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Agents Charged in $250 Million Off-Shore Insurance Scheme

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr. announced the indictment of officers of Inter-Insurance Agency Services Ltd. and the firm for their roles in an eight-year scheme in which they allegedly provided more than $250 million in coverage to clients while …

Markets/Coverages: Captive Insurer Targets New York Affordable Housing Market

A new Vermont-based captive insurer is promising to provide insurance for New York affordable rental housing buildings at a time when advocates say coverage is difficult to afford or obtain. The Milford Street Association Captive Insurance Co. will be owned …

DARAG Acquires Guernsey Reinsurance Captive in Run-Off

DARAG Group, an international insurance and reinsurance group that specializes in the assumption of discontinued businesses, has acquired a Guernsey based reinsurance captive. DARAG said the sale of the captive, which has been in run-off since 2019, is part of …

Cyber MGA Resilience Forms Captive Insurer in Bermuda

Cyber insurance and security provider Resilience Cyber Insurance Solutions has created a captive reinsurance company. Through the Bermuda-based captive, Resilience will retain a share of each risk it underwrites. CJ Pruzinsky, executive vice president and chief underwriting officer for North …

Connecticut Drone Company Aquiline Forms Captive Insurer

Aquiline Drones Corp. (AD), a Hartford, Conn.-based drone manufacturing and services firm, has completed the licensing process to establish its own insurance captive, Aquiline Drones Indemnity Corp. (ADIC). This insurance license allows AD to assume the risk of its entire …

Lyft, Uber Shift Some Risk to Captive Insurers

Ride-sharing giants Lyft Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc. seem to have found the same solution for dealing with the risks of managing millions of drivers on the road: Creating their own insurers in Hawaii. On Friday, Lyft told potential investors …

Aetna to Establish Captive Insurance Company in Connecticut

Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced last week that Hartford, Connecticut-based health insurer Aetna is establishing its captive insurance company in its home state, becoming the state’s fifth licensed and largest captive insurer to date. Aetna’s captive, the Aetna Risk …

AT&T Licensed for Captive Insurance Operations in Texas

The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has licensed Gateway Rivers Insurance Co., the captive insurance subsidiary of AT&T Inc. Gateway Rivers is based in Dallas. “We’re very pleased to have this business in Texas,” said Commissioner of Insurance Julia Rathgeber. …

National Interstate Launches Captive for Waste Haulers

National Interstate Insurance Co. has formed a new group rental captive for waste haulers to complement its traditional insurance program. The company is now seeking operators with a solid track record in the waste industry to become founding members. According …

Connecticut Announces Its 3rd Licensed Captive Insurance Company

Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced last week that the corporate owner of one of the largest grocery store chains in New York City is setting up its captive insurance subsidiary in Connecticut. The Red Apple Group, which operates Gristedes …