Company: L
Filing Date: 2025-11-03
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000060086-25-000181
Chunk: 99

Company: LOEWS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-11-03
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
Chunk 99
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 billion and billed third party reinsurance receivables related to A&EP claims with a net book value of $215 million were transferred to NICO, resulting in total consideration of $2.2 billion.In years subsequent to the effective date of the LPT, adverse prior year development on A&EP reserves was recognized resulting in additional amounts ceded under the LPT. As a result, the cumulative amounts ceded under the LPT have exceeded the $2.2 billion consideration paid, resulting in the NICO LPT moving into a gain position, requiring retroactive reinsurance accounting. Under retroactive reinsurance accounting, this gain is deferred and only recognized in earnings in proportion to actual paid recoveries under the LPT. Over the life of the contract, there is no economic impact as long as any additional losses incurred are within the limit of the LPT. In a period in which a change in the estimate of A&EP reserves is recognized that increases or decreases the amounts ceded under the LPT, the proportion of actual paid recoveries to total ceded losses is affected and the change in the deferred gain is recognized in earnings as if the revised estimate of ceded 

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losses was available at the effective date of the LPT. The effect of the deferred retroactive reinsurance benefit is recorded in Insurance claims and policyholders’ benefits on the Consolidated Condensed Statements of Operations.The impact of the LPT on the Consolidated Condensed Statements of Operations was the recognition of a retroactive reinsurance benefit of $14 million and $11 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 and $39 million and $36 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024. As of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the cumulative amounts ceded under the LPT were $3.7 billion. The unrecognized deferred retroactive reinsurance benefit was $386 million and $425 million as of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024 and is included within Other liabilities on the Consolidated Condensed Balance Sheets.NICO established a collateral trust account as security for its obligations under the LPT. The fair value of the collateral trust account was $2.3 billion as of September 30, 2025. In addition, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. guaranteed the payment obligations of NICO up to the aggregate reinsurance limit as well as certain of NICO’s performance obligations under