Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Investopedia / Ellen Lindner A captive agent is an insurance professional who exclusively ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Bobby L. Hickman is a longtime business and financial journalist who brings decades of ...

Volvo Car Financial Services U.S. is now in the business of more than just booking retail installment sales contracts and vehicle leases. On Wednesday, the captive announced the launch of Volvo Car ...

The article encourages consumers to think beyond agent type and focus on whether the relationship supports evolving needs and thorough review. The article, Independent vs. Captive Insurance Agents: ...

"Every industry can benefit from captives, bringing more control and transparency to how insurance is managed," states Illia Kasian, Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Matcha, the San ...

The question of whether captive agents are independent contractors or employees of an insurance company is at the heart of a class action lawsuit filed against several GEICO companies. The suit ...

The Supreme Court rarely hears tax cases which makes the recent oral arguments in CIC Services v IRS exciting. That is about all that makes them exciting to ordinary mortals as what was going on at ...

The IRS is cracking down on the use of so-called micro-captive insurance—a way for companies to insure themselves—as tax shelters, as it bolsters enforcement efforts aimed at wealthy individuals and ...

The measures taken by the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation (the “DFR”) in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have been extended through 2021. These include a recognition that ...

State Farm’s sweeping overhaul of agent compensation may mark the beginning of a broader transformation of the property/casualty industry, observers say. The nation’s largest property/casualty insurer ...