joi, 7 februarie 2013

How Using Delaware Captive Advisors Can Save Your Company Money

By Darrin F. Feest


A Delaware captive insurance company is normally established by a parent company (or owner) to insure its risk and those of affiliated organizations or groups. These are referred to as "captive companies" because they are controlled by a company that is both the owner and a policyholder, which provides assorted tax benefits to the parent company since recent U.S. tax provisions allow it to claim deductions for premiums accrued throughout the tax year. Since it can be a somewhat complex process to establish and maintain a small insurance company to take advantage of these benefits, hiring a financial management company is generally recommended. These management companies handle services related to evaluating, forming, and managing a captive insurance company for the client.

Evaluating a captive involves analyzing it to see how it should be formed to best meet the needs of the client company. This might include identifying and classifying company insurance risks, analyzing different risk transfer solutions, drawing up a plan to form and manage a captive, summarizing insurance coverage, premium levels, risk retention amounts, capital, allocation of funds, and financial projections for a captive.

Establishing the insurance company might include taking care of financial fronting, reinsurance opportunities, regulatory, accounting, and tax matters and other associated issues. Since licensing also falls under this category, they would also take care of any regular communication required to get approval for licenses, prepare applications and documents required by insurance regulators, contracting service providers, supervising captive incorporating, filing applications, paying licensing fees, or any other related information .

Managing a Delaware captive insurance company means that these companies take care of regulatory compliance matters, underwriting policies, accounting, and additional services. This ends up being the long term work and bulk of the total workload, which saves the parent company hours of manpower and headaches.

The accounting matters they care for include making up a business plan (usually for 5-years) with detailed financial statements, balance sheets, and income statements that outline the basic operation of the 831b captive during the projected period. Handling tax related matters like preparing a customized management report, preparing NAIC filings, coordinating services with retained professionals, arranging annual exterior audits, preparing tax returns, and extensions would also fall under this category. Underwriting and policy issuance would also be included. A detailed description of what this means is that they take care of putting together insurance binders, determine premium levels and available coverage options, write up and send out premium payment notices, underwrite insurance risks when required, and prepare declaration pages, forms confirming coverage, various application, and other similar documentation. Regulatory compliance involves reviewing and monitoring brokerage, banking and financial statements, quarterly financial reviews, annual reviews of insurance and corporate legal requirements, intermittent reviews of solvency, meet capital adequacy and asset allocation requirements, and preparing annual financial compliance reports.




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