Captives offer customized solutions, but quantifying cyber risk is a challenge.

A $1 billion bridge rebuild is boosted by new surety claims and liquidity elements. 

Potential legislation in Congress would allow risk retention groups to write property. Here are the arguments for and against.

Using captives for business interruption coverage is still rare but interest is growing.

They comprise fully one-quarter of all captives domiciled in Vermont.

The success of the captive industry in Vermont is the result of a rare, collaborative relationship between the public and private sectors. 

A fully integrated captive brings risk management to the multiple arms of an organization.

Proposed changes in the law could ‘kill the small captive industry entirely.’

Buoyed by few catastrophes in 2014, insurers and investors are increasingly turning to alternative products. 

Risk financing techniques may offer benefits to companies dealing with environmental liabilities.

The mutual brings more affordable coverage and comprehensive risk management to a group of technical colleges.

The captive’s health care parent has a long history in alternative risk transfer.

These five domicile stars can help risk managers learn about forming a captive in Vermont.

A softening market worries reinsurers, but they remain optimistic about growth.

The industry makes a distinction between legitimate and illegitimate uses.

Forces are driving inevitable change in the workers’ comp landscape in 2014.

Events of 2013 point the way forward next year. Buzz words: cyber, health care and property.

Insurance captives and crisis communications can go hand-in-hand.

Captives may yet play a role in managing health care risk, despite the advent of reform.

Since 1990, workers’ comp losses retained through large deductibles have grown quickly.