Friday, 15 February 2013

What Delaware Captive Managers Should Do To Help Your Company Make Money

By Darrin F. Feest


A Delaware captive insurance company is usually established by a parent company (or owner) to insure its risk and those of associated organizations or groups. These "captive companies" (so named because they are controlled by the policyholder and owner) typically provide more tax benefits for the parent company, thanks to recent U.S. taxation code provisions provided by Congress, which can include claim a deductions for premiums accrued by the insurance company. Because forming and managing a captive can be a time consuming and complicated process, many parent companies hire a financial management company to help them with the process. These management advisors handle services connected to evaluating, forming, and managing a captive insurance company for the client.

Evaluating involves performing a feasibility study to analyze different aspects of establishing a captive insurance company. This could include identifying and classifying company insurance risks, analyzing assorted 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.

When forming the captive, the management company will take care of any financial fronting, reinsurance, tax problems, accounting, or other related matters. Because licensing also falls under this category, they would also handle 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 would include handling accounting, taxes, underwriting policies, regulatory compliance, and these types of services. This is the bulk of the work load, and saves the parent company and their employees countless manpower hours and headaches.

Handling all the accounting for the captive company could include preparing balance sheets, outlining of what filing for a section 831a or section 831b captive insurance tax break would mean for the company, and making up an extended business plan with detailed financial statements. Tax details also fall under this category, meaning they will care for preparing NAIC (National Association Of Insurance Commissioners) filings, tax returns, extensions, tailored management reports, any arrangements for retaining professionals, and arranging yearly external audits. Backing and policy issuance would also be included. That means they also prepare premium payment notices, insurance binders and packages, policy forms, confirmation of coverage letters, declaration pages, applications, coordinate with a ratings professional, underwrite any insurance risks when needed, and determine premium levels and coverage options. 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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