What are the benefits of captives?

A captive insurance company is a bona fide licensed (re)insurance company owned by a non-insurance company, which insures or reinsures the risks of its parent and/or its subsidiaries. Simply put: It is a formalized mechanism to finance self-insured risks.

Find out why Corporates are increasingly turning to captives to help solve problems in finding insurance cover for emerging and difficult risks.

How captives can support a risk manager

Balance risk and risk appetite

Build surplus

Address requirements in different jurisdictions

Track underwriting performance

Improve control of losses

Provide necessary evidence of coverage

Manage insurance market volatility

Cover hard-to-insure risks

Simplify the loss experience for different business units

As a risk management tool for self-insured retentions

Lower the total cost of risk (increased market resilience)

Provides access to capital and reinsurance markets

Captive fronting services deliver insurance program design and management in many different jurisdictions around the world on a multi-line, multi-year basis.

You benefit from a single point of contact who manages an experienced team dedicated to your account.

Captive fronting services create an efficient global insurance program, ensuring compliant, tailor-made wordings, and delivering appropriate control of the type and level or risks covered.

Fronting arrangements allow captives to comply with financial responsibility laws imposed by different jurisdictions that require evidence of coverage by an admitted insurer.

All the required filings and paperwork can be handled by a captive fronter, including claims, engineering and risk control, and issuance of certificates of insurance.

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What are the benefits of captives?

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