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		<title>Osborne on the Collateral Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please read Gary Osborne&#8217;s latest blog post at Captive Review on the Collateral Problem. Click here to read.
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		<link>http://www.usariskblog.com/?p=133</link>
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		<title>Osborne on the State of Risk Retention Groups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gary Osborne, President of USA Risk Group, sat down with AM Best recently to discuss the state of the Risk Retention Group marketplace and how some of the proposed federal regulations might affect those entities. Please click here to view this informative interview.
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		<link>http://www.usariskblog.com/?p=128</link>
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		<title>Another USA Risk Group Managed Captive Receives A.M. Best Rating</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to United Contractors Insurance Company, Inc., a Risk Retention Group (UCIC) domiciled in the District of Columbia has received a B+ (Good) financial strength rating from AM Best along with a “bbb-“ issuer credit rating. The outlook for both ratings is stable.
UCIC received these ratings due to its adequate capitalization, its thorough business plan, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.usariskblog.com/?p=126</link>
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		<title>Another ICCIE Graduate at USA Risk Group</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to Alicia Rubalcaba for recently obtaining her Associate in Captive Insurance (ACI) designation.  The ACI curriculum is a rigorous 18 to 24 month course of  study focused on the various issues surrounding the management of captive insurance companies.  Topics covered range from accounting to risk management to reinsurance to loss analysis and everything in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.usariskblog.com/?p=124</link>
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		<title>Another Independent Bites the Dust</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, this is not a repeat.  Another independent captive manager is no more.  It was announced Friday, June 25th that Risk Services has merged with AmTrust, with AmTrust holding the majority interest of the merger.  This is probably the biggest independent to go this route since IAS was merged into Marsh. 
USA Risk Group is fully [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.usariskblog.com/?p=118</link>
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		<title>USA Risk Group (Cayman), Ltd. Moves Offices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[USA Risk Group, Inc. is pleased to announce the move of our Cayman Islands office to 5th Floor, Queensgate House, 113 South Church Street, Georgetown.  As some may know, USA Risk Group (Cayman), Ltd. has been in existence since the summer of 2005.  Since that time, our offices have been on the first floor of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.usariskblog.com/?p=114</link>
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		<title>Captive Insurance Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please see a recent post on the Captive Review blog regarding the important of captive insurance education:
http://www.captivereview.com/blogs/573392/-the-importance-of-education-.thtml
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		<link>http://www.usariskblog.com/?p=112</link>
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		<title>Regulators: What&#8217;s going on?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Was it something I said?  I just got done announcing the departure of Paulette Thabault as Commissioner of Insurance for the State of Vermont and now I have two more announcements.
 JP Schmidt, Insurance Commissioner of the State of Hawaii and Peter Raymond, Director of Captive Operations for the State of Vermont, have both tendered their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.usariskblog.com/?p=110</link>
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		<title>5th Annual Executive Educational Conference A Huge Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 5th Annual Executive Educational Conference hosted by USA Risk Group was a huge success last week.  We had over 100 attendees converge on the Ballantyne Resort &#38; Lodge in Charlotte, NC for some golf, some spa treatments and a day and a half of very high powered seminars.  Some of the first time attendees [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.usariskblog.com/?p=108</link>
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		<title>USA Risk Group Expands into the European Union</title>
		<description><![CDATA[USA Risk Group’s latest venture has taken us to Malta where we have joined forces with Jatco Insurance Brokers Limited, owned by John Tortell, to form USA Risk Group (Malta) Limited. Senior management were presented an opportunity to expand into the EU at the end of 2009 and in short order have completed that expansion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.usariskblog.com/?p=104</link>
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