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Some HR professionals seem disinterested in the advantages of using a captive insurance company for employee benefits.

The use of captives in Vermont since 1981 has evolved gradually, though some innovative individual companies have spurred dramatic advancements for peers and future owners to follow.

The captive industry in Vermont is optimistic, despite some confounding trends.

One of Vermont's newer captive insurers has empowered its parent to become a better savior for its clients.

The number of states offering captive domiciles continues to grow, but the regulatory regimes and available support services are key differentiators.

The annual conference of the Captive Insurance Companies Association will focus on emerging trends, from health care to the fiscal cliff to new regulations, affecting the industry.

The call for employers to abandon their health care plans in the face of Obamacare are premature. The call for them to join captives is loud and clear.

Dodd-Frank regulatory confusion could have an impact on domestic captives as the NAIC eyes addressing 'shadow banking' fears.

Experts at the Vermont Captive Insurance Association conference last week expect the market to heat up.

Veterans of the niche say captives, social media and old-fashioned research all belong in the mix when building a successful program business.

ACOs are not easy to set up and growth for the moment is slow. Still, the payoff for captives could be big.

More multinationals are moving ahead with their own internal capital models.

Large, self-funded employers who face rising stop-loss coverage costs, warm to the idea of the group captive with health reform's elimination of lifetime and annual caps on employee medical coverage.

But hurry, because by the time prices in the traditional market rise again in earnest, it will be too late.

Soft pricing, currency manipulations and other economic stimulus measures make this a bad time to form a captive.

Tennessee upgrades its captive law, providing new choices for insureds looking for a domicile in the Southeast. The changes in the Volunteer State are for real, insiders said.

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Series captives are a newer structure, particularly suitable for smaller and midsize enterprises looking for an alternative risk transfer mechanism, without the costs of more traditional captive formations.

Experts point to tighter underwriting guidelines as a reason for outperforming traditional markets.