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Captive insurance arrangements more common
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Managed Healthcare Executive
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May 1, 2008
- Author:
- Senterfitt, Barry
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IRS ruling provides guide with regard to tax issues pertaining to the now-popular protected cell companies
Many Healthcare entities have explored certain alternative risk transfer arrangements as a means for insuring, or perhaps self-insuring, various exposures. The use of captive insurance arrangements has been a common approach, and thus, "protected cell companies" have become popular vehicles.
Most protected cell companies involve a commercial insurer that sponsors a captive insurance company. That captive has several segregated cells which are funded by business insureds to cover their own risks. These arrangements are often used by small- to mid-sized businesses that do not have the ...