Archives for "February, 2010"
Executive Educational Conference
We are putting the finishing touches on our program for the 5th Annual Executive Educational Conference to be held at the Ballantyne Hotel & Lodge in Charlotte, NC on May 26th-27th, 2010. Our theme this year is “Learning the A.R.T. of Captive Insurance”. We have another exciting schedule of events with seminars covering actuarial sciences, [...]
Vermont off to a good start in 2010
By the end of the first month of the new decade, the State of Vermont will have licensed three new captives and has a reported three more in progress. Vermont ended the last decade with a stellar last year, forming 39 new captives. This was quite an accomplishment given the soft market and the global [...]
USA Risk Notes
Jen Hawkins receives SPHR designation
Congratulations to Jen Hawkins, Assistant Vice President of USA Risk Group, for obtaining her Senior Professional in Human Resources designation, after six modules spanning twelve weeks of classes culminating in a four hour exam.
Khia Gibbons received BIMA Scholarship for ACI
Congratulations to Khia Gibbons of Cedar Management, Ltd., a USA Risk Group [...]
Captive Review – December 2009 issue
Captive Review is celebrating its tenth year as “the essential guide to alternative risk transfer”. The cover of the magazine (Beatles album cover – Sgt. Pepper) features 55 familiar faces from the alternative risk transfer industry, faces that have helped shape the landscape of the industry over the past decade. Our esteemed President, Gary Osborne, [...]
Passing of a friend to the Alternative Risk Transfer Marketplace
USA Risk Group was saddened by the news of the passing of Karen Cutts earlier this month. Karen was a pioneer in bringing up to date news and happenings in the Risk Retention Group and Purchasing Group arenas for the past 24 years having been the founder and publisher of the Risk Retention Reporter. She [...]
Authors
Jeff, a Certified Public Accountant since 1990, has over 19 years experience in the captive insurance industry. Jeff has had experience working for a large broker, a self-managed captive insurance company and for the past 10 years has focused the majority of his time in the creation and formation of captive arrangements ranging from single parents to sponsored facilities to risk retention groups. He is an active participant with the Vermont Captive Insurance Association and other industry associations and has also spoken at several industry conferences. He has been a member of the VCIA’s legislative committee for the past 10 years. He is a graduate of the University of Vermont with a degree in Business Administration.
Gary, a Scottish Chartered Accountant, presides over the entire USA Risk Group family. He develops innovative alternative and traditional risk strategies and programs for clients and prospects of USA Risk Group. With over nineteen years of experience in the alternative market, he has been involved in the establishment of numerous single parent captives, association captives, risk retention groups, and traditional group insurance programs. He has also spoken at several national industry conferences, served on the NRRA membership committee, and was Treasurer of the Hawaii Captive Insurance Council. He currently serves on the Legislative Committee of the Vermont Captive Insurance Association and serves as a faculty member for the International Center for Captive Insurance Education.
