A real estate company carried a property schedule most carriers approach with caution: more than $900 million in total insurable value across a geographically diversified portfolio, with meaningful earthquake, named-wind, and flood exposure. Year after year, the underwriting margin on that program accrued to an outside carrier. Captives Insure structured a program that keeps it with the business that carries the risk.
Captives.Insure will be on the ground at the Mid Rivers Risk Forum, the Midwest's gathering point for risk managers, brokers, and alternative-risk professionals. The 2026 edition carries the theme "Advancing Risk Leadership Across the Midwest," convened in partnership with the Missouri Captive Insurance Association, the Missouri Self-Insured Association, and the state's RIMS chapters
The market heading into the second half of 2026 is defined by a paradox: more capital than ever, deployed with unusual restraint. Property catastrophe reinsurance is softening into a clear buyer's market, the primary commercial market is diverging sharply line by line, and casualty — umbrella in particular — is tightening even as the rest of the book gives back rate. The two halves of that picture point in opposite directions, and the appropriate posture into 1/1 reflects both
Captives Insure will be attending the North Carolina Captive Insurance Association (NCCIA) Annual Conference — one of the premier domicile events in the captive insurance industry. Each year the conference brings together captive owners, domicile regulators, fronting carriers, reinsurers, actuaries, and advisors for programming on program design, regulatory developments, and the direction of the broader P&C market.
Captives Insure is heading to Burlington, Vermont for the Vermont Captive Insurance Association (VCIA) Annual Conference — the largest and longest-running educational event in the captive insurance industry.
The feature appears in Captive Insurance Times' July 2026 edition, which brings together reporting, interviews, and analysis from across the captive and reinsurance community. The full issue is available on the publication's website
Governor Kathy Hochul has announced a package of tort and rate-setting reforms included in New York's FY27 budget, designed to lower auto-insurance premiums for drivers and curb fraudulent claims. Early guidance from the Department of Financial Services (DFS) is already pushing insurers to implement these changes, with the governor publicly calling on companies to demonstrate measurable savings within months
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