v3.25.2
Reinsurance (Tables)
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2025
Reinsurance Disclosures [Abstract]  
In-force Life Insurance

Details on in-force life insurance were as follows:

 

 

 

June 30, 2025

 

 

December 31, 2024

 

 

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Direct life insurance in-force

 

$

970,278,989

 

 

$

955,610,523

 

Amounts ceded to other companies

 

 

(828,854,218

)

 

 

(817,825,296

)

Net life insurance in-force

 

$

141,424,771

 

 

$

137,785,227

 

Percentage of reinsured life insurance in-force

 

 

85

%

 

 

86

%

Reinsurance Recoverable Estimated by Reinsurer and Financial Strength Ratings of Reinsurer

Reinsurance recoverables include ceded policy benefit reserve balances, ceded claim liabilities, and ceded claims paid that have not been reimbursed. The Company allocated reinsurance recoverables estimated at the cohort level to individual reinsurers for disclosure purposes. Reinsurance recoverables estimated by reinsurer and the financial strength ratings of those reinsurers were as follows:

 

 

 

June 30, 2025

 

December 31, 2024

 

 

Reinsurance recoverables

 

 

A.M. Best rating

 

Reinsurance recoverables

 

 

A.M. Best rating

 

 

(In thousands)

Swiss Re Life & Health America Inc. (Novated from Pecan Re Inc.) (1)

 

$

2,049,871

 

 

A+

 

$

2,074,945

 

 

A+

Munich Re of Malta (1)(2)

 

 

214,938

 

 

NR

 

 

210,822

 

 

NR

SCOR Global Life Reinsurance Companies (3)

 

 

126,929

 

 

A

 

 

148,899

 

 

A

American Health and Life Insurance Company (1)

 

 

124,969

 

 

B++

 

 

127,601

 

 

B++

RGA Reinsurance Company

 

 

47,769

 

 

A+

 

 

44,132

 

 

A+

Swiss Re Life & Health America Inc. (4)

 

 

47,385

 

 

A+

 

 

43,826

 

 

A+

Korean Reinsurance Company

 

 

40,904

 

 

A

 

 

40,781

 

 

A

Munich American Reassurance Company

 

 

32,175

 

 

A+

 

 

36,487

 

 

A+

All other reinsurers

 

 

14,386

 

 

-

 

 

17,887

 

 

-

Allowance for credit losses

 

 

(1,182

)

 

 

 

 

(1,215

)

 

 

Reinsurance recoverables

 

$

2,698,144

 

 

 

 

$

2,744,165

 

 

 

 

NR – not rated by A.M. Best

(1)
Reinsurance recoverables include balances ceded under coinsurance transactions of term life insurance policies that were in-force as of December 31, 2009. Amounts shown are net of their share of the reinsurance recoverable from other reinsurers. Arrangements with these reinsurers include collateral trust agreements held in support of reinsurance recoverables.
(2)
Entity is rated AA by S&P as of June 30, 2025.
(3)
Includes amounts ceded to Transamerica Reinsurance Companies and fully retroceded to SCOR Global Life Reinsurance Companies.
(4)
Includes amounts ceded to Lincoln National Life Insurance and fully retroceded to Swiss Re Life & Health America Inc.
Allowance for Credit Loss on Reinsurance Recoverable

The rollforward of the allowance for credit losses on reinsurance recoverables were as follows:

 

 

Three months ended June 30,

 

 

Six months ended June 30,

 

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

 

(In thousands)

 

Balance, beginning of period

 

$

1,104

 

 

$

1,048

 

 

$

1,215

 

 

$

1,120

 

Current period (benefit) provision for expected credit losses

 

 

78

 

 

 

74

 

 

 

(33

)

 

 

2

 

   Balance, at the end of period

 

$

1,182

 

 

$

1,122

 

 

$

1,182

 

 

$

1,122