In this engaging session, industry experts will explore how artificial intelligence (AI) and digital transformation are reshaping the landscape of captive insurance. Attendees will gain insights into the latest technological advancements and their implications from regulatory expectations to operations to client offerings within captive organizations. The discussion will highlight real-world examples of successful AI integration, the challenges faced during digital transformation, and best practices for navigating this evolving environment.

Following this presentation, audience members will gain insights on how AI and digital innovations are transforming the captive insurance industry, with practical strategies for implementation, overcoming challenges, and real-world examples of success.

The age old question, why buy insurance if I’m not gonna have any losses?  Well…there are obvious considerations.  Is there a regulatory reason, contract compliance, or the boss just said “buy it”. This session explores the many reasons to buy, or not, insurance and uses a filter rational to produce an outcome.  Captives are then an integral tool in aiding in these decision and providing solutions when markets cannot.

Following this presentation, audience members will have gained a foundation to logically evaluate if insurance purchasing is needed, be able to identify how risk tolerance impacts buying/retain decisions, and understanding of how a captive plays an integral role in program structure.

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Step into our vibrant Social Café in the Expo Hall, where you can relax, explore exciting exhibits, connect with industry leaders, and enjoy a variety of refreshing drinks and snacks—perfect for networking and recharging!

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Expanding the usage of a captive program can come soon after formation or long into the captive journey. In either case, how a captive is expanded should be a strategic discussion and well-thought-out timeline.  This session will explore the thought process and timeline for adding, and not adding, certain lines of coverage, and the various discussions that place throughout the process.

Following this presentation, audience members will understand how to add, remove, or adjust additional lines of coverages into their captive, includes limit adjustments, coverage definitions, coverage dates, and funding levels. Attendees will also learn how to facilitate internal discussions while understanding the team approach and financial decisions need prior to implementation.

Attendees are invited to grab lunch and join a roundtable topic of interest. Halfway through lunch, attendees will be given the option to switch topics or continue with their current topic. 

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In this session attendees will hear about trending captive uses from a panel of captive owners and their strategic use of captives in the last 5 years.

Following this presentation, audience members will be able to think strategically about their own captive or a captive they are planning on forming and building over the next several years.

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Join the afternoon Ice Cream Social Café in the Expo Hall, where you can reinvigorate, explore exhibits, connect with industry leaders, and enjoy a variety of refreshing drinks, snacks, and ice cream—perfect for networking and recharging!

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The session will focus on various topics in the indirect tax space that impact captive insurance companies and their owners (e.g. Self Procurement Tax, Excise Tax, State and Local Tax, Premium Tax, etc.).  The speakers will cover technical merits, types of applicable structures, consideration points for captives, owners and captive managers, and will talk about developments and war stories.

Following this presentation, audience members will be able to identify potentially applicable non-federal tax considerations, understand what needs to be considered during feasibility or health check process, and assess steps needed to confirm exposure.

This session promises a thrilling case study of a simple, well-intentioned Fortune 500 company’s use of analytics, faced with the daunting headwinds of a complex market and, dare we say, intimidating actuarial output! 

This riveting tale will address existential questions like: how can captive leadership make critical decisions amidst a turbulent marketplace? How will I ever understand simple takeaways from complex actuarial analyses? And most importantly, will the captive survive the storm? 

Hold onto your popcorn as we work through how the company leverages analytics in its front-end decision making in selecting optimal retentions, considering the amount of capital at play. Then, get ready to dive into how the captive monitored its performance throughout- and post-COVID, leveraging the actuarial report and monthly monitoring of underlying trends by key cost driver category (e.g., cause of loss and region-specific metrics). Then, a scary twist awaits us as we end by taking on the simple task of… allocating property insurance costs! Oh no – not so simple!

Following this presentation, audience members will be able to understand the trade-off of captive retention options, and how the cost of capital can be quantified, how a company severely impacted by COVID and recent litigation reform monitors cost drivers monthly, and how these results interact with actuarial estimates for the captive, and be able to hink holistically about all options related to allocating costs associated with low-frequency/high-severity lines like property, while balancing YOY stability and incentivizing safety.

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Research shows that 5% of employees within an employer’s population are responsible for 50% or more of health-related expenses. Identification and engagement in clinical programs with this 5% risk group is critical to reducing the overall cost and risk of a captive population.   

In this session, we will explore the successes that one group medical stop loss captive had in achieving reduction in overall healthcare costs while improving employee health outcomes as a result of their innovative strategy.

Following this presentation, audience members will be enabled employers to scale their purchasing power, better control healthcare expenditures, maintain robust benefits and attract/retain top talent.

This session will discuss US and foreign international tax issues facing both tax exempt and non-tax exempt captives domiciled offshore. Included in the discussion will be qualification as an insurance company, treatment of non-insurance transactions/entities, the implications of CFC and PFIC status, the approach to calculating UBTI and subpart F income, the Federal Excise Tax, Section 953(d) domestication elections, US trade or business and withholding tax issues and the implications of reinsurance. We will also touch on the application of the new Bermuda corporate income tax and Pillar 2. The presentation will walk through each of those items from the perspective of a captive owned by a for-profit enterprise and a tax-exempt entity, including structuring, accounting, documentation and operational considerations.

Following this presentation, audience members will be able to understand the tax implications of owning and operating an offshore captive, differentiate between the structuring considerations when a captive is owned by a tax-exempt vs. for-profits corporation, and understand recent tax developments happening outside the US and their impacts on captives.

One of the hardest parts about starting a captive as the company’s risk advisor is explaining it. The C-Suite is the key to starting the process of a captive and if they are not properly educated on it, then it may get pushed to the end of the list. It is always important to remember that insurance and risk mitigation is not everyone’s day job, so when talking about insurance we have to talk about it at a more elementary level so everyone can understand and no one feels uncomfortable. In this panel, we will go through some tips and tricks that service providers and captive owners have used to educate their companies or clients about the captive process. One issue risk managers tend to face is the “Why”, and so we will run through an overview of the life cycle of a captive and what questions might come up through each stage. Another crucial point that will be touched on is how to have these conversations when there may be turnover in upper-level management.

Following this presentation, audience members will be able to answer the “Why is starting a captive beneficial for our organization?” and educate their C-Suite on the basics of captive insurance.

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