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Kenny White and Fred Driscoll, Alliant Healthcare, is joined by Seth Madnick, Alliant Captives, to examine how captive insurance continues to shape risk financing strategies in the managed care and ancillary healthcare sectors. 

The first half of 2025 marked a shift in the financial institutions' risk landscape, driven by regulatory rollbacks, growing digital asset exposures and a surge in claims activity. 

In today’s tightening insurance market, middle-market builders and specialty contractors must make loss control a top priority to stay competitive and protect margins. Carriers are raising premiums, increasing deductibles and becoming more selective about the risks they’ll cover. Contractors with poor loss histories or limited safety practices are facing reduced options and rising costs.

In construction, what you sign can be just as risky as what you build. Poor contract language is one of the most overlooked drivers of liability and insurance issues, which can lead to significant losses and project disruptions down the line.

In the non-profit industry, common business practices can lead to significant cyber risk and threat exposures. For example, many non-profit organizations use e-commerce platforms, websites or mobile apps to collect donations from individuals.

Golf courses and country clubs must complete a wide range of tasks to maintain the aesthetics and playability of their greens, from controlling weeds and pests to irrigating fairways. However, golf course maintenance introduces significant pollution risks and environmental liabilities that can significantly impact local ecosystems and water supplies.

At Alliant, we’re increasingly hearing from employers concerned about having too many disconnected programs that don’t really provide the benefits they promise.

In recent years, there has been a surge in litigation targeting employer plan sponsors over the design and administration of their group health plans. Those cases put forth various theories of liability, but currently fall into three general categories.

Reports of a major cyber incident striking United Natural Foods, Inc. (NYSE: UNFI) on or around June 5, 2025, cite impacts felt across the industry in the forms of delayed deliveries, empty store shelves and unhappy customers. UNFI is the natural grocery distributor to over 30,000 locations of Whole Foods, Military Commissaries, and other supermarkets and grocers.