A captive agent is an insurance agent who only works for one insurance company and is paid by that one company, either by salary, commission, or both.

In its simplest form, captive insurance is insurance that is provided within a corporate group, through a subsidiary that is controlled by a parent company. Instead of purchasing insurance from an ...

Oliver Hahn, the cofounder of Peak Insurance, is making captive insurance more accessible to medium-sized companies. After becoming the Head of Finance at Kyte, a small US-based company for rental ...

The IRS continues its war on captive insurance through its annual announcement that microcaptive insurance companies remain on the Dirty Dozen list. Yet, the IRS declines to adhere to a coherent ...

In an environment where insurance premiums have climbed steadily for the past few quarters, businesses are confronting a fundamental question: how long can they afford to play by the old rules?

Captive insurance programs continued to grow in 2025 despite easing conditions in the commercial market, according to Marsh's ...

This year, the IRS has added a new item to its “Dirty Dozen,” a list of tax scams that the agency is on the watch for. The item is “Captive Insurance,” a topic that is near and dear to Hawaii.

Captive insurance companies are likely exempt from filing a Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) Report under the insurance company exemption to the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). Likewise, ...

The IRS is cracking down on the use of so-called micro-captive insurance—a way for companies to insure themselves—as tax shelters, as it bolsters enforcement efforts aimed at wealthy individuals and ...