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
In reinsurance, risk rarely stops moving once it leaves the original insurer. A reinsurer that assumes risk from a primary carrier may, in turn, transfer a portion of that risk to yet another reinsurer. That second transfer is called retrocession — the reinsurance of reinsurance — and it introduces two terms that are frequently mixed up: the retrocedent and the retrocessionaire.
Third-party litigation funding has grown, over a relatively short period, from a niche financing arrangement into a meaningful force shaping the litigation environment — and, by extension, the cost of insurance. It tends to operate out of view, rarely discussed by the parties whose cases it supports, yet its influence reaches into the very loss trends that captive owners watch most closely. For organizations financing their own risk, it is worth understanding what this capital does, why it has attracted steadily growing concern, and why a recent development in North Carolina has captured the industry's attention.
Captives Insure is pleased to announce our attendance at the Captive Review Conference USA 2026, one of the premier gatherings for captive insurance owners, managers, advisors, and service providers in the United States.
The conference brings together leaders from across the captive insurance industry to discuss market dynamics, regulatory developments, domicile trends, reinsurance conditions, and emerging structural strategies relevant to middle-market and Fortune 1000 captive programs. As active participants in this market, our team looks forward to engaging with fellow industry professionals, sharing insights from our client work, and exploring new opportunities to help organizations build and optimize their captive programs.
The global reinsurance market entered 2026 in a state of cautious expanding capacity. After two years of disciplined underwriting, record returns on equity at the major reinsurers, and a January renewal that brought modest property catastrophe rate softening for the first time since 2017
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