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It’s All About the Team. How Vermont’s Captive Insurance Examiners Enable Alternate Risk Transfer.

There may be no clearer indication of how well-kept the secret of captive insurance opportunities is than the case of Peter Wernhoff. He grew up in Vermont and attended the University of Vermont, but it wasn’t until he entered the working world, girded with an accounting degree, that he found out about captives. Now, in…

That’s Right; Nonprofits Thrive in Captives. How These Businesses Found a Home in Vermont

Picture this: It’s the 1980s. Public housing authorities are having a difficult time securing coverage from insurance carriers. This is due to authorities being unable to afford adequate coverage or insurance carriers being unwilling to even sell coverage in the first place. “In essence, the insurance industry served an eviction notice on the public housing…

David Provost receives Distinguished Captive Insurance Service Award

Montpelier, Vt. – Earlier this month at the Captive Insurance Companies Association (CICA) international conference in Tucson, Arizona, Deputy Commissioner David Provost of Captive Insurance, Department of Financial Regulation, received the prestigious Distinguished Service Award, which is presented annually to a single individual or entity that has made a significant contribution to the captive insurance…

Captive Spotlight Series: You can have your cake and eat it too

Ever fantasized about living in a beautiful, bucolic setting but quickly did a reality check because you thought you’d have to make too many sacrifices concerning your career – less opportunity, little room for growth, lower salaries, less interesting work? Well, that’s not the case with a career in the Vermont Captive Insurance industry. In…

2021 was a busy year for Vermont’s captive industry. What will 2022 bring?

It’s been a busy year for Vermont’s captive insurance industry. The state celebrated 40 years since its legislature passed the Special Insurer Act of 1981, which allowed businesses to form captives. Vermont is now the largest onshore captive domicile and the third largest in the world, with almost 600 active captives, $25.4 billion in gross…