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USA Risk Group Inc. President Gary H. Osborne likes to tee it up with colleagues, but sometimes gets teed off as well when friends outmuscle him on the golf course.

Questions hinge around the understanding of a series captive model and the efforts at regulating it.

Corporations look to extended warranties and live to extend peace of mind to buyers because the premium collected is often way out of whack with the risk.

A Scotsman jumps headlong -- and by "absolute accident" -- into the captive insurance business, turning the study of alternative risk into a thriving career.

A recent New York Times article called into question the regulation of captive insurance vehicles in onshore domiciles. We give a chance to these regulators to defend against these accusations about the dark side of captives, and discuss why changes are made to how they oversee the industry.

We look at two innovative uses for captive insurance vehicles, series captives and extended warranties.