Company: HIG-PG
Filing Date: 2025-07-28
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000874766-25-000084
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Company: HARTFORD INSURANCE GROUP, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-07-28
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 8
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, beginning of period$24 $27 $24 $26 Gross increases - tax positions in current period1 — 1 1 Balance, end of period$25 $27 $25 $27 The entire amount of unrecognized tax benefits, if recognized, would affect the effective tax rate in the period of the release. The Company believes it is reasonably possible approximately $14 of its currently unrecognized tax benefits may be recognized by the end of 2025 as a result of a lapse of the applicable statute of limitations.Other Tax MattersH.R.1, known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” was signed into law on July 4, 2025. This comprehensive budget reconciliation package consolidates a wide array of public policy priorities, reshaping federal policy across numerous sectors of the American economy, including taxation, healthcare, social safety nets, immigration, and education. The changes in H.R.1 are not expected to have a material impact on the Company's results of operations. The federal statute of limitations for the Company is closed through the 2020 tax year with the exception of net operating loss carryforwards utilized in open tax years and the Navigators pre-acquisition 2019 tax period. Management believes that adequate provision has been made in the Company's Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for any potential adjustments that may result from tax examinations and other tax-related matters for all open tax years.

13. Commitments and Contingencies Management evaluates each contingent matter separately. A loss is recorded if probable and reasonably estimable. Management establishes liabilities for these contingencies at its “best estimate,” or, if no one number within the range of possible losses is more probable than any other, the Company records an estimated liability at the low end of the range of losses.LitigationThe Hartford is involved in claims litigation arising in the ordinary course of business, both as a liability insurer defending or providing indemnity for third-party claims brought against insureds and as an insurer defending coverage claims brought against it. The Hartford accounts for such activity through the establishment of unpaid loss and loss adjustment expense reserves. Subject to the uncertainties related to sexual molestation and sexual abuse claims, including those discussed in Note 9 - Reserve for Unpaid Losses and Loss Adjustment Expenses of this Form 10-Q and in Note 10 - Reserve for Unpaid Losses and Loss Adjustment Expenses, of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, and in the following