The Basic Captive Structure
Who Should Consider a Captive?
- Businesses in an insurance inadequate field
- Privately held family business (all business types)
- Highly compensated professionals
- Revenues over $5 million per year
- Businesses which are consistently profitable
Who can own the Captive?
- Individuals
- Trust(s)/FLP(s)
- LLC(s)
- Partnership(s)
- Corporation(s)
Common business types participating:
Construction, finance, energy, healthcare, retail, transportation, general contracting, professional athletes, and many more...
Assumptions:
- ERS Insurance is a Utah Captive Insurance Company
- Premium is $1 million
- Policies - $1 million limit per coverage
- Enterprise Risk Strategies is the Captive Manager for both ERS Insurance and Small Insurance Companies.
How it works
- Insured pays premium to Enterprise Risk Strategies
- Enterprise Risk Strategies remits premium to ERS Insurance
- ERS Insurance issues policies to Insured with $1 million limit per coverage
- ERS Insurance re-insures to Captive's 1st layer of risk (first dollar through a set limit) [A]
- ERS Insurance places 2nd layer of risk (total limits net of 1st layer of risk) into reinsurance pool
- ERS Insurance cedes risk in reinsurance pool to Captive [B]