This article is intended to provide a basic set of frequently asked questions on captive insurance companies. The questions are in no way meant to be exhaustive on the subject, but rather solely cover certain basic uniform questions potential captive insurance company owners need to ask before...

Following up on Prof; Beckett G. Cantley' presentation at BYU on the current abuses he's seen related to Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) 831(b) Captive Insurance Companies (“CIC”), this memorandum (“memo”) summarizes some of his published law review articles in the area. There seems to...

Large U.S. companies have been forming captive insurance companies since the 1950s. In general, such large captives are formed for one of three main reasons. First, some companies are unable to obtain necessary insurance coverage. For example, certain nuclear power companies formed a captive...

Over the last decade, the use of Captive Insurance Companies ("CIC") has expanded from large entities to smaller, closely held companies when utilize the IRC 831(b) election. Correspondingly, the IRS has expanded its review of CIC arrangements, specifically targeting those CIC arrangements that...

Due to the lack of descriptive information about the effectiveness of risk management activities, decision-makers often have to rely on (their own) prior experience with these investments. Thus, we propose a novel, feedback-based approach to examine risk management decisions. We simulate...