London-based Verve Risk Services new ‘Micro-Captive Defender’ product will initially provide a $250,000 limit to 831(b) captives embroiled in legal disputes with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the United States.

Gallagher, through its Artex subsidiary, has launched an alternative risk management solution in the Abu Dhabi Global Market.

Macquarie Insurance Facility has launched a rent-a-captive insurance solution for property and casualty related risks.

Richard hosts an exclusive Hawaii captive owner roundtable, featuring HCIC board members David Beyer, Elaine Ziemba and Matt Reece.

MIJS Captive Management has partnered with commercial property and casualty (P&C) underwriters, I–RE, to enable MIJS’s “high performing” mid-market clients to take on some of their own risk in a standalone captive. 

AM Best has affirmed the financial strength rating of A- (excellent) and the long-term issuer credit rating of “a-” (excellent) of Micronesia-domiciled Marble Reinsurance Corporation (Marble Re). The outlook of these credit ratings is stable.

HDI Global has reorganised its Paris-based alternative risk transfer (ART) unit, HDI Enablers, with Eric Joly-Pottuz taking over the management of the department from Etienne de Varax.

Extensive claims data is signalling increasing instances of cancer diagnosis and a rising cost per claim, while captive strategies give employers more options to intervene and respond.