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Group Captives
Knowledge. Experience. Execution.

Zurich Group Captives is the market leader in the growing captive marketplace. We are the insurer for three of the industry's top 10 largest policyholder-owned alternative risk facilities, according to Business Insurance. We operate with a holistic, integrated team approach that goes beyond simply offering risk transfer insurance solutions. The Zurich team includes specialists in underwriting, claims, marketing, risk engineering, actuarial, finance, policy issuance and regulatory compliance. We deliver the intellectual capital and infrastructure required to create solutions that meet the distinctive and complex needs of a group captive.

 

Integrated team

Group Captives delivers a broad array of services -- not only to effectively manage and add value to your program, but to help you reduce your total cost of risk. Coordinating all account management (underwriting, actuarial, financial, risk engineering*, policy management and claim services) through one client leader streamlines the process and helps you achieve greater efficiency.


Capabilities

Our customized captives programs deliver a full range of coverages and services, with the flexibility and creativity required by today's changing risk management challenges.

Capabilities include:

  • Fronting
  • Risk transfer and/or reinsurance
  • Access to rent- a-captive and other reinsurance facilities
  • Access to consulting services
  • Claims administration
  • Risk engineering*

We target an extensive range of industry segments with captive minimum first-year premium of $3 to $5 million, supported by an appropriate plan to grow the business. In addition to heterogeneous captives, we specialize in construction,transportation practice, temporary staffing and manufacturing.

Additional options include:

  • Casualty lines including workers’ compensation, general liability, auto liability, as well as property solutions
  • Custom-designed structure including excess of loss, quota share and stop loss coverage to meet your risk appetite
  • The ability to unbundle our claims services with an approved third-party administrator – offering even more flexibility to your unique situation.
  • Our flexible backroom enables us to work with concurrent and nonconcurrent policy attaching agreements.
  • Customized solutions for "non-captive" lines of business designed to help our distributors and customers make the movement to a captive solution as easy as possible.

Distribution

Zurich offers you the ability to access us in a variety of ways. We welcome doing business with all captive consultants, independent agents, global brokers and managing general agents. If you are focused on this business and can bring captives industry expertise to the table, we want to help you provide your clients with the best possible captive products and services.

 

Contacts:

Group member owned

Rod DeMaso
Phone: 847-605-4281
Fax: 847-605-7605
rod.demaso@zurichna.com

Association, agency and MGA owned; SPC facilities

Jill Bryant
847-605-2585
847-605-7605
jill.bryant@zurichna.com

Construction specialty

Larry Klein
847-605-4213
847-605-7605
larry.klein@zurichna.com

Transportation specialty

Catherine Komaromy
847-330-1168
847-605-7605
catherine.komaromy@zurichna.com

Property captives and captive support

Barry Wasson
847-605-6961
847-605-6403
barry.wasson@zurichna.com

For more information, visit the Zurich North America Web site at www.zurichna.com.

*Risk engineering services are provided by Zurich Services Corporation

This is intended as a general description of certain types of insurance and services available to qualified customers through the companies of Zurich in North America. Your policy is the contract that specifically and fully describes your coverage. The description of the policy provisions gives a broad overview of coverages does not revise or amend the policy.

Insurance coverages underwritten by member companies of Zurich North America, including Zurich American Insurance Company. Certain coverages not available in all states. Some coverages may be written on a non-admitted basis through surplus lines brokers.

 

 

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