Wednesday, 21 November 2012

How Hiring Delaware Captive Advisors Can Save Your Company Money

By Shaylee V. Tillman


A parent company (or owner) generally establishes a Delaware captive insurance company to insure its risks and those of its affiliated groups and businesses. These "captive companies" (so named because they are controlled by the policyholder and owner) typically provide more tax benefits for the parent company, thanks to recent U.S. taxation code provisions provided by Congress, which can include claim a deductions for premiums accrued by the insurance company. Because forming and maintaining a captive can be a time consuming and complicated process, many parent companies hire a financial management company to help them with the process. These advisors perform various services for their client companies, including evaluating, forming, and managing captive companies.

Evaluating involves doing a feasibility study to analyze different aspects of establishing a captive insurance company. This might include identifying and classifying company insurance risks, analyzing different risk transfer solutions, drawing up a plan to form and manage a captive, summarizing insurance coverage, premium levels, risk retention amounts, capital, allocation of funds, and financial projections for a captive.

Forming the insurance company might include taking care of financial fronting, reinsurance opportunities, regulatory, accounting, and tax matters and other associated issues. Because licensing also falls under this category, they would also take care of any regular communication required to get approval for licenses, prepare applications and documents required by insurance regulators, contracting service providers, supervising captive incorporating, filing applications, paying licensing fees, or any other related information .

Managing a Delaware captive would include handling accounting, taxes, underwriting policies, regulatory compliance, and these types of services. Since this is the bulk of the long term and total workload, it saves the client company countless hours of work and stress.

Handling all the accounting for the captive company could include preparing balance sheets, outlining of what filing for a section 831a or section 831b captive insurance tax break would mean for the company, and making up an extended business plan with detailed financial statements. Tax details like sending tax returns, extensions, National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) filings, customized management reports, arranging a annual audits, and retaining tax professionals are handled by them as well. Backing and policy issuance would also be included. This means that they would determine premium levels and coverage details, underwrite any insurance risks, coordinate with ratings methodology professionals, prepare applications, declaration pages, confirmation of coverage forms, policy forms, insurance binders, premium payment notices, and other related documents. They manage regulatory compliance (meaning they make sure the captive insurance company obeys government finance rules and regulations) by doing quarterly finance reviews, monitoring back statements and brokerage information, performing annual reviews to check corporate legal requirements, solvency, and other associated activities.




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