NU Online News Service, Aug. 17, 1:01 p.m. EDT

BURLINGTON, Vt.—Vermont's goal is to remain number one in the captive insurance business in the United States and next, the world, Gov. Peter Shumlin says last week at the Vermont Captive Insurance Association conference.

"It doesn't matter if we have Republican governors, or Democratic governors—we get it," he says. "This is an economic engine in Vermont and we're going to do everything we know how to keep the other 49 states in hibernation and to continue to tell the Cayman Islands and a couple of other little islands down there, 'Watch out.'"

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