This analysis could be improved by using
prior year reserve releases as a fraction of beginning of year reserves, and then discounting by 25 % each year.
3) On page 50 there is positive
prior year reserve development for the last three years.
Cigna's outlook excludes the impact of additional
prior year reserve development and potential effects of any future capital deployment.5
Underlying combined ratio represents the combined ratio excluding the impact of net
prior year reserve development and catastrophes.
Core income before income taxes increased due to higher net favorable
prior year reserve development as well as a strong underlying underwriting gain.
The combined ratio of 97.5 % increased 1.1 points due to a higher underlying combined ratio (1.1 points) and higher catastrophe losses (0.1 points), partially offset by higher net favorable
prior year reserve development (0.1 points).
The combined ratio of 95.5 % decreased 0.5 points due to higher net favorable
prior year reserve development (1.0 point), as well as a benefit (0.2 points) from catastrophes, partially offset by a higher underlying combined ratio (0.7 points).
The combined ratio of 74.7 % improved 4.7 points due to higher net favorable
prior year reserve development (3.4 points), a lower underlying combined ratio (1.2 points) and lower catastrophe losses (0.1 points).
The combined ratio of 97.5 % improved 2.1 points due to higher net favorable
prior year reserve development (1.7 points) and a benefit (0.8 points) from catastrophe losses, partially offset by a higher underlying combined ratio (0.4 points).
3N, 3P» which means for the last 5 years [2013 - 2009], Allstate had negative adjustments to
prior year reserves.
In 2008, it had to strengthen
prior year reserves.
2004 - 3, it had to strengthen
prior year reserves.
Other lines released
prior year reserves, though many released less than last year.
Not exact matches
In the opinion of the Company's management, a discussion of loss
reserve development is meaningful to users of the financial statements as it allows them to assess the impact between
prior and current
year development on incurred claims and claim adjustment expenses, net and core income (loss), and changes in claims and claim adjustment expense
reserve levels from period to period.
The most directly comparable GAAP financial measure is the combined ratio, which is computed by adding total incurred losses and LAE, including the impact of catastrophe losses and loss and LAE
reserve development from
prior years, with the insurance expense ratio.
Kemper believes the underlying combined ratio is useful to investors and is used by management to reveal the trends in Kemper's property and casualty insurance businesses that may be obscured by catastrophe losses and
prior -
year reserve development.
On Wednesday, Megna would not specify how much of the $ 850 million in
reserve was specifically going to be set aside for the
prior year Medicaid re-payments.
Local school officials who did respond cited the need to save existing programs, restore services cut in
prior years or conserve dwindling
reserve funds.
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Repeating from above, management teams that
reserve conservatively establish strong
reserves on current
year business, which depress current
year profits, but gain
reserve releases from
prior year strongly set
reserves.
But here is the
reserving story on AIG: up until 2000 AIG generally released
reserves for the business written in
prior years.
BRK still has a underwriting profit over the past eleven
years, and they continue to release
reserves from
prior year claims.
Good companies establish strong
reserves on current
year business, which depress current
year profits, but gain
reserve releases from
prior year strongly set
reserves.
A key figure in reviewing
reserving is how much a company increases or reduces
reserves due to claims from business written in
prior years.
One final note on the table: 2004 and after, AIG adjusted their
prior year incurred figures for foreign exchange fluctuations, and interest that needed to be accrued, because they discounted their
reserves.
Over the last three
years, the amount of
reserves from
prior years deemed to be in excess of what was needed has fallen, even as gross
reserves have risen.
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