Insure your own risks instead of transferring them to the commercial insurance market. Captive insurance is a powerful way to reduce risk exposures and minimize costs.
Why pay premiums to an insurer when you can keep them yourself?
Virtually every risk underwritten by a commercial insurer can be provided by a captive. With this arrangement, you form or join an insurance company to control your own claims, coverage, premiums and risk exposure. If your business has a low claims history, the cost of financing a risk can be much lower than a corresponding commercial coverage – resulting in significant cost savings.
Tailored coverage
Obtain insurance tailored to your unique risks. Your premium is based on your own loss records, not state rates or industry averages.
Award-winning service
We are highly experienced and offer an independent, efficient and proactive service to our clients.
Global network
Location is critical to your captive’s success. We recommend the best domicile and bring an expert global team to ensure the smooth operation of the captive.
There’s no such thing as a standard captive. That’s why we provide a custom end-to-end service, guiding you from program design and compliance to active day-to-day management.
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Actuarial services
We work closely with actuaries to bring clarity to your risk exposure. From best and worst case financial projections to opinions regarding claim liabilities for regulators, we help you determine what to insure in the captive, balancing risk-taking with prudence over the long term.
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Analytics and benchmarking
Businesses that use captives need to know how their captives match up against others in the same industry. We can answer this question with custom analytics designed to help you optimize captive performance and ensure it is delivering the best value for your business.
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Claims management
Captive claim management is not like ‘regular’ claim management – there are nuances and different claims philosophies to consider. Leaning on our decades of experience, we can help you pay legitimate claims quickly and aggressively defend actions.
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Compliance and oversight
Ensuring that your captive is bulletproof begins with demonstrating that it’s set up properly and for the right reasons. Once it’s up and running, we make sure your captive remains compliant with applicable laws and reporting requirements, saving you time, money and paperwork.
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Feasibility studies
All captives are ‘feasible’ given the right combination of capital, coverage and premiums, but not all captives meet the goals of your company. We’ll figure out whether you have the right ingredients for captive success.
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Fronting
By using a fronting relationship with a commercial insurance carrier, we empower the captive to issue compliant policies for things like workers’ compensation in states in which it is not licensed. Fronting also gives the captive access to claims handling and other resources in a cost-effective way.
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Intermediary services
There is no substitute for the ‘human factor’ when it comes to client relationships. Our intermediaries act as your supportive go-between, helping you navigate the captive insurance and reinsurance maze to find solutions that meet your needs.
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Policy language
Captives are permitted to develop their own policy language in most domicicles, and it pays to be fluent. We make sure that who pays what, when, and how much is spelled out clearly up front and the policy takes into consideration the specific risks of the owner.
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Portfolio management
Active portfolio management requires strategically buying and selling the right investments to ensure you can meet claims payments and generate profits for the captive. We’ll help you put a strong plan into action to meet your financial goals.
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Product development
The world of employee benefits is evolving all the time. We can help develop creative captive insurance solutions for newly emerged benefits and risks so you can stay ahead of market realities and make the most of opportunities.
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Program management
We’re experts in seamlessly implementing insurance programs on behalf of captives to ensure their risk exposures are identified and mitigated. Our program management services are designed to ensure you gain maximum advantage from captive self-insurance.
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Project management
Captives stand out as a smart option for risk management, as long as they are properly managed. We use our hands-on experience to manage every aspect of your captive arrangement, removing the burden that a captive could otherwise place on an organization.
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Reinsurance
Captives can enjoy a direct relationship with the reinsurance market, which is important to spread risk and protect a firm’s exposure to large losses or catastrophic events. We’ll help you make the best placement choices in line with your profit and risk tolerance levels.
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Underwriting
Working closely with actuaries, we handle all underwriting processes, helping to identify under-insured and unidentified risk in your business, available lines of coverage, and the likelihood of claims to figure out the right premiums for your coverage.
We put our experience to work for you
Wisterm forms and manages captive insurance companies globally and we do it all. Our clients range from the smallest organizations to global enterprises and all of them, no matter how small, enjoy significant benefits from participating in a captive program.
From broader insurance coverage and more control over the claims handling process to a significant reduction in annual premiums, discover how we have helped our clients succeed.