Control your risk.
President Commercial Risk & Captive
Are you frustrated with insurance companies?
Take a moment.
Roughly calculate your total insurance premium for the last five years.
Now imagine…
Getting a cheque for 30%, 40%, 50% or even more of that total.
It’s unheard of, but not with a captive.
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Benefits of The Captive
Improve Risk Management
- Security in all four areas of risk: Financial, Strategic, Operational and Hazard
- Analysis of risk and claims processed to reduce future costs
- ROI for Administrative Costs: The Paramount Peak Process
Potential Wealth Accumulation
- Estate planning
- Asset growth
- Asset protection
Minimize Insurance Spend
- Reduce net insurance cost
- Provide insurance premium stability
- Purchase only what is needed
Have More Control
- Claims process
- Renewal premium
- Types of coverage and programs available to you, your business and your employees
Facilitate Cash Flow Improvement
- Return of insurance premium
- Investment income
What is The Captive?
At its heart, a captive is your own insurance company.All of us self insure all the time. We choose a deductible and below that threshold, we are prepared to pay for that amount of loss ourselves. The same goes for your company deductible. I can imagine you’ve chosen a deductible that is in the thousands, maybe even up to hundreds of thousands of dollars for some company insurance – depending on what it is.
Now imagine, you join with five, 10 or 15 other companies and insure as a group. You can choose what you want to insure together and what you’d prefer to leave out. You can determine your level of insurance, track your collective claims history and get analytics about your insurance risks. This type of insurance company is called a Group Captive.
We also have Single Parent Captives, where a large company can self insure – this type of insurance works well for companies with many locations or branches or perhaps even franchisees.
Through it all, Paramount is your trusted advisor working to guide you through the process and to administer either the group or single parent captive to ensure the process is well managed and operating effectively.
GROUP CAPTIVE
(5-10-15 companies)
Trucking
Company
Operation
Company
Company
Companies
SINGLE PARENT CAPTIVE
(1 company)
Offices
Offices
Outlets
The Captive Process
If you think a captive is for you and your company, then together we’ll embark on a 6-step process to do our due diligence and set up a structure that works best for you.
1
At the end of this meeting, you and your team decide if you want to move forward with the Premium Indication Study. To do so, we will need 5-year loss history and 5-year insurance premium history.
2
At the end of this meeting, you and your team decide if you want to move forward with the Viability Study. The cost for this is $2,500 if you are joining a group captive or $10,000 if you are setting up a single parent captive.
3
At the end of this meeting, you and your team will decide if you want to move forward with the Feasibility Study. The cost for this is $10,000 if you are joining a group captive or $55,000 if you are setting up a single parent captive.
4
At the end of this phase, you’ll decide if you want to move forward with implementation. The cost for this $2,500 if you are joining a group captive or $15,000 if you are setting up a single parent captive.
5
6
Setting up The Captive is an important decision.
We want to be sure you are 100% confident in your choice and that we’ve answered all your questions.
We want to be sure we’ve done our due diligence to ensure you and your company are a good fit for The Captive.
Anticipated Timeline
1
Initial
Meeting
2 weeks
2
Second
Meeting
2 weeks
3
Viability
Study
2 months
4
Feasibility
Study
3 months
5
The Captive
Implementation
3 months