v3.26.1
Reinsurance (Tables)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2026
Reinsurance Disclosures [Abstract]  
In-force Life Insurance

Details on in-force life insurance were as follows:

 

 

 

March 31, 2026

 

 

December 31, 2025

 

 

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Direct life insurance in-force

 

$

967,566,392

 

 

$

969,529,768

 

Amounts ceded to other companies

 

 

(825,612,920

)

 

 

(827,832,374

)

Net life insurance in-force

 

$

141,953,472

 

 

$

141,697,394

 

Percentage of reinsured life insurance in-force

 

 

85

%

 

 

85

%

 

Reinsurance Recoverables Estimated by Reinsurer and Financial Strength Ratings of Reinsurer 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:

 

 

 

March 31, 2026

 

December 31, 2025

 

 

Reinsurance recoverables

 

 

AM Best rating

 

Reinsurance recoverables

 

 

AM Best rating

 

 

(In thousands)

Swiss Re Life & Health America Inc. (IPO coinsurance) (1)

 

$

1,924,554

 

 

A+

 

$

1,976,512

 

 

A+

Munich Re of Malta (1)(2)

 

 

192,961

 

 

NR

 

 

200,362

 

 

NR

American Health and Life Insurance Company (1)

 

 

118,689

 

 

B++

 

 

121,666

 

 

B++

SCOR Global Life Reinsurance Companies (3)

 

 

110,509

 

 

A

 

 

119,615

 

 

A

Swiss Re Life & Health America Inc. (4)

 

 

43,414

 

 

A+

 

 

44,726

 

 

A+

RGA Reinsurance Company

 

 

40,319

 

 

A+

 

 

40,043

 

 

A+

Korean Reinsurance Company

 

 

29,757

 

 

A

 

 

30,372

 

 

A

Munich American Reassurance Company

 

 

19,087

 

 

A+

 

 

25,306

 

 

A+

All other reinsurers

 

 

2,207

 

 

-

 

 

7,845

 

 

-

Allowance for credit losses

 

 

(1,446

)

 

 

 

 

(1,495

)

 

 

Reinsurance recoverables

 

$

2,480,051

 

 

 

 

$

2,564,952

 

 

 

 

NR – not rated by AM 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 March 31, 2026.
(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 March 31,

 

 

 

2026

 

 

2025

 

 

 

(In thousands)

 

Balance, beginning of period

 

$

1,495

 

 

$

1,215

 

Current period (benefit) provision for expected credit losses

 

 

(49

)

 

 

(111

)

   Balance, at the end of period

 

$

1,446

 

 

$

1,104