Richard Cutcher

The Vermont Captive Insurance Association (VCIA) has announced Ian Davis, senior vice president of captive insurance at M&T Bank, will succeed Kevin Mead as president of the Association from 1 September.

Involving a captive in an international programme can optimise structure and reduce the total cost of risk, if executed effectively, according to Jelto Borgmann and Kerstin Kader, of HDI Global.

In this GCP Short, produced in partnership with HDI Global, and we discuss international programmes and the important role captives play in facilitating them.

A flurry of captive formations from the healthcare sector has 2025 on track for another strong to match or beat new licence numbers of recent years.

Propriety Insurance Advisors has formed a strategic partnership with Grid151 in an attempt to accelerate growth in title insurance uptake among real estate captives.

Credit rating agency Fitch is warning the UK government that a new, proportionate captive regime could lead to “growing pockets of risk” accumulating “outside the core regulated insurance sector” and increasing systemic risk.

The group captive concept has become so popular in the United States that more brokers and sub brokers are having to set up their own alternative offering to avoid being left behind, according to Rob Collins, captive segment leader and managing director at Guy Carpenter.

Guy Carpenter's Rob Collins and Linda Johnson, of Old Republic Risk Management, discuss the why, what and how of the group captive surge in the United States.