Monday, October 2, 2017

Commissioner Katharine Wade welcomes Keystone Indemnity to Connecticut

On September 28, Commissioner Katharine Wade gave a formal welcome to a new captive, Keystone Indemnity Company, Ltd., the wholly-owned subsidiary of Masonicare of Wallingford, Connecticut. We welcome Keystone...the first Connecticut captive underwriting medical professional liability!

From left to right: Tracey LeMay, Chief Administrative Officer of Masonicare; JP Venoit, President and CEO of Masonicare; Robert Polito, Board Chair, Masonicare; Commissioner Katharine Wade; Michael Maglaras, Principal, Michael Maglaras & Company; Janet Grace, Program Manager, Captive Division; Christopher Gallo, Financial Examiner, Captive Division






Tuesday, September 26, 2017

The State of the State: Connecticut’s Evolving Captive Marketplace

So what’s the Connecticut advantage?
If you own a captive, why would you want Connecticut to be your domicile?...And if you’re thinking about forming one, why has Connecticut been labeled “the thinking person’s domicile”?
This is a good time to register for the Connecticut Captive Insurance Association's 2017 Collaborative on Captive Insurance, because the Collaborative will be an interactive and open forum on this subject, and attendees will get cutting edge information about:
How Katharine Wade, Insurance Commissioner, and Catharine Smith, Commissioner of the Department of Economic and Community Development, support the captive marketplace in Connecticut
How the captive law has recently been improved and updated to make it one of the best in the country
How our legislators and our governor are solidly behind the growth of the captive industry and how our professionals are the best qualified in the nation to lead the captive movement

Click here to register for the CCIA 2017 Collaborative on Captive Insurance; or here to learn more about how you can become part of the dialogue.

Monday, September 18, 2017

Disrupting the Market: The InsurTech Captive Revolution

Captive owners are already experts in stripping the insurance transaction of all unnecessary expense.
When we talk about “market disruption,” captives have been on the forefront of that for thirty years.
However, when it comes to the innovative ways to change even more about the way insurance products and services are delivered...namely, the InsurTech Revolution...captives are expected to be on the forefront of this innovation, revolution, and change.
This is a good time to register for the Connecticut Captive Insurance Association 2017 Collaborative on Captive Insurance, because the Collaborative will be an interactive and open forum on this subject, and attendees will get cutting edge information about:
What is InsurTech?  How does it work?  How is it expected to change the future?  
What can captives learn from commercial insurance market innovation and investment initiatives?  
What will the captive insurance transaction of the future look like, and how will captive owners meet the internal challenges of managing risk in a world dominated by "virtual insurance"? 
Click here to register for the CCIA 2017 Collaborative on Captive Insurance; or here to learn more about how you can become part of the dialogue.

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Cyber Liability in Captives: Why Worry?

At the end of 2016, the cyber security insurance marketplace had underwritten $1.3 billion of direct written premiums. We all recognize that the world is an increasingly dangerous place...no debate there...but at the end of 2016, a different kind of debate had already begun.
People began asking the obvious question: “Can I write cyber security coverage through my captive, and, if so, how?”
This is a good time to register for the Connecticut Captive Insurance Association's 2017 Collaborative on Captive Insurance because the Collaborative will be an interactive and open forum on this subject, and attendees will get cutting edge information about: 
The current cyber security marketplace, how it functions, and what the underwriting challenges are  
Expert perspective on the growing and challenging international cyber threat  
Whether this is a good time for captives to augment available capacity in a marketplace already challenged to meet demand
Click here to register for the CCIA 2017 Collaborative on Captive Insurance; or here to learn more about how you can become part of the dialogue.

Friday, September 8, 2017

Redefining Workers’ Compensation in Captives

At this year's Connecticut Captive Insurance Association's 2017 Collaborative on Captive Insurance, you'll have an opportunity to engage with insurance professionals and regulators on the challenging idea of workers' compensation in captives.  
This will be about a lot more than running your deductible reimbursement program through a captive...or the captive reinsurance of fronted workers’ compensation programs.
This is a good time to register for the CCIA 2017 Collaborative on Captive Insurance, because the Collaborative will be an interactive and open forum on this subject, and attendees will get cutting edge information about:
Whether captives should be permitted to write statutory benefit coverage in a non-admitted environment
The ideal partnership between captives and the commercial workers' compensation underwriting community
Ideas about how to get it right when it comes to the integration of on or off the job disability
Click here to register for the CCIA 2017 Collaborative on Captive Insurance; or here to learn more about how you can become part of the dialogue.

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

The Small Business Captive Revolution

It seems these days that the news just keeps getting worse about 831(b) captives.
We at the Connecticut Captive Insurance Association think it’s time to re-evaluate how these captives, originally designed perfectly for small business use, can be re-engineered and implemented to serve the real purpose of risk transfer.
This is a good time to register for the CCIA 2017 Collaborative on Captive Insurance, because the Collaborative will be an interactive and open forum on this subject, and attendees will get cutting edge information about:

- How to form these captives to accomplish the real purpose of risk transfer

- What regulators will look for in Small Business Captive applications and business plans

- How Small Business Captives can be used to improve the functioning of your insurance portfolio and allow you to assume risk in a controlled and affordable way

Click here to register for the CCIA 2017 Collaborative on Captive Insurance; or here to learn more about how you can become part of the dialogue.

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Come Home to Connecticut

It’s no secret to those of us in the captive industry that health care liability captives make up a major part of the current captive assets and liabilities throughout most of the major domiciles. In Vermont and Cayman, health care liability underwriting programs very much dominate the scene in terms of sheer numbers.
So it’s with great pride that I announce the August 1, 2017 re-domestication of Keystone Indemnity Company, Ltd. to Connecticut.
Any captive formation in Connecticut is an important one to all of us at CCIA...but a mature captive underwriting medical professional liability coverage for Connecticut’s preeminent senior care services organization, Masonicare, is a real coup...and we can be justly proud.
Now, the next question seems to be a simple one to me: who will be next? Which one of the many captives owned by Connecticut-based health care facilities and physician practices will “come home” to Connecticut?
Jon-Paul Venoit, the President of Masonicare (the parent of Keystone), specifically cited “the special energy” of the captive movement in Connecticut...and he wanted his captive to be a part of that.
So, to the many Connecticut health care facility parents of captives in Cayman, and Vermont, and elsewhere...I invite them to bring their captives “home.” The special energy of the captive movement in Connecticut, and the way in which our regulators have created an environment encouraging re-domestication, has to be seen to be believed.
- Michael Maglaras, Chairman, Connecticut Captive Insurance Association