Tag: risk management

56 articles

Stop-Loss Insurance: Protect Against Catastrophic Losses

Stop-loss insurance protects self-funded employers against catastrophic claims. Learn how adding a captive insurance layer completes your risk management program.

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Formal or Informal?

Business owners insure risks formally or informally. Captive insurance lets you formally insure enterprise risks, turning a disadvantage into a significant advantage.

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Flying and Captive Compliance

A Cessna cockpit ride reveals striking parallels between aviation safety checks and captive insurance compliance — discipline, preparation, and boundaries matter.

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Captive Insurance for Private Equity: An Underutilized Advantage

Private equity firms paying $10-20 million in annual premiums to third parties are underutilizing captive insurance. Here are the top reasons why and how to fix it.

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A Better Way to Risk Management Through Captive Insurance

Captive insurance offers business owners a formal way to insure exposures they're already self-insuring, creating operational, financial, and structural advantages.

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Captive Insurance: The Solution

Business owners are always looking for solutions. Captive insurance is an advanced yet accessible solution offering control, flexibility, and wealth accumulation.

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Timing and Sequencing

Like frosting a cake before baking it, getting the order wrong in captive insurance can derail results. Learn why timing and sequencing matter for your captive.

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Business Volatility: Insure What Keeps You Up at Night

Market swings, supply chain disruptions, regulatory changes — captive insurance lets you cover the risks that keep you up at night.

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A Better Way to Stop-Loss: Captive Insurance for Self-Funded Plans

Self-funded employers can reserve for potential claims inside their own captive insurance company, creating a new profit center and gaining control.

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The Glossary of Captive Insurance

Essential captive insurance terminology explained: from capitalization and domicile to 831(a), 831(b), risk distribution, and series captives.

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Captive Change

The captive insurance industry has evolved to better serve business owners with increased premium limits, more coverage lines, and greater availability for all sizes.

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What's Your Objection?

Is your objection to captive insurance real or false? Too many false objections prevent business owners from exploring a powerful risk management opportunity.

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Volleyball and Captives #2: Become That Player

Like a young athlete growing into a star role through physics, work, time, intent, and coaching, your business can become stronger with captive insurance.

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Volleyball and Captives: Lessons from the Court

Eight hours of volleyball reveals powerful parallels to captive insurance: unforced errors, playing within the lines, feeding your best asset, and building momentum.

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Volleyball and Captives #3: Lessons from AAU Nationals

From experience and teamwork to coaching and pressure, the principles of competitive volleyball mirror what it takes to succeed with captive insurance.

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It Depends?

"It depends" isn't avoidance — it means every captive insurance answer is unique to your business. Data-driven, personalized answers lead to the best decisions.

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Fruit Cocktail!

Like a great fruit cocktail, captive insurance is versatile and customizable. No two captive insurance companies are the same — each is designed with purpose and intent.

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The Search for the Forward Thinker

Forward thinkers turn risk management into wealth management. For business owners, embracing new opportunities like captive insurance is the key to continued growth.

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Data In, Dollars Out: The Business Intake Process for Captive Insurance

A simple business intake form takes two minutes to complete and provides the data needed to evaluate whether your company qualifies for captive insurance.

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Control: Why Business Owners Need Captive Insurance

Captive insurance gives business owners greater control over risk management, claims, surplus assets, and cash flow. Control is why owners became owners.

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Commitment: The Foundation of Captive Insurance Success

Captive insurance requires commitment — commitment to learn, to engage, and to follow through. Discover why commitment is the foundation of every successful captive.

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COVID-19 Is Interrupting Your Business: Are You Insured?

Every business is affected by COVID-19. Captive insurance provides business interruption coverage for low frequency, high severity events like pandemics.

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Problem or Solution?

Business owners are always looking for solutions. Captive insurance is an advanced yet powerful solution that provides control, flexibility, and wealth accumulation.

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Foresight Keeps Things in Perspective

COVID-19 changed our perspective on business risk. Foresight and captive insurance help business owners prepare for uncertainty and protect against catastrophic loss.

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Owning Your Own Insurance Company

As a business owner paying hundreds of thousands in premiums, what if you paid them to YOUR own insurance company? Learn how an 831b captive insurance company works.

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There Are Options to Insure Your Business

Options, choices, opportunities. Profitable businesses have powerful alternatives to traditional insurance, including captive insurance that creates greater control.

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Not All Cars or Captives Are the Same

Just as cars serve different purposes, captive insurance companies come in many forms. Learn how different types of captives serve different needs for business owners.

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Lessons Learned from Captive in the Wilderness

Five days of flying and fishing in the wilderness revealed powerful parallels to captive insurance: let the captive do the work, manage risk, and embrace flexibility.

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Specific Captive Risk: What Does Insurance Really Look Like?

From loss of key customers to reputational risk, over 75 exposures can be covered through captive insurance. Learn about broad and specific risks your captive can insure.

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Aggressive Is Not Risky!

Investors often mistake aggression for risk. Like a well-timed play-action pass, captive insurance is an aggressive strategy that actually reduces risk.

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What's the Risk?

Business owners face unique risks every day. Captive insurance lets you stop cursing insurance companies and become one, turning premiums into profit.

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What Keeps You Up at Night?

From data breaches and key employee loss to supply chain interruption and pandemic risk, your captive insurance company can formally insure the risks keeping you awake.

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What's the Risk?

Business owners face risks every day. Don't curse the insurance companies — become one. Captive insurance is the antithesis of risk for qualified businesses.

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Weddings and Captive Insurance

From courtship and commitment to the wedding party and lasting value, the parallels between weddings and captive insurance are surprisingly powerful.

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How Much $ Gets Your Attention?

For business owners with 200+ employees or revenues above $50mm, captive insurance could mean $1,000,000 or more in savings.

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Risk Management Is Wealth Management

Managing risk isn't just about avoiding loss — it's one of the most powerful wealth-building strategies available to business owners.

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Fishing for a Better Way?

Sometimes the best business solutions are found outside the boardroom. Captive insurance offers a better way to manage risk and build wealth.

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Three Categories of Coverage in Your Captive

Understanding the three main categories of coverage available through captive insurance helps business owners maximize their program.

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Is Your Iceberg Melting?

Inspired by Dr. John Kotter's fable about penguins facing change, captive insurance provides protection for business cracks and leaks in every market condition.

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How to Take on More Risk!

Don't take on more risk — transfer it to YOUR insurance company. Understand the three types of insurance and how captive insurance formally protects your business.

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Decision Making: What Great Quarterbacks and Business Owners Share

The best decision makers in business see things unfolding before they happen. Captive insurance is an opportunity to showcase these skills and create future value.

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Captive Insurance Is No Longer a Secret

Captive insurance was never truly a secret, but it remains unfamiliar to most business owners. Learn why this powerful risk management tool is now more accessible.

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Take Action: Three Reasons to Create Your Captive Insurance Company

Action breeds confidence and courage. Protect your company, create a profit center, and build your solution through captive insurance ownership.

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A Better Way: Taking Action on Captive Insurance

Implementing a captive insurance company requires action. Education, study, preparation, and feasibility analysis are the steps to achieving a better way.

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A Better Way to Solve Your Objectives with Captive Insurance

Captive insurance is often the solution to your business objectives, preserving capital, creating surplus, and generating wealth while managing risk.

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There's a Better Way: Captive Insurance for Business Owners

Captive insurance allows business owners to formally insure exposures by creating their own insurance company, turning premiums into retained assets.

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Security Through Captive Insurance

Financial security means different things to different people. Captive insurance provides formal protection, profitability, and efficiency for business owners seeking security.

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Risk Transfer and Distribution

Risk transfer and distribution are fundamental components of every insurance policy. Learn how captive insurance companies meet these critical requirements.

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Risk and Reward: A Third, More Powerful Opportunity

Traditional risk-reward is an either/or proposition. Captive insurance offers a third option: take less risk and gain a bigger reward through owned insurance coverage.

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Reps and Warranties: Protect Your Transaction

With M&A deal volumes surpassing $2.3 trillion and 50-90% of deals failing, reps and warranty insurance through your captive protects your side of the transaction.

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Four Lessons Learned While Captive in Grand Junction

Good people, time well spent, coaching, and managing expectations — four lessons from Grand Junction that apply directly to captive insurance success.

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Today's Greatest Risk: Technology

Technology drives every business today, but data breaches, system failures, and cyber attacks are real threats. Captive insurance can cover over 50 technology-related risks.

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Self-Funded: Is It Really Self-Funded?

Don't confuse informal self-insurance with formal captive insurance. Formal self-insurance is regulated, capitalized, and protected — not scary at all.

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Implement the Change

Change is hard, but necessary for growth. From football formations to risk management, those who embrace better strategies win. Captive insurance is that change.

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What's Your Liability?

Your business faces common and uncommon liabilities. Transferring them to your own captive insurance company creates immediate and long-term benefits.

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Important and Urgent!

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough on what is important. Owning your own captive insurance company is both important and urgent.

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