Preliminary Feasibility Study

Although reducing insurance costs through the lower cost structures of captives is attractive to business owners, it is important for a business owner to know if a captive is the right option for them. We will perform an analysis of your safety and risk management practices, as well as a claims analysis, to determine if the time is right for you to look at a captive. We can also determine if a group or association insurance captive, or your own single parent captive, makes the most financial sense for you to pursue.

Preliminary Financial Analysis

Entering a captive can be financially advantageous, but there is an initial cost of starting your own captive, or entering a group captive. We will review those costs as well as assess the impact of the collateral requirements on your financial picture. This includes potential impacts on cash flow, loans, or lines of credits. Our accounting and CPA professionals can review your current financials, and financial situation, and help advise you in your decision, and even make recommendations to help structure your financials before submitting for captive review.

Preparation of Captive Submission

Qualifying for a captive and establishing your premiums and reinsurance costs requires a much more extensive compilation of data about your business, your operational and claims history, and financial picture. We will walk you through this process and help gather all of the required data; we will then compile it into formats that the captive managers will want so that they can analyze your submission to join their captive.

Captive Manager/Program Selection

With over 7,000 captives, over 1,000 captive managers, and hundreds of group captives, finding or creating the right captive program and choosing the right captive manager is important for both the protection and financial success of your business and your captive. In addition to our own captive domiciled facility and captive manager, we have access to dozens of captive programs and managers that can best meet your needs.

Consultation on Captive Ownership

Understanding who should own your captive can impact who has the financial responsibility and benefit of the captive, such as receiving dividends from the captive and their taxable impact. Understanding your goals, whether business, individual, or even your estate, will need to be considered when determining who should own your captive or captive shares. Our captive experts, and accounting and CPA professionals can advise you as you make this important decision.

Claims Advocacy

Ultimately, your claims will determine the success of your captive performance. Helping to minimize the cost of your claims will be crucial to reducing how much is paid out and increasing the profitability of your program. Our deep team of over a dozen seasoned claims professionals will be your advocate and work to make sure any claim is managed, settled, or even denied, in your best interest.

Safety & Risk Management

You already have a significant focus on safety and quality, otherwise you would probably not be interested in insurance captives. However, identifying risks in your business, and determining the best ways to reduce or eliminate those risks will help achieve greater captive success. Our team of over a dozen Certified Safety Professionals, Certified Risk Managers, and Certified WorkComp Advisors can help your team build and implement custom risk management programs to reduce your total cost of risk and improve your captive profitability.

Human Resources

The success of any business starts with its employees. Hiring, managing, training, and retaining the best employees are obviously critical. Our deep team of human resource specialists, including a human resources attorney, is there to support your team so they have the right information, make the right decisions, and implement the best programs.

Benchmarking Captive Performance

Just because you are in a captive, does not mean that you do not need to worry about how things are going, how things are performing. Assessing how well your captive is performing, especially in a group or association captive is critical. We will work with you to assess how well your captive cost structure is performing against the traditional marketplace, help you to understand and determine if there other members of your captive that are overly negatively affecting your results, and if the captive cost structure is appropriate.

Benchmarking Your Business’ Performance

As the cost of your captive insurance program is directly affective by your claim costs, it is important to manage your captive, not by the end results (your claims) but by a complete matrix of criteria that are leading indicators of potential problems that could lead to claims. Criteria such as injury frequency, near misses, rejected product counts, turnover, peer observation reports, and out of service vehicles, are just a few of the leading indicators with point to potential larger issues. Our deep risk management and safety professionals will help you to build the matrix of criteria to benchmark yourself against, as well as structure the means to test and measure them.

Insurance Program Design

Even with insurance captives, you buy insurance to pay your unexpected claims. Since it’s common for business owners to mix business assets, property, vehicles and investments with personal ones, oversights often occur under traditional insurance arrangements. In addition to our Risk Assessment helping you to become a safer, more productive and profitable company, the assessment provides us with unique insight into your operations, and both your business and personal world. Through our Coverage Analysis, we will make sure that your business and personal insurance protection meets your needs.

Captive Audits

If you are already in a single parent captive, or group or association captive, we can perform a deep analysis of your captive and your overall safety performance. Using benchmarks, we can help you determine if the captive is actually benefiting you or not, and if there are other factors that need to be addressed to help you to improve your insurance captive performance.