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CAPTIVE INSURANCE SERVICES*

The firm practices in the area of captive insurance and alternative risk management, including captive feasibility, captive structure design, formation and licensing. Jay Adkisson is the author of the best selling Captive Insurance Companies: An Introduction to Captives, Closely-Held Insurance Companies and Risk Retention Groups. Chris Riser also has substantial experience in captive insurance formation and management. The firm also opines on certain tax issues relating to captives.

Formation

The firm assists clients in the formation of new captive insurance companies, including conducting a feasibility analysis, arranging a feasibility study, preparing the license application, facilitating the preliminary meeting with the insurance commissioner, incorporation, assisting with transfers to capitalize the new captive, and with all ancillary business and estate planning to create the most efficient structure.


Existing Captive Review or Proposal Review (Second Opinion)
The firm also can be engaged to perform reviews of existing captive insurance structures, or proposals created by other firms to form a captive insurance company. Such reviews are conducted by the attorneys of the firm on a pre-paid fixed-fee basis or an hourly basis that will be billed at the attorney's standard hourly rates with a reasonable retainer deposited by the client in the firm's client trust account beforehand.

 
Captive Insurance Claims Defense

The firm also provides for the litigation defense of policies underwritten by captives, including claim evaluation, mediation, litigation defense, trial, and appeals. The firm also undertakes litigation representations for reinsurance arrangements, retrocessional treaties, and like arrangements.

Captive Insurance Malpractice
The firm handles matters, both claims and defense, relating to the recovery against advisors for defective captive insurance structures and the losses causes thereby.


Adkisson's Captive Insurance Companies: An Introduction to Captives, Closely-Held Insurance Companies and Risk Retention Groups now available from:

Amazon.com

or

Barnes & Noble

 

Prospective clients seeking to use the firm's services should call our new client coordinator at 949.629.1176 to set up a brief free telephone conference with an attorney of the firm to discuss the prospective client's suitability and the firm's process for assisting its clients once they have engaged the firm.


* Please note that no attorney of the firm has sought board certification by any state as a specialist in any area of practice, and no attorney of the firm claims to be a specialist in any practice area.
 

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