must have some sort of risk sharing by the distribution source and/or the insured built into the structure
  • Underwriting authority generally remains at the AIX level

Access to Our Controlled Admitted and Non-Admitted Carrier

  • Our wholly owned admitted carrier, Nova Casualty (AM BEST A- VII), is licensed in 48 states and has been writing primary business for 25+ years.
  • Our wholly owned non-admitted carrier, AIX Specialty, is domiciled in Delaware.

Risk Transfer Mechanisms Supported

  • Owned Captive
  • Rent-A-Captive
  • Segregated Cell Captive
  • Risk Retention Group
  • We also support traditional first dollar and deductible/SIR programs

Contact Information

Ron Ganiats EVP-Business Development 1-860-683-9890 [E-mail]
Mark Green Chief Risk Officer 1-860-683-9870


OPTIMAL RESULTS ACHIEVED THROUGH:

Underwriting - By looking at specialized books of business, we can hone in on specific and unique underwriting issues, thereby lowering the loss ratio which lowers the all in cost of risk.

Alignment of Interests - By aligning the interests of AIX with those of the distribution source, and/or the insured, we build positive relationships since all parties are working together, rather than apart.

Management Experience - The senior team has written over $3 billion of primary premiums through 250 unique programs and captives over their combined 15 decades of specialty/alternative insurance experience. AIX has a proven track record and the knowledge and contacts to deliver on the firm’s promise of structuring an optimal captive facility.

Custom Design - From the choice of admitted or non admitted paper and risk transfer vehicle to the optimum reinsurance and loss prevention program. AIX tailors the whole of the captive to each client’s individual needs.

IT Platform - The AIX system is internet-based, scalable and real time. This provides a range of cost-saving capabilities that can flow through directly to captive outcomes.

Low Overhead - By locating our operations in low cost regions and negotiating services on your behalf, we strive to lower costs where ever we can.


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AMSBVI Home Page

The AMS Group
Sea Meadow House
P.O. Box 116
Road Town
Tortola
British Virgin Islands

Contacts:

Derek Lloyd
E-mail Derek Lloyd

Cathy Mendoza
E-mail Cathy Mendoza

Tel: (284) 494-4078
Fax: (284) 494-2519

With an aggregate experience of over forty years, AMS' captive management team is drawn from complimentary backgrounds of underwriting, insurance broking, captive management, risk management and finance. Our dedicated team of four is the largest captive team in the British Virgin Islands.

Our captive experience is not limited to the BVI. Team members have worked in other domiciles including Bermuda, working with blue-chip clients and have developed a global understanding of the captive market. We boast the only fully qualified Chartered Insurer and risk manager among the BVI captive managers.

AMS provides all captive formation and management services and targets the larger more complex accounts requiring added value services rather than pure compliance. We conduct feasibility and program-design assignments and arrange fronting and reinsurance. We have the in-house capability to design innovative insurance programs and draft manuscript wordings for unique risks.

We are an independent specialist captive manager applying an autonomous experience-driven and plain English approach to captives. Since our team is drawn from complimentary yet highly relevant disciplines that contribute to captive management, we develop strong personal relationships with clients with no need for distant parent group resources or time consuming referral.

Visit us at www.amsbvi.com for comprehensive details of our services, downloads of articles, a copy of the Insurance Act, 1994 and other useful guidance.

Take me there now!

 


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  Independent

  Innovative

  Flexible

Captive Consultancy,
Formation and Management

A member of the Britannia Consulting Group

Trade Winds Building Third Floor Bay Street
PO Box CB - 12724 Nassau Bahamas
Tel: (242) 326-5205 Fax (242) 326-5349
E-mail: meveleigh@britgroup.com

Visit our Home Page for more information and articles

 


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Beecher Carlson specializes in insurance brokerage, consulting, and captive management exclusively for large corporations and groups. We are now a private company again. In November of 2003, we completed an employee led buyout from American Re along with outside private investors. This independence increases our flexibility and ability to further develop our organization as the premier integrated consulting broker with captive management services.

Beecher Carlson’s integration of strong financial and analytical skills assists our clients in designing cost efficient insurance programs that meet their needs. We have full service brokerage and consulting offices in Princeton, NJ, Los Angeles, CA, and Atlanta, GA that operate on a national basis and place insurance globally. Our captive management offices are located in Bermuda, Vermont and Hawaii.

Our captive management offices provide comprehensive captive management services. Our services include applications, financial management, local domicile management and involvement with the local regulators. Additionally, we share captive financial information with clients electronically. We manage rental captives for insurance companies and agents.

We offer a full range of consulting services with CPAs and actuaries on staff. We offer assistance in many risk management areas including program design, alternative risk financing studies, loss projections and simulations.

We become a partner with our clients in developing and implementing programs that meet their objectives. We are a client-driven company who learns about and understands the business of our clients.

Contact us at beechercarlson.com or:

Princeton
Gregory K. Myers
(609) 452-1411
gmyers@bc-companies.com
Atlanta
Robert Hessel
(770) 690-2115
rhessel@bc-companies.com
Los Angeles
Robert Glicksteen
(818) 598-4216
rglicksteen@bc-companies.com
Bermuda
Tony Bibbings
(441) 278-4209
tbibbings@bc-companies.com
Hawaii
Wanda Jong
(808) 521-1121
wjong@bc-companies.com
Vermont
Tobias Burke
(802) 658-7849
tburke@bc-companies.com


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Belmont

Belmont Insurance Management Limited is an affiliate of Baker Tilly (BVI) Limited, one of the largest firms of chartered accountants in the Territory and an independent member of Baker Tilly International.

We are committed to providing clients with a responsive, knowledgeable and professional service. Our delivery of this commitment has helped us to become the leading manager of captive insurance companies in the British Virgin Islands.

Other members of the Belmont Group include Belmont Risk Solutions Limited, a specialist insurance and reinsurance intermediary. Belmont is a proud member of the HLA Global broking network.

 

Contact Information
Simon Owen
Belmont Insurance Management Limited
Tropic Isle Building, 2nd Floor
Nibbs Street, P.O. Box 3443
Road Town, Tortola
British Virgin Islands
Tel: +1 284 494 5800 ext. 287
Fax: +1 284 494 6563
E-mail Simon Owen

For more information and to read our publications, follow these links to our
captive.com summary page
and to the
Belmont Group Home Page

 


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Caledonian Group

Caledonian Insurance Services Limited (CISL) provides the full range of captive management services including captive consultancy, formation and managerial services as well as risk management and risk financing services to companies interested in reaping the rewards of increased risk retention.

CISL benefits from its close association with the Caledonian Group, a well known and respected financial services company headquartered in Cayman, with branches in New York and the Isle of Man. Amongst other financial services the Caledonian Group provides banking and trust and funds administration. This association allows CISL to provide a seamless service drawing on expertise both from its own highly qualified risk management professionals, and a wide range of related professional expertise.

Contact details
Conor Jennings
Managing Director
Caledonian Insurance Services limited
Caledonian House, 69 Dr. Roy’s Drive
P.O. Box 1043 GT
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands

Tel: (345) 914 4875
Fax: (345) 814 4875l
E-mail conor.jennings

For a summary of CISL services and to access our captive articles, visit our Captive.com data sheet
To view CISL's company website, visit www.caledonian.com.

 

 

 

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captive.com llc
22 Summit Farms Road
Southington, CT 06489

Phone: 860-276-9775
Fax: 860-276-9795

CEO: Christina A. Mancini
President: John Salisbury CPCU, ARM

 

Captive.com, llc proudly presents


The Business to Business Risk and Insurance Exchange


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For more info visit our home page captive.com



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Cedar Management and Cedar Consulting Logo
 
Cedar Management Limited
Cedar Consulting LLC

Cedar Management is a management-owned captive manager providing captive management services in Bermuda since 1980.

Excellence in service is our hallmark, which we provide through careful listening, proactive solutions, strong teamwork and a commitment to a long-term partnership.

We provide a full range of captive management services including incorporation, day-to-day management, annual reporting, licensing and filings. Through our affiliated company, Cedar Consulting LLC, we provide alternative risk transfer feasibility studies, and analysis and recommendations on current program structures.

Contact:

Thomas McMahon – President
Telephone – (441) 295-7015
E-mail – tmcmahon@cedar.bm

Michael Larkin – Vice President
Telephone – (441) 295-8015
E-mail – mlarkin@cedar.bm

Or visit our website at
www.cedarmanagement.bm

Cedar Consulting is a management-owned captive consulting firm based in Cleveland, Ohio.

We provide a full spectrum of captive feasibility, company organization and management services to agencies, associations and individual insureds. Our services include current program analysis and recommendations to align captives with overall organization strategic goals.

In concert with our affiliated company, Cedar Management, we provide a full range of captive management services in Bermuda.

 

Contact:

Dennis Silvia - President
Telephone – (440) 264-9992
E-mail – dennis.silvia@cedarconsulting.net

Or visit our website at
www.cedarconsulting.net

 


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Champlain Captive Management Champlain Captive Management
Champlain Captive Management Champlain Captive Management

Since 1983, Champlain Captive Management (CCM) has administered diverse insurance coverage for captive insurance companies. CCM is a Vermont-based, independent captive manager with business in Vermont and other domiciles.

The company provides comprehensive administration services, financial accounting and regulatory compliance. CCM delivers superior captive management services and communication among and between key players. Our services include:

• Pre-feasibility Study
• Application preparation & Licensing
• Financial Accounting Services (GAAP & Statutory)
• Regulatory Compliance
• Administrative Services
• Coordination with other service providers, including legal, actuarial and audit
• Claims Oversight
• Help in finding a fronting or reinsurance placement

For more information, links to our latest captive related articles, and a link to our company website,
visit our Data Sheet at Captive.com

Contact Champlain Captive Management

John Borch
President
E-mail John
802.651.3311 (Direct)
802.734.5900 (Cell)
Mary Richards
Sr. Client Manager
E-mail Mary
802-651-3351(Direct)
802-658-9419 (Fax)


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One Lincoln Centre
5400 L. B. J. Freeway
Suite 1060
Dallas, TX 75240
Phone (972) 866-6815 Fax (972) 866-6801

Contact: Steve McElhiney
Direct Dial (972) 560-0675
E-mail Steve McElhiney

EWI has a professional and experienced staff that has provided risk solutions to client partners for more than 45 years. Its no-nonsense, one-stop risk solutions include risk management, reinsurance, custom insurance solutions, loss control, claims in-take and supervision, database analytics, and advisory services. Our clients include traditional insurance companies, NYSE-listed industrial companies, global manufacturers, captive insurers, risk retention groups, transportation companies and self-insured programs.

With expertise in property and casualty exposures, as well as life, accident, health and benefit structures, we provide a full-range of risk services including reinsurance products, custom insurance solutions and advisory services. EWI works with its client partners worldwide to analyze and manage enterprise risks in a changing world. Insurance and reinsurance placements are transparent and are efficiently executed with the support of timely documentation, risk management, loss control and claims supervision protocols that provide complete risk solutions.

EWI is controlled by Valhi Inc. (NYSE: VHI), a diversified holding company with more than $1 billion in annual revenues. With the financial resources to maintain cutting-edge technology and a quality experienced staff, EWI has earned its standing as a market leader in the design, implementation and maintenance of risk solutions. With an in-depth knowledge of risk and a wide array of global products and services, EWI can develop and implement risk solutions tailored to suit your specific needs – so that you can concentrate on your business.

Please visit our corporate website at www.ewiretx.com


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HSBC Insurance Management (HIM) provides captive management, captive feasibility studies, registration and incorporation of captives, general representation in domiciles all over the world, secretarial, accounting and underwriting support as well as assistance with service provider selection, statistical analysis and liaison with regulators.

HSBC Insurance SPC is a "rent-a-captive' facility licensed and domiciled in the Cayman Islands under the Segregated Portfolio Company legislation. Branches of this company have also been established in Bermuda and Guernsey. We also provide brokerage services in Bermuda through HSBC Insurance Services (Bermuda) Limited including captive fronting and reinsurance and a full array of alternative risk financing products. Full investment, asset arrangement and banking services are available through members of the HSBC Group.

HSBC Holdings plc is one of the world's largest banking and financial services organizations, with major personal, commercial , corporate and investment banking and insurance business operating in the Americas, Asia-Pacific region, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Headquartered in London, the HSBC Group has more than 5.000 offices in 82 countries and territories and over 130,000 employees. At year end December 31, 1999, the Group's assets were $569 billion with pre-tax profit of $7.982 billion.

 

North American Contacts
(including Bermuda and Caribbean):


Harry W Rodgers
Vice President and Director of New Business Development
HSBC Insurance Management (USA)
452 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10018

Phone 212-525-2553
Fax 212-525-2570
Mobile 410-206-9300
Email harry.w.rodgers@us.hsbc.com

Europe
and Asia-Pacific contact:


Chris Charman
Senior Exec. Business Development
HSBC Insurance Management
8 Canada Square,Canary Wharf, London, E14 5HQ, United Kingdom

Phone 44 207 9910270
Fax 44 207 9914640
Mobile 44 07920 543801
Email chris.charman@hsbc.com


To HSBC Home Page More information? Visit our Home Page

 


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ICS logo
Innovative Captive Strategies, Inc.
3001 Westown Parkway
West Des Moines, IA 50266-1321

CONTACT: Daniel Keough, President
PHONE: 888-753-9254
FAX: 515-223-6944
E-MAIL: dkeough@yourcaptive.com
WEBSITE: www.yourcaptive.com


Innovative Captive Strategies, Inc., (ICS) is a company of captive insurance specialists dedicated to creating, implementing, and managing strategic innovative solutions that protect your company’s assets and advance your business toward its goals. At ICS, we specialize in putting you in control of your insurance destiny through the formation and management of a customized captive insurance company that maximizes the advantages of alternative risk-financing solutions.

In an ICS captive insurance company, all stakeholders share in the success. We provide services that directly benefit your company and your captive company’s partners. Our captive services include:

  • Group captive development
  • Captive company management
  • Benchmarking services
  • Loss history analysis
  • Risk control workshops
  • Best-practices forums
  • Service-quality surveys
  • Third-party administration
  • Loss reduction programs
  • Annual loss control standards
  • Monitored claim reporting
  • Domicile management

Visit our website at www.yourcaptive.com

 


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Liberty Mutual Alternative Markets Liberty Mutual
Over 90 years of success in traditional insurance markets. 
Alternative Markets

Shared Risk.  Greater Control.
 
 


In today's unsteady business environment, an alternative structure built on the stability of a company like Liberty Mutual is what you need.

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Single Parent and Group Captives

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Captive Management Services

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Structured Products for Healthcare and Construction

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Program Business for Workers Compensation

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Excess Workers Compensation for Self-Insured Buyers

Liberty Mutual www.lmalternativemarkets.com
Toll Free: 866-355-1983

 

 


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Risk Services

Risk Services, LLC is an independent group of companies providing the full spectrum of services necessary for the structure, formation, licensure, management and regulatory compliance of captive insurance companies and other alternative risk transfer (ART) vehicles. We have captive management operations in Bermuda, Vermont, District of Columbia, South Carolina, Arizona, Nevada and Hawaii.

Services provided by our experienced principals and staff include:

  • Captive Structure and Formation
  • Captive Management
  • Reinsurance and Fronting Negotiations
  • Program Administration & Management
  • Underwriting and Policyholder Servicing
  • Claims Handling & Loss Control
  • Marketing
  • Regulatory Compliance & Legal Assistance
  • Financial Management & Insurance Accounting
  • ART Consulting

Contact us:

Michael T. Rogers, FCA, CPCU
Telephone: 1-800-226-0793 #152
E-mail: mrogers@pboa.com

For additional information on Risk Services, LLC, please visit our Captive.com Home Page at www.captive.com/service/RiskServices or the Risk Services website at www.riskservcos.com.




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Contact:
Karin Landry
Managing Partner
Spring Consulting Group, LLC
84 State Street
Suite 500
Boston, MA 02109

Ph: 617-589-0930
Fax: 617-589-0931
E-mail Karin Landry

Spring Consulting Group, LLC, based in Boston, provides strategic consulting services to insurance and financial services organizations throughout the world.

Spring’s executives have extensive industry and consulting expertise in areas such as life insurance, disability and absence management, health care and retirement services.

In addition to advising the insurance and financial services industry, the firm provides consulting directly to employers on the use of captive insurance facilities for employee benefits. Spring assists clients in all phases of strategy assessment, development, and implementation.

Click here to find out more.

 

 


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THE TAFT COMPANIES®

901 Dulaney Valley Rd, Ste 610
Towson, MD 21204

P (877) 587-1763
F (877) 224-0876

www.taftcos.com

dick@taftcos.com

Practicing the
ART of
Imagination®



The Taft Companies have been designing and implementing Alternative Risk Strategies for clients worldwide for over 20 years, first in Bermuda, and now also in the United States in South Carolina, Washington, DC and Montana.

  • Consulting

  • Captive Formation and Management

  • Bermuda Markets Access




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To Towers Perrin Website


 

The Tillinghast business of Towers Perrin can help you take risk out of your business. We have extensive experience in the design and review of captives and other alternative risk financing vehicles. Our actuaries and risk management consultants have helped hundreds of clients study the feasibility of a captive, and start and operate captives and other related entities. We have also helped numerous clients decide against the formation of a captive when it was not an appropriate vehicle, or to terminate a captive that was no longer useful.

Tillinghast captive consulting services include:

  • Feasibility studies
  • Implementation assistance
  • Ongoing actuarial support and strategic planning.

We'd like to be your partner in managing risk. You can rely on our deep experience and extraordinary commitment to clients.

For more information, please contact Jim Swanke at 952-842-5728.

You may also contact your local strategic risk financing consultant at the Tillinghast office nearest you.

Read our report on successful captive management >

Visit our Web site >


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Utah Captive Insurance Managers LLC.

136 Herber, Suite 204
P.O. Box 339
Park City, UT. 84060

Phone: (800) 921-0155
Fax: (949) 727-4770

Email: fturner@utahcaptiveinsurance.com

 

A recent study by the Corporation for Enterprise Development ranked Utah among the top eight states in terms of economic performance, business vitality, and development. Utah has the best captive legislation in the United States.

Utah offers a business friendly working relationship with its regulators, and is easily accessible from any part of the United States.

Why not form your captive in Utah which has the lowest tax rate, most favorable captive legislation, the best regulators in the United States and the best snow in the World? Look into the Utah Advantage.

Since 1997, the Utah Captive Team has provided the Captive Insurance needs for its clients including Feasibility Analysis, Formation, Implementation and Management of captives.

Visit us at: http://www.activecaptive.com/utah_captive.shtml


 


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