Health insurance captives, also known as medical stop-loss insurance captives, have been around for a while — even though they are still not widely adopted — and can be a successful part of a cost ...

Captive insurance can have perfectly legal tax and financial benefits, but some companies go too far ...

When a captive health plan works well, employers are able to lower the cost of healthcare — in some cases by 30%-40% — for their employees. Regardless of how many employees or plans they have, all ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Bobby L. Hickman is a longtime business and financial journalist who brings decades of ...

In its simplest form, captive insurance is insurance that is provided within a corporate group, through a subsidiary that is controlled by a parent company. Instead of purchasing insurance from an ...

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The Internal Revenue Service is proposing to restrict access to micro-captive insurance as a way to crack down on tax fraud, but at a time when some traditional insurance providers are backing away ...

Interest in self-insuring or having a captive insurance model historically has been cyclical, rising or dissipating based on the economic ebb and flow of insurance cost drivers. But that may be ...

The high cost of insurance and lack of control over claims processing are common frustrations experienced by insurance consumers. A captive insurance company and a segregated-cell captive program are ...