Captivating Thinking

Risk management is a challenging business.  In the twenty-first century, companies (particularly small and mid-sized ones) face innumerable existential threats.  For instance, cyber risk is a growing and wildly unpredictable threat as evidenced by the havoc wreaked on Equifax, Sony and Target (to name a few) by hackers.  If cyber risk isn’t enough, terrorism and natural perils also pose significant threats to businesses and their operations (How long could your business last without power?).  Environmental disasters are more and more common

In a recent article published in the January issue of Business Insurance, Phil Karter, JD and Katherine Jordan, JD of Chamberlain Hrdlicka discuss life insurance as an asset class for captive insurance companies.  In the article, Karter and Jordan explain several scenarios that demonstrate a captive investing in life insurance 

By Sean King, JD, CPA, MAcc

Principal, CIC Services, LLC

On his Forbes.com blog and elsewhere, captive insurance attorney Jay Adkisson often writes condescendingly about the supposedly poor and tax-motivated work of other captive insurance professionals.  Here is but one recent example:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jayadkisson/2018/01/27/beware-the-puerto-rico-captive-insurance-tax-shelter/#3775cad86c60

By attempting to taint them as “tax shelter promoters”, he implicitly positions himself as lily-white, IRS-endorsed and tax-disinterested.  If Mr. Adkisson’s writings are to be believed, the country is presently overrun