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Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024
−Removed: Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss) for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023
+Added: Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024
Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024
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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
−Removed: To the Shareholders and Board of Directors
−Removed: Atlantic American Corporation
+Added: Report of Independent Registered
+Added: Public Accounting Firm
+Added: and Board of Directors
+Added: American Corporation
Atlanta, Georgia
−Removed: Opinion on the Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Atlantic American Corporation (the Company) as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the
−Removed: related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive loss, shareholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2024 and the related notes (collectively referred to as the consolidated financial
−Removed: In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2024, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United
−Removed: States of America (US GAAP).
−Removed: Basis for Opinion
−Removed: These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management.
−Removed: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the
−Removed: Company’s consolidated financial statements based on our audits.
−Removed: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be
−Removed: independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
−Removed: federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
−Removed: We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB.
−Removed: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable
−Removed: assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
−Removed: The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial
−Removed: As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial
−Removed: Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
−Removed: Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error
−Removed: or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks.
−Removed: Such procedures include examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: Our audits also included evaluating the
−Removed: accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
−Removed: Critical Audit Matters
−Removed: The critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from the current period audit of the consolidated financial statements that were
+Added: on the Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Atlantic American
+Added: Corporation (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the related
+Added: consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income, shareholders’
+Added: equity, and cash flows for each of the years in the two-year period ended December
+Added: 31, 2025, and the related notes and schedules II (Condensed Financial Information
+Added: of Registrant), III (Supplementary Insurance Information), IV (Reinsurance Information)
+Added: and VI (Supplemental Information Concerning Property-Casualty Insurance Operations)
+Added: (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”).
+Added: opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present
+Added: fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December
+Added: 31, 2025 and 2024, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for
+Added: each of the years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2025, in conformity
+Added: with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“US
+Added: in Accounting Principle
+Added: discussed in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company
+Added: changed its method of accounting and presentation related to long-duration
+Added: contracts and certain related balances effective January 1, 2025, with a
+Added: transition date of January 1, 2024 due to the adoption of Accounting Standards
+Added: 2018-12, Financial Services – Insurance (Topic 944):
+Added: Improvements to the Accounting for Long-Duration Contracts, as amended (“ASU
+Added: consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s
+Added: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s consolidated
+Added: financial statements based on our audits.
+Added: are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting
+Added: Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent
+Added: with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
+Added: federal securities laws
+Added: and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange
+Added: Commission and the PCAOB.
+Added: conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB.
+Added: standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable
+Added: assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of
+Added: material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
+Added: The Company is not
+Added: required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal
+Added: control over financial reporting.
+Added: As part of our audit, we are required to
+Added: obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not
+Added: for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s
+Added: internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: Accordingly, we express no such
+Added: audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material
+Added: misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or
+Added: fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks.
+Added: Such procedures
+Added: include examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and
+Added: disclosures in the consolidated financial statements.
+Added: Our audits also included
+Added: evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by
+Added: management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated
+Added: financial statements.
+Added: We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for
+Added: and Board of Directors
+Added: American Corporation
+Added: Audit Matters
+Added: critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from the
+Added: current-period audit of the consolidated financial statements that were
communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that:
−Removed: (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the consolidated financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex
−Removed: The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matters below, providing separate opinions on the
−Removed: critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.
−Removed: Shareholders and Board of Directors
−Removed: Atlantic American Corporation
+Added: (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the consolidated financial
+Added: statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex
+Added: The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any
+Added: way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and
+Added: we are not, by communicating the critical audit matters below, providing separate
+Added: opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to
+Added: which they relate.
Valuation of Insurance Reserves for Losses and Claims (Claim Reserves)
−Removed: As reflected on the consolidated balance sheet and discussed in Note 7 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company’s insurance reserves for
−Removed: losses and claims (claim reserves), were $93.7 million as of December 31, 2024.
−Removed: The Company’s claim reserves relate primarily to its property casualty lines of business and Medicare supplement business.
+Added: As reflected on the
+Added: consolidated balance sheet and discussed in Note 8 to the consolidated
+Added: financial statements, the Company’s insurance reserves for losses and claims (“claim
+Added: reserves”), were $113.8 million as of December 31, 2025.
+Added: The Company’s claim
+Added: reserves relate primarily to its property casualty lines of business and
+Added: Medicare supplement business.
The process of establishing claim reserves
−Removed: requires the use of estimates and judgments based on circumstances underlying the insured loss at the date of accrual.
−Removed: Management’s judgments include claims adjusters’ evaluations for unpaid claims reported prior to the close of the accounting
−Removed: period, estimates of incurred but not reported (IBNR) claims based on past experience and estimates of loss adjustment expenses.
−Removed: The principal considerations for our determination that the valuation of claim reserves is a critical audit matter are the high degree of judgment and
−Removed: subjectivity in auditing the actuarial methods and assumptions used in the valuation process, including assumptions around expected loss ratios and reported and paid loss emergence patterns.
−Removed: Addressing the matter involved performing the following audit procedures, among others:
+Added: requires the use of estimates and judgments based on circumstances underlying the
+Added: insured loss at the date of accrual.
+Added: Management’s judgments include claims
+Added: adjusters’ evaluations for unpaid claims reported prior to the close of the
+Added: accounting period, estimates of incurred but not reported (“IBNR”) claims based
+Added: on past experience and estimates of loss adjustment expenses.
+Added: The principal
+Added: considerations for our determination that the valuation of claim reserves is a
+Added: critical audit matter are the high degree of judgment and subjectivity in
+Added: auditing the actuarial methods and assumptions used in the valuation process,
+Added: including assumptions around expected loss ratios and reported and paid loss
+Added: emergence patterns.
+Added: Addressing the matter
+Added: involved performing the following audit procedures, among others:
Involving our actuarial specialists to assist in our procedures in:
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Testing the completeness and accuracy of data provided by management that served as the basis for the actuarial analyses on a sample basis;
−Removed: Evaluating movement of the Company’s recorded property casualty claim reserves within the Company’s estimated reserve range year over year.
−Removed: Valuation of Insurance Reserves for Future Policy Benefits (Policy Reserves)
−Removed: As reflected on the consolidated balance sheet and discussed in Note 7 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company’s insurance reserves for
−Removed: future policy benefits (policy reserves) were $98.5 million as of December 31, 2024.
−Removed: Policy reserves are related to life and health insurance policies and are based upon significant assumptions including future investment yields, mortality rates,
−Removed: withdrawal rates and expenses after giving effect to possible risks of unexpected claim experience.
−Removed: These assumptions are based on historical experience modified as necessary to reflect anticipated trends and are generally established at contract
−Removed: The principal considerations for our determination that the valuation of policy reserves is a critical audit matter are the high degree of judgment
−Removed: required to assess certain assumptions that impact policy reserves and the complexity of the actuarial calculations.
−Removed: Addressing the matter involved performing the following audit procedures, among others:
−Removed: Involving our actuarial specialists to assist in our procedures in:
−Removed: Evaluating whether the methodology applied by management is consistent in the aggregate with the methodology compliant with US GAAP;
−Removed: Assessing the significant assumptions used by management for new insurance contracts issued during the current year by comparing the significant assumptions noted
−Removed: above to historical experience, observable market data or management’s estimates of prospective changes to these assumptions;
−Removed: Reviewing benefit reserve replication workbooks prepared by management for a sample of contracts;
+Added: Evaluating the movement of the Company’s recorded property casualty claim reserves within the Company’s estimated reserve range year over year.
+Added: Valuation of Insurance Reserves for Future Policy Benefits (Policy
+Added: As reflected on the
+Added: consolidated balance sheet and discussed in Notes 1 and 7 to the consolidated
+Added: financial statements, the Company’s insurance reserves for future policy
+Added: benefits (“policy reserves”) were $84.7 million as of December 31, 2025.
+Added: Company adopted ASU 2018-12, effective January 1, 2025 with a transition date
+Added: of January 1, 2024 (See Change in Accounting Principle explanatory paragraph
+Added: As part of the adoption, policy reserves were remeasured using the
+Added: modified retrospective transition method.
+Added: Policy reserves are related to long-duration
+Added: life and health insurance policies and are based upon significant management
+Added: assumptions including mortality, morbidity, policyholder lapses and other
+Added: termination rates, claim costs, loss ratios, anticipated premium-rate increases,
+Added: discount rates and expenses.
+Added: These assumptions are based on historical
+Added: experience modified as necessary to reflect anticipated trends and are
+Added: established at contract inception and updated at least annually.
Shareholders and Board of Directors
Atlantic American Corporation
−Removed: Evaluating management’s loss recognition testing of aggregate reserve sufficiency.
−Removed: Testing the completeness and accuracy of data used by management in developing assumptions on a sample basis.
−Removed: /s/ Forvis Mazars, LLP
−Removed: We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2018.
−Removed: Atlanta, Georgia
−Removed: March 25, 2025
+Added: The principal
+Added: considerations for our determination that the valuation of policy reserves is a
+Added: critical audit matter are the high degree of judgment and involvement of
+Added: actuarial specialists required to assess certain assumptions that impact reserves
+Added: for future policy benefits, the complexity of the underling actuarial
+Added: calculations and the judgment and complexity of adopting ASU 2018-12 in the
+Added: current period.
+Added: Addressing the matter
+Added: involved performing the following audit procedures, among others:
+Added: Involving our actuarial specialists to assist in our procedures in:
+Added: Evaluating whether the methodology applied by management is consistent in the aggregate with the methodology compliant with US GAAP;
+Added: Assessing the significant assumptions used by management for new insurance contracts issued during the current year by comparing the significant assumptions noted above to historical experience, observable market data or management’s estimates of prospective changes to these assumptions;
+Added: Evaluating whether significant assumptions were applied in the valuation model as intended on a sample basis.
+Added: Testing the completeness and accuracy of data used by management in developing the valuation and evaluating the valuation on a sample basis.
+Added: Reviewing the adequacy of the Company’s disclosures related to the transition impact as well as the ongoing disclosure requirements under ASU 2018-12.
+Added: have served as the Company’s auditor since 2018.
ATLANTIC AMERICAN CORPORATION
−Removed: BALANCE SHEETS
−Removed: (In thousands,
−Removed: except share and per
+Added: CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
+Added: (In thousands, except share and per share data)
Cash and cash equivalents
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$ 7,946 and $ 7,946 )
−Removed: Investment in unconsolidated trusts
+Added: Investment in unconsolidated trusts (cost:
+Added: $ 1,238 and $ 1,238 )
Total investments
Reinsurance (net of allowance for uncollectible reinsurance of $ 58 and $ 73 )
−Removed: Insurance premiums and other (net of allowance for expected credit losses $ 201
+Added: Insurance premiums and other (net of allowance for expected credit losses $ 189 and $ 201 )
Deferred income taxes, net
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Preferred stock, $ 1 par, 4,000,000 shares authorized;
−Removed: Series D preferred, 55,000
−Removed: shares issued and outstanding;
+Added: Series D preferred, 55,000 shares issued and outstanding;
$ 5,500 redemption value
Common stock, $ 1 par, 50,000,000 shares authorized;
−Removed: 22,400,894 shares
−Removed: 20,399,758 and 20,402,288
−Removed: shares outstanding as of 2024 and 2023 , respectively
+Added: 22,400,894 shares issued;
+Added: $ 20,397,228 and 20,399,758 shares outstanding as of 2025 and 2024, respectively
Additional paid-in capital
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ATLANTIC AMERICAN CORPORATION
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF
+Added: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
Year Ended December 31
−Removed: (In thousands,
−Removed: except per share data)
+Added: (In thousands, except share and per share data)
Insurance premiums, net
Net investment income
−Removed: Realized investment gains, net
−Removed: Unrealized losses on equity securities, net
+Added: Realized investment gains (losses), net
+Added: Unrealized gains (losses) on equity securities, net
Total revenue
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Insurance benefits and losses incurred
+Added: Future policy benefits remeasurement gain
Commissions and underwriting expenses
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Total benefits and expenses
−Removed: Loss before income taxes
−Removed: Income tax benefit
+Added: Income (loss) before income taxes
+Added: Income tax expense (benefit)
+Added: Net income (loss)
Preferred stock dividends
−Removed: Net loss applicable to common shareholders
−Removed: Loss per common share (basic and diluted)
+Added: Net income (loss) applicable to common shareholders
+Added: Earnings (loss) per common share (basic)
+Added: Earnings (loss) per common share (diluted)
See the accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.
ATLANTIC AMERICAN CORPORATION
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF
−Removed: COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)
+Added: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
Year Ended December 31
(In thousands)
−Removed: Other comprehensive gain (loss):
−Removed: Available-for-sale fixed maturity securities:
−Removed: Gross unrealized holding gain (loss) arising in the period
−Removed: Related income tax effect
−Removed: reclassification adjustment for net realized gains included in net income
−Removed: Related income tax effect
−Removed: Total other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax
−Removed: Total comprehensive income (loss)
+Added: Net income (loss)
+Added: Other comprehensive gain:
+Added: Gross unrealized holding gain (loss) on available-for-sale fixed maturities
+Added: Reclassification adjustment for net realized gains (losses) included in net income (loss)
+Added: Change in future policy benefit due to change in discount rate
+Added: Related income tax (expense) benefit
+Added: Total other comprehensive income, net of tax
+Added: Total comprehensive income
See the accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.
ATLANTIC AMERICAN CORPORATION
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF
−Removed: SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
+Added: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Year Ended December 31,
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Balance, beginning of year
−Removed: Cumulative effect of adoption of updated accounting guidance for credit losses at January 1, 2023
+Added: Cumulative effect from the adoption of new accounting standards, net of tax
+Added: Net income (loss)
Dividends on common stock
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Balance, beginning of year
−Removed: Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax
+Added: Cumulative effect from the adoption of new accounting standards, net of tax
+Added: Other comprehensive income, net of tax
Balance, end of year
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ATLANTIC AMERICAN CORPORATION
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF
+Added: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
Year Ended December 31,
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Cash flows from operating activities:
−Removed: Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
+Added: Net income (loss)
+Added: Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by operating activities:
Amortization of deferred acquisition costs
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Realized investment gains, net
−Removed: Unrealized losses on equity securities, net
+Added: Other than temporary impairment loss on available for sale securities
+Added: Unrealized (gains) losses on equity securities, net
Losses from equity method investees
Compensation expense related to share awards
−Removed: (Benefit) provision for credit losses
+Added: Benefit for credit losses
Depreciation and amortization
Deferred income tax benefit
−Removed: Increase in receivables, net
+Added: (Increase) decrease in receivables, net
Increase in insurance reserves and policyholder funds
−Removed: Increase (decrease) in accounts payable and accrued expenses
+Added: Increase in accounts payable and accrued expenses
Net cash provided by operating activities
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Additions to property and equipment
−Removed: Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities
+Added: Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities
Cash flows from financing activities:
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Net cash provided by financing activities
−Removed: Net increase (decrease) in cash
+Added: Net increase in cash
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year
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Cash paid for interest
−Removed: Cash paid for income taxes
+Added: Cash paid for federal income taxes
+Added: Cash paid for state income taxes
See the accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.
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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
−Removed: Principles of Consolidation
−Removed: The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United
−Removed: States of America (“GAAP”) which, for insurance companies, differ in some respects from the statutory accounting practices prescribed or permitted by regulatory authorities.
−Removed: These financial statements include the accounts of Atlantic American
−Removed: Corporation (“Atlantic American” or the “Parent”) and its subsidiaries (collectively with the Parent, the “Company”).
−Removed: All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
−Removed: Operating results achieved in any
−Removed: historical period are not necessarily indicative of results to be expected in any future period.
−Removed: At December 31, 2024, the Parent owned five
−Removed: insurance subsidiaries, Bankers Fidelity Life Insurance Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Bankers Fidelity Assurance Company and Atlantic Capital Life Assurance Company (together known as “Bankers Fidelity”), and American Southern
−Removed: Insurance Company and its wholly-owned subsidiary, American Safety Insurance Company.
−Removed: American Southern Insurance Company also wholly-owned three
−Removed: non-insurance subsidiaries, Premier Adjusting and Claim Services, Inc., Automobile Safety Management, Inc.
+Added: Atlantic American Corporation (“Atlantic American” or the “Parent”), a Georgia corporation incorporated in 1968, is an insurance holding company.
+Added: Atlantic American and its consolidated subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) provide life and health and property and casualty insurance products through two operating groups:
+Added: Bankers Fidelity and American Southern.
+Added: As of December 31, 2025, Bankers Fidelity consisted of Bankers Fidelity Life Insurance Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Bankers Fidelity Assurance Company and Atlantic Capital Life Assurance Company.
+Added: Southern consisted of American Southern Insurance Company;
+Added: its wholly owned insurance subsidiary, American Safety Insurance Company;
+Added: and its wholly owned non-insurance subsidiaries, Premier Adjusting and Claim Services, Inc., Automobile Safety
+Added: Management, Inc.
and Automated Systems of Georgia, Inc.
−Removed: (together with American Southern Insurance Company and American Safety Insurance Company known as
−Removed: “American Southern”).
−Removed: In addition, the Parent owned one non-insurance subsidiary, xCalibre Risk Services, Inc.
−Removed: The Parent has issued a
−Removed: guarantee of all liabilities of Bankers Fidelity.
−Removed: Premium Revenue and Cost Recognition
−Removed: Life insurance premiums are recognized as revenue when due;
−Removed: accident and health insurance premiums are recognized as revenue over the premium paying
−Removed: period and property and casualty insurance premiums are recognized as revenue over the period of the contract in proportion to the amount of insurance protection provided.
−Removed: Losses, benefits and expenses are accrued as incurred and are associated
−Removed: with premiums as they are earned so as to result in recognition of profits over the lives of the contracts.
−Removed: For traditional life insurance and long-duration health insurance, this association is accomplished by the provision of a future policy
−Removed: benefits reserve and the deferral and subsequent amortization of the costs of acquiring business, which are referred to as “deferred policy acquisition costs” (principally commissions, premium taxes, and other incremental direct costs of issuing
−Removed: Deferred policy acquisition costs (“DAC”) are amortized over the estimated premium-paying period of the related policies using assumptions consistent with those used in computing the future policy benefits reserve.
−Removed: The Company provides
−Removed: for insurance benefits and losses on accident, health, and property-casualty claims based upon estimates of projected ultimate losses.
−Removed: DAC for property and casualty insurance and short-duration health insurance is amortized over the effective
−Removed: period of the related insurance policies.
−Removed: Contingent commissions, if contractually applicable, are ultimately payable to agents based on the underlying profitability of a particular insurance contract or a group of insurance contracts, and are
−Removed: periodically evaluated and accrued as earned.
−Removed: In periods in which revisions are made to the estimated loss reserves related to the particular insurance contract or group of insurance contracts subject to such commissions, corresponding adjustments
−Removed: are also made to the related accruals.
−Removed: DAC is expensed when such costs are deemed not to be recoverable from future premiums (for traditional life and long-duration health insurance) and from the related unearned premiums and investment income (for
−Removed: property and casualty and short-duration health insurance).
+Added: The Parent also owned xCalibre Risk Services, Inc., a non-insurance subsidiary.
+Added: Basis of Presentation and Consolidation
+Added: The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) under guidance issued by the
+Added: Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) and include the accounts of the Parent and its subsidiaries.
+Added: All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
+Added: The Company’s insurance subsidiaries also prepare
+Added: financial statements in accordance with statutory accounting practices prescribed or permitted by their respective state insurance regulatory authorities, which differ from GAAP.
+Added: The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with
+Added: GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues
+Added: and expenses during the reporting period.
+Added: Adoption of ASU 2018-12—Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Long-Duration Contracts.
+Added: Effective January 1, 2025, the Company adopted Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No.
+Added: 2018-12, Financial Services—Insurance (Topic 944):
+Added: Targeted Improvements to
+Added: the Accounting for Long-Duration Contracts , as subsequently amended by ASU Nos.
+Added: 2019-09, 2020-11 and 2022-05 (collectively, “LDTI”).
+Added: The Company applied LDTI using the modified retrospective transition method as of January 1, 2024 (the
+Added: “Transition Date”) to its whole life, Medicare Supplement and certain guaranteed-renewable accident and health insurance products.
+Added: Accordingly, amounts previously reported as of and for the year ended December 31, 2024, have been adjusted to conform
+Added: to LDTI’s recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosure requirements.
+Added: The effects of adoption as of the Transition Date are summarized below, and additional disaggregated information is presented in Notes 7, 8 and 9.
+Added: Use of Estimates
+Added: The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the consolidated financial
+Added: statements and accompanying notes.
+Added: Significant estimates include, among others, liabilities for future policy benefits, unpaid claims and claim adjustment expenses, reinsurance recoverables, deferred policy acquisition costs, the valuation and
+Added: impairment of investments, and deferred income taxes.
+Added: These estimates and assumptions are based on information available as of the date of the consolidated financial statements and are reviewed periodically as additional information becomes
+Added: Changes in estimates are recognized in the period in which they are determined.
+Added: Actual results could differ from these estimates.
+Added: Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
+Added: Cash and Cash Equivalents
+Added: Cash and cash equivalents consist of cash on hand and investments in short-term, highly liquid securities with original maturities of three months or less from date of purchase.
+Added: Fixed Maturity and Equity Securities
+Added: The Company’s investments in fixed maturity securities, which include bonds and redeemable preferred stocks, are classified as “available-for-sale” and, accordingly, are carried at fair value with
+Added: the after-tax difference from amortized cost, less allowance for credit losses (“ACL”), as adjusted if applicable, reflected in shareholders’ equity as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income or loss (“AOCI”).
+Added: The Company’s equity
+Added: securities, which include common and non-redeemable preferred stocks, are carried at fair value with changes in fair value reported in net income.
+Added: The fair values of fixed maturity securities and equity securities are largely determined from publicly
+Added: quoted market prices, when available, or independent broker quotations.
+Added: Values that are not determined using quoted market prices inherently involve a greater degree of judgment and uncertainty and therefore ultimately greater price volatility than
+Added: the value of securities with publicly quoted market prices.
+Added: Income from investments is recorded in net investment income on the Consolidated Statement of Operations.
+Added: Gains and losses from sales, maturities, or other redemptions of investments are recorded in
+Added: realized investment gains (losses).
+Added: Gains and losses on the disposition of investments are determined on a specific identification basis.
+Added: Interest income and prepayment fees are recognized when earned.
+Added: Premiums and discounts related to investments are amortized or accreted over the life of the related investment as an adjustment to yield using the effective interest method.
+Added: Dividends and interest
+Added: income are recognized when earned or declared.
+Added: The cost of securities sold is based on specific identification.
+Added: Unrealized gains (losses) in the value of fixed maturity securities are accounted for as a direct increase (decrease) in Other
+Added: Comprehensive Income (“OCI”), net of deferred tax and, accordingly, have no effect on net income.
+Added: Policy loans are carried at unpaid principal balance and are fully collateralized by the cash surrender value of the underlying insurance contract.
+Added: Interest income is recorded as earned using the contractual interest
+Added: rate, in net investment income in the Consolidated Statement of Operations.
+Added: Variable Interest Entities
+Added: The Company holds passive interests in certain limited partnerships, limited liability companies and unconsolidated trusts that are considered variable interest entities (“VIEs”).
+Added: Because the Company
+Added: does not have the power to direct the activities that most significantly affect the economic performance of these entities, it is not the primary beneficiary and does not consolidate the VIEs.
+Added: The limited partnership and limited liability company
+Added: interests are accounted for using the equity method and presented as a single investment balance within other invested assets in the Consolidated Balance Sheets.
+Added: Each investment is initially recorded at cost and subsequently increased or decreased
+Added: for the Company’s allocable share of the investee’s net income or loss, which is recognized in net investment income in the Consolidated Statements of Operations.
+Added: Contributions increase the carrying amount of the investment, while distributions
+Added: generally reduce it.
+Added: Investee results are recorded using the most recent financial information available, generally on a same-period basis with adjustments for material intervening events when necessary.
+Added: Investments in unconsolidated trusts are
+Added: presented separately in the Consolidated Balance Sheets and are carried at cost.
+Added: The Company’s maximum exposure to loss generally consists of the carrying amounts of its investments and related unfunded commitments, and the Company has no obligation
+Added: to provide financial support beyond those commitments.
+Added: The Company evaluates its equity-method investments for impairment at least quarterly and recognizes any other-than-temporary decline in value as a reduction of the investment’s carrying amount
+Added: and a charge to net investment income.
+Added: The Company purchases reinsurance from unaffiliated reinsurers to reduce exposure to significant individual risks and catastrophic events.
+Added: The Reinsurance arrangements do not legally discharge the
+Added: insurer from primary liability for the full amount of the policies written by it, and the ceding company will incur a loss if the reinsurer fails to meet its obligations under the reinsurance agreement.
+Added: In order to qualify for reinsurance accounting
+Added: treatment, there must be a risk transfer.
+Added: Insurance liabilities are reported gross of reinsurance.
+Added: Amounts recoverable from reinsurers are recognized separately as reinsurance recoverables and are reduced by an allowance for expected credit
+Added: The allowance reflects management’s estimate of amounts that may not be collected and considers the financial condition of reinsurers, historical collection experience, current conditions, reasonable and supportable forecasts, collateral and
+Added: other relevant factors.
+Added: For ceded long-duration insurance contracts, reinsurance recoverables are measured using assumptions consistent with those used to measure the underlying direct insurance contracts, adjusted for the
+Added: terms and conditions of the applicable reinsurance agreements.
+Added: Changes resulting from actual experience and updates to future cash-flow assumptions are recognized in earnings.
+Added: Effects attributable solely to changes in current discount rates are
+Added: recognized in other comprehensive income.
+Added: Bankers Fidelity has entered reinsurance contracts ceding a proportionate share of new Medicare Supplement business and the excess of its life retention to General Re Life Corporation.
+Added: Ceding thresholds are
+Added: set for all policies issued in a given calendar year.
+Added: For ceded short-duration insurance contracts, ceded premiums are recognized as a reduction of premium revenue over the coverage period in proportion to the insurance protection provided.
+Added: recoverable for ceded claims and claim adjustment expenses are recognized as reductions of the related benefits and claims expense.
+Added: Ceded unearned premiums and recoverables for unpaid claims are included in reinsurance recoverables.
+Added: Southern’s basic reinsurance treaties generally cover all claims in excess of specified per occurrence limitations.
Insurance Premiums and Other Receivables
−Removed: Receivables amounts due from reinsurers, insureds and agents are evaluated
−Removed: periodically for collectability.
−Removed: Allowances for expected credit losses are established, as and when a loss has been determined probable, against the related receivable.
−Removed: An allowance for expected credit loss is recognized by the Company when
−Removed: determined on a specific account basis and a general provision for loss is made based on the Company’s historical and expected experience.
+Added: Insurance premiums and other receivables are reported at the amounts expected to be collected, net of allowances for expected credit losses.
+Added: The allowance is estimated using historical collection
+Added: experience, current conditions, reasonable and supportable forecasts and information specific to individual insureds, agents and other counterparties.
+Added: Receivables are written off when they are determined to be uncollectible.
+Added: Recoveries of amounts
+Added: previously written off are recognized when received.
+Added: Deferred Acquisition Costs
+Added: Deferred Acquisition Costs (“DAC”) represent commissions, premium taxes and other incremental direct costs that result directly from and are essential to the successful acquisition of insurance
+Added: contracts and would not have been incurred had the contracts not been issued.
+Added: Long-Duration Contracts
+Added: DAC associated with long-duration contracts is grouped on a basis consistent with the related insurance contracts and amortized on a constant-level basis over the expected term of those contracts.
+Added: remaining term is calculated based on assumptions of expected mortality, lapses, and other contract terminations that are consistent with the assumptions used to measure the related liability for future policy benefits.
+Added: These assumptions are
+Added: reviewed at least annually and are updated as warranted whenever experience changes significantly.
+Added: Actual contract terminations are reflected in the amortization calculation when they occur.
+Added: Short-Duration Contracts
+Added: DAC associated with short-duration contracts is amortized over the related coverage period in proportion to premium revenue recognized.
+Added: The Company evaluates the recoverability of short-duration DAC
+Added: when indications exist that expected claims, claim adjustment expenses, maintenance costs and other related expenses may exceed anticipated premium revenue.
+Added: If a premium deficiency exists, DAC is reduced to the extent necessary, and an additional
+Added: liability is recognized for any remaining deficiency.
Intangibles consist of goodwill and other indefinite-lived intangible assets.
−Removed: Goodwill represents the excess of cost over the fair value of net
−Removed: assets acquired and is not amortized.
+Added: Goodwill represents the excess of cost over the fair value of net assets acquired and is not amortized.
Other indefinite-lived intangibles represent the value of licenses and are not amortized.
−Removed: The Company periodically reviews its goodwill and other indefinite-lived intangibles to determine if any adverse
−Removed: conditions exist that could indicate impairment.
−Removed: Conditions that could trigger impairment include, but are not limited to, a significant change in business climate that could affect the value of the related asset, an adverse action, or an
−Removed: assessment by a regulator.
+Added: The Company periodically reviews its goodwill and other indefinite-lived intangibles to determine if any adverse conditions exist that could indicate impairment.
+Added: Conditions that could trigger impairment include, but are not limited to, a significant change in business climate that could affect the value of the related asset, an adverse action, or an assessment by a regulator.
No impairment of the Company’s recorded intangibles was identified during any of the periods presented.
−Removed: The Company’s investments in fixed maturities, which include bonds and redeemable preferred stocks, are classified as “available-for-sale” and,
−Removed: accordingly, are carried at fair value with the after-tax difference from amortized cost, less allowance for credit losses (“ACL”), as adjusted if applicable, reflected in shareholders’ equity as a component of accumulated other comprehensive
−Removed: income or loss.
−Removed: The Company’s equity securities, which include common and non-redeemable preferred stocks, are carried at fair value with changes in fair value reported in net income.
−Removed: The fair values of fixed maturities and equity securities are
−Removed: largely determined from publicly quoted market prices, when available, or independent broker quotations.
−Removed: Values that are not determined using quoted market prices inherently involve a greater degree of judgment and uncertainty and therefore
−Removed: ultimately greater price volatility than the value of securities with publicly quoted market prices.
−Removed: loans are carried at unpaid principal balance and are fully collateralized by the cash surrender value of the underlying insurance contract.
−Removed: Real estate is carried at historical cost and is evaluated for impairment when circumstances would
−Removed: indicate that fair value may be less than carrying value.
−Removed: Company holds passive interests in a number of entities that are considered to be variable interest entities (“VIEs”) under GAAP guidance.
−Removed: The Company’s VIE interests principally consist of interests in limited partnerships and limited
−Removed: liability companies formed for the purpose of achieving diversified equity returns, which are included in other invested assets on the balance sheet and are accounted for using the equity method.
−Removed: The Company does not have power over the
−Removed: activities that most significantly impact the economic performance of these VIEs and thus is not the primary beneficiary.
−Removed: Therefore, the Company has not consolidated these VIEs.
−Removed: Also included in the Company’s VIEs are investments in
−Removed: unconsolidated trusts, which are presented on the balance sheet and carried at cost.
−Removed: The Company’s involvement with each VIE is limited to its direct ownership interest in the VIE.
−Removed: The Company has no arrangements with any of the VIEs to provide
−Removed: other financial support to or on behalf of the VIE.
−Removed: The Company reviews its investments in other invested assets for impairment no less frequently than quarterly and monitors the performance throughout the year.
−Removed: If the Company becomes aware of
−Removed: an impairment of an other invested asset at the balance sheet date, it will recognize an impairment by recording a reduction in the carrying value of the other invested asset with a corresponding charge to net investment income.
−Removed: Premiums and discounts related to investments are amortized or accreted over the life of the related investment as an adjustment to yield using the
−Removed: effective interest method.
−Removed: Dividends and interest income are recognized when earned or declared.
−Removed: The cost of securities sold is based on specific identification.
−Removed: Unrealized gains (losses) in the value of fixed maturities are accounted for as a
−Removed: direct increase (decrease) in accumulated other comprehensive income in shareholders’ equity, net of deferred tax and, accordingly, have no effect on net income.
+Added: The Company determines whether an arrangement contains a lease at contract inception.
+Added: Right-of-use assets and lease liabilities for operating leases are recognized at the lease commencement date.
+Added: Lease liabilities are measured at the present value of fixed lease payments over the lease term.
+Added: The Company uses the rate implicit in the lease when that rate is readily determinable;
+Added: otherwise, it uses its incremental borrowing rate at lease
+Added: commencement.
+Added: The lease term includes renewal and termination options when the Company is reasonably certain to exercise those options.
+Added: Operating lease expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease
+Added: Operating lease right-of-use assets are included in other assets, and operating lease liabilities are included in other liabilities in the Consolidated Balance Sheets.
+Added: Policy Benefits, Claims and Insurance Reserves
+Added: Insurance reserves represent management’s estimates of the Company’s obligations under insurance and investment contracts in force as of the balance sheet date.
+Added: These reserves principally include the
+Added: Liability for Future Policy Benefits (“LFPB”) under long-duration contracts, deposit liabilities associated with investment contracts, and liabilities for unpaid claims and claim-related expenses under both short and long-duration insurance
+Added: For long-duration insurance contracts, the LFPB includes the present value of expected future policy benefits and related expenses, less the present value of expected future net premiums.
+Added: also includes liabilities associated with claims incurred for long-duration contracts, including reported claims, claims incurred but not reported (“IBNR”), claims in the course of settlement and related claim adjustment expenses.
+Added: Accordingly, claim
+Added: liabilities associated with Medicare Supplement, life and other long-duration accident and health products are included in LFPB and the liability for losses and claims in the Consolidated Balance Sheet.
+Added: For short-duration insurance contracts, liabilities for unpaid claims and claim adjustment expenses relate to insured events that have occurred on or before the balance sheet date and include
+Added: reported claims, expected development on reported claims, IBNR and related claim adjustment expenses.
+Added: These liabilities are reported within losses and claims in the Consolidated Balance Sheets.
+Added: Insurance liabilities are reported gross of reinsurance, and amounts recoverable from reinsurers are reported separately as an asset within reinsurance receivables in the Consolidated Balance Sheet.
+Added: The use of reinsurance does not relieve the Company of its obligations to policyholders.
+Added: Long-Duration Contracts
+Added: The Company’s long-duration contracts principally include individual life, group whole life, Medicare Supplement and certain guaranteed-renewable individual accident and health insurance products.
+Added: The LFPB is measured at the cohort level as the present value of expected future benefit payments and related claim expenses, less the present value of expected future net premiums.
+Added: Expected future cash flows are projected through the period in which
+Added: the related contracts are expected to remain in force.
+Added: Such liabilities are established based on methods and underlying assumptions in accordance with GAAP and applicable actuarial standards.
+Added: Cash-flow assumptions are incorporated into the calculation of a cohort and include mortality, morbidity, policyholder lapses and other termination rates, claim costs, loss
+Added: ratios, anticipated premium-rate increases and expenses.
+Added: For life insurance products, significant assumptions principally include mortality and voluntary lapses.
+Added: For Medicare Supplement products, significant assumptions principally include incurred
+Added: loss ratios, anticipated premium-rate increases and total termination rates.
+Added: For other long-duration accident and health products, significant assumptions principally include claim costs and total termination rates.
+Added: These assumptions reflect
+Added: management’s current best estimates of future experience without provision for adverse deviation and are based on Company experience, relevant industry data and anticipated future trends.
+Added: Actual experience through the reporting date is incorporated into the measurement each reporting period.
+Added: Assumptions regarding future cash flows are reviewed at least annually and updated more
+Added: frequently when evidence indicates that revisions are warranted.
+Added: Differences between actual and expected experience and changes in future cash-flow assumptions are recognized in earnings as remeasurement gains or losses within insurance benefits and
+Added: losses incurred in the Consolidated Statement of Operations.
+Added: The Company also has a block of annuity contracts under which amounts payable upon death, accident or sickness do not exceed the contract holder’s accumulated account value.
+Added: Because these contracts do not expose the Company to significant mortality or morbidity risk, they are accounted for as investment contracts rather than long-duration insurance contracts.
+Added: The related liability is measured based on accumulated contract holder account values, including credited interest, and is not included in the LFPB measurement under the long-duration insurance accounting model.
+Added: The investment-contract liability, which was approximately $ 4,600 at December 31, 2025, is included in other policy liabilities in the Consolidated Balance Sheets.
+Added: Policy Grouping and Net Premium Ratio
+Added: Long-duration insurance contracts are grouped into cohorts based on product line and issue year, with no cohort containing contracts issued more than one year apart.
+Added: The net premium ratio (“NPR”) is
+Added: the ratio of the present value of expected future benefits and related claim expenses to the present value of expected future gross premiums.
+Added: The NPR used to accrue the LFPB in each period is determined by using the historical and present value of
+Added: expected future benefits and claim settlement expenses for the cohort divided by the historical and present value of expected future gross premiums for the cohort.
+Added: For contracts in force at the Transition Date, the NPR reflects the applicable
+Added: carrying amount under the Company’s modified retrospective transition method.
+Added: For contracts issued after the Transition Date, the NPR is established based on expected benefits, related expenses and gross premiums as of the applicable contract issue
+Added: At each reporting date, actual experience is incorporated into the calculation, and the NPR is recalculated using actual experience and current assumptions about future cash flows.
+Added: The NPR is capped
+Added: If the calculated NPR for a cohort exceeds 100%, the Company increases the LFPB by the amount necessary to reduce the NPR to 100% and recognizes the resulting loss immediately in earnings.
+Added: The LFPB for an individual cohort may not be less
+Added: Flooring adjustments are necessary when the present value of future net premiums exceeds the present value of future benefits for a given cohort.
+Added: The flooring adjustment is the total of the flooring adjustments for each cohort, if any.
+Added: These adjustments ensure that the liability for future policy benefits is at least zero for all cohorts.
+Added: Changes in the LFPB as a result of changes in the current discount rates are recognized separately in OCI and do not affect the NPR.
+Added: Discount Rates on Long Duration Contracts
+Added: The Company uses two discount-rate bases in measuring LFPB:
+Added: ● Locked‑in discount rate – For contracts issued before the Transition Date, the cohort-level locked-in discount rate reflects the historical interest-accretion rates used to measure the contracts
+Added: under previous GAAP.
+Added: For contracts issued after the Transition Date, the locked-in discount rate is based on the upper-medium-grade fixed-income instrument yield applicable when the underlying contracts are issued.
+Added: The locked-in discount rate is used
+Added: to calculate the net premium ratio, interest accretion and remeasurement gains or losses recognized in earnings.
+Added: ● Current discount rate – At each reporting date, the Company remeasures the LFPB using a current discount-rate curve based on yields for upper-medium-grade, or single-A, corporate fixed-income
+Added: The curve is constructed to reflect the duration characteristics of the related liabilities and is updated quarterly.
+Added: Observable market information is used for durations of up to 50 years.
+Added: For projected cash flows beyond the last
+Added: observable point, the Company holds the yield at the 50-year point constant.
+Added: The difference between the liability measured using the current discount rate and the liability measured using the locked-in discount rate is recognized in OCI.
+Added: Changes in the current discount rate
+Added: do not affect the net premium ratio or the remeasurement gains or losses recognized in earnings.
+Added: Short Duration Contracts
+Added: The Company’s short-duration insurance contracts principally include property and casualty insurance products and group accident and health products for which the Company generally has the unilateral
+Added: right to terminate the group policy at an annual renewal date.
+Added: Liabilities for unpaid claims and claim adjustment expenses under short-duration contracts include estimates for reported claims and IBNR.
+Added: The liabilities are established using actuarial methods
+Added: applied to historical claim-development experience, expected loss ratios, claim frequency and severity trends and other relevant information.
+Added: The estimates are reviewed each reporting period, and changes in estimated ultimate losses and claim
+Added: adjustment expenses are recognized in earnings in the period in which the estimates are revised.
+Added: Because these estimates are subject to significant uncertainty, actual claim payments may differ from the amounts recorded.
+Added: The Company also evaluates its short-duration insurance contracts for premium deficiencies.
+Added: A premium deficiency exists when expected claims costs, claim adjustment expenses, policy maintenance costs
+Added: and unamortized acquisition costs exceed the related unearned premiums and anticipated investment income.
+Added: If a premium deficiency is identified, the Company first reduces the related DAC.
+Added: Treasury Stock
+Added: Treasury stock is reflected as a reduction of shareholders’ equity at cost.
+Added: The Company uses the first-in-first-out purchase cost to determine the cost of treasury stock that is reissued.
+Added: includes any gains and losses in additional paid-in capital when treasury stock is reissued.
+Added: Premium Revenue
+Added: Short Duration Contracts
+Added: Premiums for short-duration insurance contracts are recognized as revenue over the coverage period in proportion to the insurance protection provided.
+Added: Unearned premiums represent the portion of premiums written
+Added: applicable to coverage periods after the balance sheet date and are reported as liabilities until earned.
+Added: Certain property and casualty contracts provide for retrospective premium adjustments based on the insured’s loss experience or other contractual criteria.
+Added: Under these arrangements, additional
+Added: premiums may be billed to or refunded to policyholders based on actual loss experience relative to contractual thresholds.
+Added: Estimated retrospective premiums are recognized over the contract period based on experience to date and the terms of the
+Added: underlying contracts.
+Added: Estimates are revised as additional information becomes available, with resulting adjustments recognized in premium revenue in the period of revision.
+Added: Premium revenue is presented net of premiums ceded under reinsurance agreements.
+Added: Long Duration Contracts
+Added: Premiums for nonparticipating long-duration insurance contracts are recognized as revenue when due from policyholders.
+Added: Premiums received before their contractual due dates are reported as advance
+Added: premiums and reported within other policyholder liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheets.
+Added: These amounts are recognized as premium revenue when they become due under the terms of the related insurance contracts.
+Added: Amounts received under annuity and other investment contracts that do not subject the Company to significant mortality or morbidity risk are reported as deposits within policyholder account balances
+Added: rather than as premium revenue.
+Added: Interest credited to policyholder account balances is recognized in benefits and other changes in policy reserves.
+Added: Premium revenue is presented net of premiums ceded under reinsurance agreements.
Deferred income taxes represent the expected future tax consequences when the reported amounts of assets and liabilities are recovered or paid.
−Removed: arise from differences between the financial reporting and tax basis of assets and liabilities and are adjusted for changes in tax laws and tax rates as those changes are enacted.
−Removed: The provision for income taxes represents the total amount of income
−Removed: taxes due related to the current year, plus the change in deferred income taxes during the year.
−Removed: A valuation allowance is recognized if, based on management’s assessment of the relevant facts, it is more likely than not that some portion of a
−Removed: deferred tax asset will not be realized.
+Added: They arise from differences between the financial
+Added: reporting and tax basis of assets and liabilities and are adjusted for changes in tax laws and tax rates as those changes are enacted.
+Added: The provision for income taxes represents the total amount of income taxes due related to the current year, plus
+Added: the change in deferred income taxes during the year.
+Added: A valuation allowance is recognized if, based on management’s assessment of the relevant facts, it is more likely than not that some portion of a deferred tax asset will not be realized.
Earnings Per Common Share
Basic earnings per common share are based on the weighted average number of common and participating shares outstanding during the relevant period.
−Removed: Diluted earnings per common share are based on the weighted average number of common and participating shares outstanding during the relevant period, plus options outstanding, if applicable, using the treasury stock method and the assumed
−Removed: conversion of the Series D preferred stock, if dilutive.
+Added: Diluted earnings per common share are based on the
+Added: weighted average number of common and participating shares outstanding during the relevant period, plus options outstanding, if applicable, using the treasury stock method and the assumed conversion of the Series D preferred stock, if dilutive.
Unless otherwise indicated, earnings per common share amounts are presented on a diluted basis.
−Removed: Cash and Cash Equivalents
−Removed: Cash and cash equivalents consist of cash on hand and investments in short-term, highly liquid securities with original maturities of three months
−Removed: or less from date of purchase.
−Removed: The Company’s insurance subsidiaries from time to time purchase reinsurance from unaffiliated insurers and reinsurers to reduce their potential liability on individual risks and to protect against catastrophic losses.
−Removed: a reinsurance transaction, an insurance company transfers, or “cedes,” a portion or all of its exposure on insurance policies to a reinsurer.
−Removed: The reinsurer assumes the exposure in return for a portion of the premiums.
−Removed: The ceding of insurance
−Removed: does not legally discharge the insurer from primary liability for the full amount of the policies written by it, and the ceding company will incur a loss if the reinsurer fails to meet its obligations under the reinsurance agreement .
−Removed: Amounts currently recoverable under reinsurance agreements are included in reinsurance receivables and amounts currently payable are included in other liabilities.
−Removed: Assets and liabilities
−Removed: relating to reinsurance agreements with the same reinsurer may be recorded net on the balance sheet, if a right of offset exists within the reinsurance agreement.
−Removed: In the event that reinsurers do not meet their obligations to the Company under
−Removed: the terms of the reinsurance agreements, reinsurance recoverable balances could become uncollectible.
−Removed: In such instances, reinsurance recoverable balances are stated net of allowances for uncollectible reinsurance .
−Removed: Share-Based Transactions
−Removed: For employee and director share-based compensation awards, the Company determines a grant date fair value based on the price of our publicly-traded
−Removed: common stock and recognize the related compensation expense, adjusted for actual forfeitures, in the consolidated statement of operations on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period for the entire award.
−Removed: For non-employee share-based
−Removed: compensation awards, the Company recognizes the impact during the period of performance, and the fair value of the award is measured as of the date performance is complete, which is the vesting date.
−Removed: Treasury Stock
−Removed: Treasury stock is reflected as a reduction of shareholders’ equity at cost.
−Removed: The Company uses the first-in-first-out (“FIFO”) purchase cost to
−Removed: determine the cost of treasury stock that is reissued.
−Removed: The Company includes any gains and losses in additional paid-in capital when treasury stock is reissued.
+Added: Revision of Previously Issued Financial Statements
+Added: Nature of the Errors
+Added: identified deficiencies in the design and operating effectiveness of controls
+Added: over the recording and reconciliation of premium receivables and the
+Added: application of premium payments held in suspense within the Company’s group
+Added: whole life and group accident and health business.
+Added: Company did not design and maintain effective controls to timely and accurately
+Added: reconcile enrollment, billing and cash receipt information at the individual
+Added: policyholder level and to resolve differences among third-party enrollment
+Added: data, the policy administration system and the general ledger.
+Added: a result, the Company did not maintain controls operating at a sufficient level
+Added: of precision to determine whether recorded premium receivables were valid,
+Added: whether amounts held in suspense should be applied to individual policyholders
+Added: or otherwise recognized, and whether the related amounts were recorded in the
+Added: appropriate period and were appropriately classified in the consolidated financial
+Added: As a result, the Company has revised its previously reported 2024
+Added: financial information to remove the affected receivables and premium revenue.
+Added: Errors attributable to periods before January 1, 2024 were reflected as adjustments to the affected balance-sheet accounts and retained earnings as of December 31, 2023 .
+Added: Errors attributable to 2024 are reflected in the Company’s 2024 results of operations.
+Added: Effect of the Corrections
+Added: of December 31, 2024, the cumulative corrections:
+Added: reduced insurance premiums and other receivables by approximately $ 5,580 ;
+Added: increased deferred income tax, net by approximately $ 1,172 ;
+Added: reduced accounts payable and accrued expenses by approximately $ 2,923 ;
+Added: reduced retained earnings by approximately $ 1,485 .
+Added: reduced insurance premium, net and income (loss) before income
+Added: taxes by $ 351 ;
+Added: increased net loss by $ 277 .
+Added: the year ended December 31, 2024, the corrections reduced insurance premiums,
+Added: net, and increased loss before income taxes by approximately $ 351 ,000,
+Added: increased the income tax benefit by approximately $ 74 ,000, and increased net
+Added: loss by approximately $ 277 ,000.
+Added: The corrections reduced basic and diluted
+Added: earnings per common share by approximately $ 0.02 .
+Added: corrections also affected certain components of the reconciliation of net
+Added: income to net cash provided by operating activities.
+Added: They did not affect the
+Added: Company’s cash and cash equivalents or net cash provided by operating
+Added: activities, net cash used in investing activities, or net cash provided by
+Added: financing activities.
+Added: Company evaluated the errors in accordance with ASC Topic 250, Accounting Changes and Error Corrections , and
+Added: considered both quantitative and qualitative factors, including the guidance in
+Added: Staff Accounting Bulletin (“SAB”) No.
+Added: 99, Materiality , and SAB No.
+Added: 108, Considering
+Added: the Effects of Prior Year Misstatements When Quantifying Misstatements in
+Added: Current Year Financial Statements .
+Added: The Company quantified the errors under
+Added: both the rollover and iron-curtain methods and evaluated the errors
+Added: individually and in the aggregate with other identified misstatements.
+Added: on this evaluation, management concluded that the errors were not material,
+Added: individually or in the aggregate, to any of the Company’s previously issued
+Added: annual or interim financial statements affected by the errors.
+Added: further concluded that correcting the cumulative errors entirely in the
+Added: consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2025 would
+Added: materially misstate the Company’s 2025 results of operations.
+Added: Accordingly, the
+Added: Company revised the comparative 2024 financial information and the applicable
+Added: opening balances as of January 1, 2024 presented in these consolidated
+Added: financial statements.
+Added: Company did not amend its previously filed Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
+Added: year ended December 31, 2024.
+Added: The due-premium error-correction adjustments are
+Added: presented separately from the adjustments resulting from the Company’s adoption
+Added: The following table represents a summary of the impacts of the revision at December 31 , 2023.
+Added: December 31, 2023
+Added: December 31, 2023
+Added: As Previously Reported
+Added: Revision Impacts
+Added: (In thousands)
+Added: Insurance premiums and other
+Added: Deferred income taxes, net
+Added: LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
+Added: Accounts payable and accrued expenses
+Added: Total liabilities
+Added: Shareholders’ equity:
+Added: Retained earnings
+Added: Total shareholders’ equity
+Added: Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity
+Added: The following table represents a summary of the impacts of the revision for the Balance Sheet at December 31, 2024.
+Added: December 31, 2024
+Added: As Previously Reported
+Added: Revision Impacts
+Added: (In thousands)
+Added: Insurance premiums
+Added: Deferred income taxes, net
+Added: LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
+Added: Accounts payable and other accrued expenses
+Added: Total liabilities
+Added: Shareholders’ equity:
+Added: Retained earnings
+Added: Total shareholders’ equity
+Added: Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity
+Added: The following table represents a summary of the impacts of the revision for the Statement of Operations for the year ended December 31, 2024.
+Added: Year Ended December 31, 2024
+Added: As Previously Reported
+Added: Revision Impacts
+Added: (In thousands, except share and per share data)
+Added: Insurance premiums, net
+Added: Total revenue
+Added: Loss before income taxes
+Added: Income tax benefit
+Added: Net loss applicable to common shareholders
+Added: Earnings (loss) per common share (basic)
+Added: Earnings (loss) per common share (diluted)
+Added: The following table represents a summary of the impacts of the revision for the Statement of Comprehensive Income for the year ended December 31, 2024.
+Added: Year Ended December 31, 2024
+Added: As Previously Reported
+Added: Revision Impacts
+Added: (In thousands)
+Added: Other comprehensive gain (loss):
+Added: Future policy benefit discount rate remeasurement gain (loss)
+Added: Related income tax effect
+Added: Total other comprehensive income, net of tax
+Added: Total comprehensive income
+Added: The following table represents a summary of the impacts of the revision for the Statement of Stockholders' Equity at December 31, 2024.
+Added: Year Ended December 31, 2024
+Added: As Previously Reported
+Added: Revision Impacts
+Added: (In thousands)
+Added: Retained earnings:
+Added: Balance, beginning of year
+Added: Balance, end of year
+Added: Total shareholders’ equity
+Added: The following table represents a summary of the impacts of the revision for the Statement of Cash Flows for the year ended December 31, 2024.
+Added: Year Ended December 31, 2024
+Added: As Previously Reported
+Added: Revision Impacts
+Added: (In thousands)
+Added: Cash flows from operating activities:
+Added: Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
+Added: Deferred income tax benefit
+Added: Increase in receivables, net
+Added: (Decrease) increase in accounts payable and accrued expenses
+Added: Net cash provided by operating activities
Recently Issued Accounting Standards
Adoption of New Accounting Standards
−Removed: Reference Rate Reform .
−Removed: In March 2020, the FASB issued ASU No.
−Removed: 2020-04, Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848):
−Removed: Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform
−Removed: on Financial Reporting (“ASU 2020-04”).
−Removed: This guidance provides optional expedients and exceptions for applying GAAP to investments, derivatives, or other transactions that reference the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) or another reference
−Removed: rate expected to be discontinued because of reference rate reform.
−Removed: Along with the optional expedients, the amendments include a general principle that permits an entity to consider contract modifications due to reference reform to be an event
−Removed: that does not require contract re-measurement at the modification date or reassessment of a previous accounting determination.
−Removed: Additionally, a company may make a one-time election to sell, transfer, or both sell and transfer debt securities
−Removed: classified as held to maturity that reference a rate affected by reference rate reform and that were classified as held to maturity before January 1, 2020.
−Removed: The Company adopted the guidance as of June 30, 2023.
−Removed: The adoption of the guidance had
−Removed: no significant impact on the Company’s financial condition and results of operations .
−Removed: Financial Instruments – Credit Losses.
−Removed: In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU No.
−Removed: 2016-13, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326):
−Removed: Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments (“ASU 2016-13”).
−Removed: The updated guidance
−Removed: applies a new credit loss model (current expected credit losses or CECL) for determining credit-related impairments for financial instruments measured at amortized cost (including reinsurance recoverables, premium and other receivables) and
−Removed: requires an entity to estimate the credit losses expected over the life of an exposure or pool of exposures.
−Removed: The estimate of expected credit losses should consider historical information, current information, as well as reasonable and supportable
−Removed: forecasts, including estimates of prepayments.
−Removed: The expected credit losses, and subsequent adjustments to such losses, are recorded through an allowance account that is deducted from the amortized cost basis of the financial asset, with the net
−Removed: carrying value of the financial asset presented on the consolidated balance sheet at the amount expected to be collected.
−Removed: The updated guidance also amends the previous other-than-temporary impairment model for available-for-sale debt securities by requiring the
−Removed: recognition of impairments relating to credit losses through an allowance account and limits the amount of credit loss to the difference between a security’s amortized cost basis and its fair value.
−Removed: In addition, the length of time a security has
−Removed: been in an unrealized loss position will no longer impact the determination of whether a credit loss exists.
−Removed: The Company adopted the updated guidance as of January 1, 2023.
−Removed: The updated guidance was applied by a cumulative effect adjustment to the opening
−Removed: balance of retained earnings as of January 1, 2023, the beginning of the period of adoption.
−Removed: The adoption of this guidance resulted in the recognition of an after-tax cumulative effect adjustment of $ 0.1 million to reflect the impact of recognizing expected credit losses, as compared to incurred credit losses recognized under the previous guidance.
−Removed: This adjustment is
−Removed: primarily associated with reinsurance recoverables, premium and other receivables.
−Removed: The cumulative effect adjustment decreased retained earnings as of January 1, 2023 and increased the allowance for estimated uncollectible reinsurance.
−Removed: Segment Reporting .
−Removed: In November 2023, the FASB issued ASU No.
−Removed: 2023-07, Segment Reporting- An Amendment for Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures (Topic 280) ( “ ASU 2023-07 ” ).
−Removed: amendments in ASU 2023-07 improve reportable segment disclosure requirements through enhanced disclosures about significant segment expenses.
−Removed: The amendment;
−Removed: introduces a new requirement to disclose significant segment expenses regularly
−Removed: provided to the chief operating decision maker (CODM);
−Removed: extends certain annual disclosures to interim periods;
−Removed: clarifies single reportable segment entities must apply Topic 280 in its entirety, permits more than one measure of segment profit
−Removed: or loss to be reported under certain conditions, and requires disclosure of the title and position of the CODM.
−Removed: The amendments in this update do not change or remove existing disclosure requirements.
−Removed: The Update is effective for fiscal years
−Removed: beginning after December 15, 2023, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024, although early adoption is permitted.
−Removed: The company adopted ASU No.
−Removed: 2023-07 on December 31, 2024.
−Removed: Refer to Note 17 of Notes to
−Removed: Consolidated Financial Statements for details regarding the Company’s Segment Information.
−Removed: Future Adoption of New Accounting Standards
−Removed: Accounting for Long-Duration Contracts .
−Removed: 2018, the FASB issued ASU No.
−Removed: 2018-12, Financial Services —Insurance (Topic 944):
−Removed: Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Long-Duration Contracts (“ASU 2018-12”).
−Removed: This guidance (1) improves the timeliness of recognizing changes in the
−Removed: liability for future policy benefits and modifies the rate used to discount future cash flows, (2) simplifies and improves the accounting for certain market-based options or guarantees associated with deposit (or account balance) contracts,
−Removed: (3) simplifies the amortization of deferred acquisition costs, and (4) improves the effectiveness of the required disclosures.
−Removed: ASU 2018-12 is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2024 and interim periods
−Removed: beginning after December 15, 2025, although earlier adoption is permitted.
−Removed: The Company is currently evaluating the new guidance and considering appropriate cohorts to be reported, such as lines of business and both premium paying and
−Removed: nonpremium paying policies.
−Removed: The Company expects to use the modified retrospective method upon adoption.
−Removed: Although the financial impact on the financial statements has not been determined, it is presumed to be material.
Income Taxes.
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2023-09, Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures (Topic 740).
−Removed: The amendment requires that all entities disclose on an annual basis the following information about income
+Added: The amendment requires that all entities disclose on an annual basis the following information about income taxes paid;
the amount of income taxes paid (net of refunds received) disaggregated by federal (national), state, and foreign taxes;
−Removed: and the amount of income taxes paid (net of refunds received) disaggregated by individual jurisdictions in
−Removed: which income taxes paid (net of refunds received) is equal to or greater than 5% of total income taxes paid (net of refunds received).
+Added: and the amount of income taxes paid (net of refunds received) disaggregated by individual jurisdictions in which income taxes paid (net of refunds received) is equal to or greater than 5% of total income taxes paid (net of refunds received).
All entities also are required to disclose:
−Removed: income (or loss) from continuing operations before income tax
−Removed: expense (or benefit) disaggregated between domestic and foreign;
+Added: income (or loss) from continuing operations before income tax expense (or benefit) disaggregated between domestic and foreign;
and income tax expense (or benefit) from continuing operations disaggregated by federal (national), state, and foreign.
−Removed: The ASU, which also includes certain other amendments to
−Removed: improve the effectiveness of income tax disclosures, is effective for public business entities for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024.
−Removed: The Company is evaluating the new guidance and any effect it will have on the Company’s
+Added: The ASU, which also includes certain other amendments to improve the effectiveness of income tax disclosures, is effective for public business entities for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024.
+Added: The Company adopted ASU No.
+Added: 2023-09 on December 31, 2025.
+Added: Refer to Note 10 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for details regarding the Company’s income tax disclosure.
+Added: Adoption of ASU 2018-12—Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Long-Duration Contracts.
+Added: Effective January 1, 2025, the Company adopted ASU No.
+Added: The Company applied LDTI using the modified retrospective transition method as of January 1, 2024 (the “Transition Date”) to its whole life, Medicare Supplement and certain guaranteed-renewable accident and health insurance products.
+Added: Accordingly, amounts previously reported as of and for the year ended December 31, 2024, have been adjusted to conform to LDTI’s recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosure requirements.
+Added: The effects of adoption as of the Transition Date are summarized below, and additional disaggregated information is presented in Notes 7, 8 and 9.
+Added: Under the modified retrospective transition method, the carrying amount of the LFPB reported under previous GAAP as of December 31, 2023 was used as the starting point for determining the LFPB for in-force long-duration contracts as of the Transition Date.
+Added: The Company adjusted that carrying amount to remove provisions for adverse deviation from assumptions other than discount rates, apply current best-estimate assumptions for future experience, remeasure the LFPB using applicable locked-in discount rates and recognize additional reserves for cohorts for which the NPR exceeded 100%.
+Added: As part of its LDTI implementation, the Company reassessed product classifications for its Bankers Fidelity subsidiary for group accident and health products, which were reclassified from long‑duration to short‑duration.
+Added: This reclassification is supported by the Company’s ability to unilaterally cancel coverage annually.
+Added: As of the Transition Date, this reclassification reduced the LFPB by $ 1,300 , DAC by $ 3,300 resulting in a $ 1,576 reduction to opening retained earnings.
+Added: The carrying amount of DAC associated with contracts in force as of December 31, 2023 was used as the starting point for applying LDTI’s revised DAC amortization requirements, subject to the applicable product reclassifications.
+Added: Related reinsurance recoverables were remeasured using assumptions and methodologies consistent with those applied to the underlying reinsured contracts and adjusted for the terms of the applicable reinsurance agreements.
+Added: The difference between the LFPB measured under LDTI using the applicable locked-in discount rate and the corresponding carrying amount reported under previous GAAP was recognized as an adjustment to retained earnings.
+Added: The difference between the LFPB measured using the current discount rate as of the Transition Date and the LFPB measured using the applicable locked-in discount rate was recognized as an adjustment to AOCI.
+Added: The resulting cumulative-effect adjustments were recorded as of the Transition Date, net of related income tax effects.
+Added: The following table represents a summary of the Transition Date impacts associated with the implementation of LDTI to the consolidated balance sheet:
+Added: (In thousands)
+Added: Comprehensive
+Added: Income (Loss)
+Added: Balance as of December 31, 2023 (as
+Added: Reclassification of annuities
+Added: Reclassification of certain group accident and health products
+Added: Reclassifications and adjustments for the cumulative effect of adoption on assets and liabilities
+Added: Impact from capping Transition Date net premium ratio
+Added: Effect of remeasurement of future policy benefits to an upper-medium grade discount rate
+Added: Adjusted balance as of January 1, 2024, gross of reinsurance
+Added: The following table presents the effects of the retrospective application of the adoption of the new LDTI accounting guidance to the Company's previously reported consolidated balance sheet:
+Added: December 31, 2024
+Added: LDTI Adoption Impacts
+Added: (In thousands)
+Added: Reinsurance recoverables
+Added: Deferred income taxes, net
+Added: Deferred acquisition costs
+Added: LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
+Added: Insurance reserves and policyholder funds
+Added: Future policy benefits
+Added: Unearned premiums
+Added: Other policy liabilities
+Added: Total insurance reserves and policyholder funds
+Added: Total liabilities
+Added: Shareholders’ equity:
+Added: Retained earnings
+Added: Accumulated other comprehensive loss
+Added: Total shareholders’ equity
+Added: Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity
+Added: The following table presents the effects of the retrospective application of the adoption of the new LDTI accounting guidance to the Company's previously reported consolidated statement of operations:
+Added: Year Ended December 31, 2024
+Added: LDTI Adoption Impacts
+Added: (In thousands, except share and per share data)
+Added: Insurance premiums, net
+Added: Total revenue
+Added: Benefits and expenses:
+Added: Insurance benefits and losses incurred
+Added: Future policy benefits remeasurement (gain) loss
+Added: Commissions and underwriting expenses
+Added: Total benefits and expenses
+Added: Loss before income taxes
+Added: Income tax benefit
+Added: Net loss applicable to common shareholders
+Added: Earnings (loss) per common share (basic)
+Added: Earnings (loss) per common share (diluted)
+Added: (1) Related to reclassification of group accident and health from long duration to short duration .
+Added: The following table presents the effects of the retrospective application of the adoption of the new LDTI accounting guidance to the Company's previously reported consolidated statements of comprehensive income:
+Added: Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income
+Added: Year Ended December 31, 2024
+Added: LDTI Adoption Impacts
+Added: (In thousands)
+Added: Other comprehensive gain (loss):
+Added: Future policy benefit discount rate remeasurement gain (loss)
+Added: Related income tax effect
+Added: Total other comprehensive income, net of tax
+Added: Total comprehensive income
+Added: The following table presents the effects of the retrospective application of the adoption of the new LDTI accounting guidance to the Company's previously reported consolidated statements of equity:
+Added: Year Ended December 31, 2024
+Added: LDTI Adoption Impacts
+Added: (In thousands)
+Added: Retained earnings:
+Added: Balance, beginning of year
+Added: Balance, end of year
+Added: Accumulated other comprehensive loss:
+Added: Balance, beginning of year
+Added: Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax
+Added: Balance, end of year
+Added: Total shareholders’ equity
+Added: The following table presents the effects of the retrospective application of the adoption of the new LDTI accounting guidance to the Company's previously reported consolidated statements of cash flows:
+Added: Year Ended December 31, 2024
+Added: LDTI Adoption Impacts
+Added: (In thousands)
+Added: Cash flows from operating activities:
+Added: Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
+Added: Amortization of deferred acquisition costs
+Added: Acquisition costs deferred
+Added: Benefit provision for credit losses
+Added: Deferred income tax benefit
+Added: Increase in receivables, net
+Added: Increase in insurance reserves and policyholder funds
+Added: Net cash provided by operating activities
+Added: Future Adoption of New Accounting Standards
Expense Disaggregation Disclosures .
−Removed: November 2024, the FASB issued ASU No.
−Removed: 2024-03 Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (“ASU 2024-03”).
−Removed: This Update requires disaggregated disclosure of income statement expenses for public
−Removed: business entities (“PBE”).
−Removed: The ASU does not change the expense captions an entity presents on the face of the income statement;
−Removed: rather, it requires disaggregation of certain expense captions into specified categories in disclosures within
−Removed: the footnotes to the financial statements.
−Removed: ASU 2024-03 adds ASC 220-40 to require a footnote disclosure about specific expenses by requiring companies to disaggregate, in a tabular presentation, each relevant expense caption on the face of
−Removed: the income statement that includes employee compensation, depreciation, and intangible asset amortization.
+Added: In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU No.
+Added: 2024-03 Income Statement—Reporting
+Added: Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (“ASU 2024-03”).
+Added: This Update requires disaggregated disclosure of income statement expenses for public business entities (“PBE”).
+Added: The ASU does not change the expense captions an entity
+Added: presents on the face of the income statement;
+Added: rather, it requires disaggregation of certain expense captions into specified categories in disclosures within the footnotes to the financial statements.
+Added: ASU 2024-03 adds ASC 220-40 to require a footnote
+Added: disclosure about specific expenses by requiring companies to disaggregate, in a tabular presentation, each relevant expense caption on the face of the income statement that includes employee compensation, depreciation, and intangible asset
+Added: amortization.
The tabular disclosure would also include certain other expenses, which do not apply to the Company.
−Removed: The ASU does not change or
−Removed: remove existing expense disclosure requirements;
−Removed: however, it may affect where that information appears in the footnotes to the financial statements.
−Removed: ASU 2024-03 is effective for all PBEs for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026,
−Removed: and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027, with early adoption permitted.
−Removed: The Company is currently evaluating the new guidance and any effect it will have on the Company’s financials.
−Removed: Use of Estimates in the Preparation of Financial Statements
−Removed: The preparation of financial statements and related disclosures in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that
−Removed: affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and revenues and expenses during the reporting period.
−Removed: Significant estimates and assumptions are used
−Removed: in developing and evaluating deferred income taxes, deferred acquisition costs, insurance reserves, investments, and receivables, among others, and actual results could differ materially from management’s estimates.
−Removed: The following tables set forth the estimated fair value, gross unrealized gains, gross unrealized losses, allowance for credit losses and cost or
−Removed: amortized cost of the Company’s investments in fixed maturities and equity securities, aggregated by type and industry, as of December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023.
−Removed: Fixed maturities were comprised of the following:
−Removed: Fixed maturities:
+Added: The ASU does not change or remove existing expense disclosure requirements;
+Added: however, it may affect where that information appears in
+Added: the footnotes to the financial statements.
+Added: ASU 2024-03 is effective for all PBEs for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027, with early adoption permitted.
+Added: is currently evaluating the new guidance and any effect it will have on the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements.
+Added: Accounting for Internal-Use Software.
+Added: In September 2025, the FASB issued ASU No.
+Added: 2025-06 Intangibles – Goodwill and Other –
+Added: Internal-Use Software (“ASU 350-40”):
+Added: Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Internal-Use Software.
+Added: The update modernizes the accounting guidance based on stakeholder concerns that the existing
+Added: guidance was designed around “waterfall” software development methods and does not align well with today’s agile and iterative development practices.
+Added: The most significant change is the elimination of the existing software development “project stage”
+Added: model as the trigger for capitalization.
+Added: Instead, entities begin capitalizing internal-use software costs when management has authorized and committed funding for the project and it is probable the project will be completed and the software will be
+Added: used as intended.
+Added: The ASU does not change accounting for software to be sold, leased, or marketed externally (ASC 985-20), the requirement to expense items such as training, maintenance, data conversion, and data migration costs as incurred and the
+Added: point at which capitalization ceases, which remains when the software is substantially complete and ready for its intended use.
+Added: ASU 2025-06 is effective for all PBEs for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027, and interim periods within
+Added: fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027, with early adoption permitted.
+Added: The Company is currently evaluating the new guidance and any effect it will have on the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements.
+Added: The following tables set forth the estimated fair value, gross unrealized gains, gross unrealized losses, allowance for credit losses and cost or amortized cost of the Company’s investments in fixed
+Added: maturity and equity securities, aggregated by type and industry, as of December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024.
+Added: Fixed maturity securities were comprised of the following:
+Added: Fixed maturity securities:
Treasury securities and obligations of U.S.
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Total redeemable preferred stocks
−Removed: Total fixed maturities
−Removed: Fixed maturities:
+Added: Total fixed maturity securities
+Added: Fixed maturity securities:
Treasury securities and obligations of U.S.
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Total redeemable preferred stocks
−Removed: Total fixed maturities
−Removed: Bonds having an amortized cost of $ 15,065 and $ 14,647 and included in the tables above were on deposit with
−Removed: insurance regulatory authorities at December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively, in accordance with statutory requirements.
−Removed: In addition, the Company maintains cash and cash equivalents on deposit with insurance regulatory authorities of $ 226 at December 31, 2024 and 2023.
−Removed: Additionally, bonds having an amortized cost of $ 9,209 and $ 9,584 and included in the tables above were pledged as collateral
−Removed: to FHLB at December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
+Added: Total fixed maturity securities
+Added: Bonds having an amortized cost of $ 15,376 and $ 15,065 and included in the tables above were on deposit with insurance regulatory authorities at December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively, in accordance with statutory requirements.
+Added: In addition, the Company maintains cash and cash equivalents on deposit with insurance regulatory authorities of $ 0 and $ 226 at December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
+Added: Additionally, bonds having an amortized cost of $ 8,861 and $ 9,209 and included in the tables above were pledged as collateral to FHLB at December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
+Added: Equity securities were comprised of the following:
Equity securities:
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Total equity securities
−Removed: The carrying value and amortized cost of the Company’s investments in fixed maturities at December 31, 2024 and 2023 by contractual maturity were as follows.
−Removed: Actual maturities may differ from
−Removed: contractual maturities because issuers may call or prepay obligations with or without call or prepayment penalties.
+Added: The carrying value and amortized cost of the Company’s investments in fixed maturity securities at December 31, 2025 and 2024 by contractual maturity were as follows.
+Added: Actual maturities may differ from contractual maturities because issuers may call or prepay obligations with or without call or prepayment penalties.
+Added: Carrying Value
+Added: Amortized Cost
+Added: Carrying Value
+Added: Amortized Cost
Due in one year or less
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Asset backed securities
−Removed: The following tables present the Company’s unrealized loss aging for securities by type and length of time the security was in a continuous
−Removed: unrealized loss position as of December 31, 2024 and 2023.
+Added: The following tables present the Company’s unrealized loss aging for securities by type and length of time the security was in a continuous unrealized loss position as of December 31, 2025 and 2024.
Less than 12 months
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Corporate securities
−Removed: Redeemable preferred stocks
Total temporarily impaired securities
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Corporate securities
+Added: Redeemable preferred stocks
Total temporarily impaired securities
Analysis of Securities in Unrealized Loss Positions
−Removed: of December 31, 2024 and 2023, there were 213 and 222 securities, respectively, in an unrealized loss position which primarily included certain of the Company’s investments in fixed maturities within the utilities and telecom, financial services, other
−Removed: diversified business and other diversified consumer sectors.
−Removed: The unrealized losses on the Company’s fixed maturity securities investments have been primarily related to general market changes in interest rates and/or the levels of credit spreads
−Removed: rather than specific concerns with the issuer’s ability to pay interest and repay principal.
−Removed: any of its fixed maturity securities with significant declines in fair value, the Company performs detailed analyses to identify whether the drivers of the declines are due to general market drivers, such as the recent increases in interest rates,
−Removed: or due to credit-related factors.
−Removed: Identifying the drivers of the declines in fair value helps to align and allocate the Company’s resources to securities with real credit-related concerns that could impact the ultimate collection of principal and
−Removed: For any significant declines in fair value determined to be non-interest rate or market related, the Company performs a more focused review of the related issuers’ specific credit profile.
−Removed: corporate issuers, the Company evaluates their assets, business profile including industry dynamics and competitive positioning, financial statements and other available financial data.
−Removed: For non-corporate issuers, the Company analyzes all reasonably
−Removed: available sources of credit support, including issuer-specific factors.
−Removed: The Company utilizes information available in the public domain and, for certain private placement issuers, from consultations with the issuers directly.
−Removed: The Company also
−Removed: considers ratings from Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations, as well as the specific characteristics of the security it owns including seniority in the issuer’s capital structure, covenant protections, or other relevant features.
+Added: As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, there were 210 and 213 securities, respectively, in an unrealized loss position which primarily included certain of the Company’s investments in fixed maturity securities within the utilities and telecom, financial services, other diversified business and other diversified consumer sectors.
+Added: With the exception of the other than temporary impairment loss noted below, the unrealized losses on the Company’s fixed maturity securities investments have been primarily related to general market changes in interest rates and/or the levels of credit spreads rather than specific concerns with the issuer’s ability to pay interest and repay principal.
+Added: At each reporting date, the Company evaluates available-for-sale fixed maturity securities whose fair values are below their amortized cost bases.
+Added: The Company first determines whether it intends
+Added: to sell a security or whether it is more likely than not that it will be required to sell the security before recovery of its amortized cost basis, which may be at maturity.
+Added: An intent to sell exists when the Company has made a decision to sell a
+Added: If either condition is met, any existing allowance for credit losses (“ACL”) is written off, the security’s amortized cost basis is written down to fair value and any incremental impairment loss is recognized in earnings within realized
+Added: investment gains (losses).
+Added: If the Company does not intend to sell a security and it is not more likely than not that the Company will be required to sell the security before recovery, the Company evaluates whether any
+Added: portion of the decline in fair value is attributable to credit-related factors.
+Added: A credit loss exists when the present value of the cash flows expected to be collected is less than the security’s amortized cost basis.
+Added: Credit-related losses are
+Added: recognized in earnings through an ACL, limited to the amount by which the security’s amortized cost basis exceeds its fair value.
+Added: Unrealized losses attributable to noncredit factors are recognized in other comprehensive income, net of applicable
+Added: income taxes.
+Added: As part of this evaluation, the Company reviews each security in an unrealized loss position to determine whether the decline in fair value is attributable to general market factors, including
+Added: changes in interest rates and market credit spreads, or to issuer-specific credit factors.
+Added: Securities with significant declines in fair value or other indicators of potential credit deterioration are subject to a more detailed credit review.
+Added: For corporate issuers, the Company evaluates their assets, business profile including industry dynamics and competitive positioning, financial statements and other available financial data.
+Added: non-corporate issuers, the Company analyzes all reasonably available sources of credit support, including issuer-specific factors.
+Added: The Company utilizes information available in the public domain and, for certain private placement issuers, from
+Added: consultations with the issuers directly.
+Added: The Company also considers ratings from Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations, as well as the specific characteristics of the security it owns including seniority in the issuer’s capital
+Added: structure, covenant protections, or other relevant features.
From these reviews, the Company evaluates the issuers’ continued ability to service the Company’s investment through payment of interest and principal.
−Removed: Assuming no credit-related factors develop, unrealized gains and losses on fixed maturity securities are expected to diminish as investments near maturity.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2025, the Company recognized an impairment loss of approximately $ 488 related to an asset-backed security.
+Added: Based on management’s evaluation of the underlying collateral performance, projected cash flows, and market conditions, the Company concluded that recovery of the security’s amortized cost basis was not expected.
+Added: Accordingly, the Company recorded a full write-down of the investment to its estimated realizable value, resulting in a charge to realized investment losses of $ 488 .
+Added: The Company intends to sell the security.
+Added: For the other fixed maturity securities in an unrealized loss position, the Company similarly concluded that the unrealized losses were attributed to noncredit factors.
Based on its credit
−Removed: analysis, the Company believes that the issuers of its fixed maturity investments in the sectors shown in the table above have the ability to service their obligations to the Company.
−Removed: In addition, the Company does not intend to sell the
−Removed: investments and it is not more likely than not that the Company will be required to sell the investments before recovery of their amortized cost bases, which may be at maturity.
−Removed: However, from time to time the Company identifies certain available-for-sale fixed maturity securities where the amortized cost basis exceeds the present value of the cash flows
−Removed: expected to be collected due to credit related factors and as a result, a credit allowance will be estimated.
−Removed: The Company had no
−Removed: ACL on its available-for-sale fixed maturities as of December 31, 2024 and 2023.
+Added: analyses, the Company believes that the issuers have the ability to continue servicing their obligations.
+Added: The Company does not intend to sell these securities, and it is not more likely than not that the Company will be required to sell them
+Added: before recovery of their amortized cost bases.
+Added: Accordingly, the related unrealized losses remain in AOCI.
+Added: Assuming no credit-related deterioration occurs, these unrealized losses are generally expected to diminish as the securities approach
+Added: The Company had no ACL on its available-for-sale fixed maturity securities as of December 31, 2025 and 2024.
Investment income was earned from the following sources:
−Removed: Fixed maturities
+Added: Fixed maturity securities
Equity securities
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Net investment income
+Added: Included in the net realized investment losses for the year ended December 31, 2025, was an impairment of a fixed maturity security totaling $ 488 .
+Added: The impairment resulted from a write-down of a security to its market value, which was recognized in earnings during the period.
+Added: There were no impairments recognized for the year ended December 31, 2024.
A summary of realized investment gains (losses) follows:
−Removed: Invested Assets
−Removed: Realized investment gains, net
−Removed: Invested Assets
+Added: Impairment losses
+Added: Realized investment losses, net
Realized investment gains, net
−Removed: Proceeds from the sales of available-for-sale fixed maturities were as follows:
−Removed: Sales proceeds
−Removed: Proceeds from the sales of equity securities were as follows:
+Added: Proceeds from the sales of available-for-sale fixed maturity securities were as follows:
Sales proceeds
+Added: There were no proceeds from the sales of equity securities during 2025 and 2024.
Proceeds from the sales of other invested assets were as follows:
Sales proceeds
−Removed: Sales of available-for-sale securities in 2024 and 2023 were primarily a result of improving the
−Removed: overall risk versus return profile of the portfolio.
−Removed: In addition, the Company sold its interest in a certain limited liability company held as other invested assets to a third-party in 2024.
−Removed: The following table presents the portion of unrealized gains (losses) related to equity securities still held for the years ended December 31, 2024
−Removed: Net realized and unrealized losses recognized during the period on equity securities
+Added: Sales of available-for-sale securities in 2025 were primarily a result of improving the overall risk versus return profile of the portfolio.
+Added: addition, the Company sold its interest in a certain limited liability company held as other invested assets to a third-party in 2024.
+Added: The following table presents the portion of unrealized gains (losses) related to equity securities still held for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024.
+Added: Net realized and unrealized gains (losses) recognized during the period on equity securities
Net realized gains recognized during the period on equity securities sold during the period
−Removed: Unrealized losses on equity securities, net
−Removed: The Company’s bond portfolio included 99 %
−Removed: investment grade securities, as defined by the NAIC, at December 31, 2024 and 2023.
+Added: Unrealized gains (losses) on equity securities, net
+Added: The Company’s bond portfolio included 99 % investment grade securities, as defined by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”), at December 31, 2025 and 2024.
Variable Interest Entities
The Company holds passive interests in a number of entities that are considered to be variable interest entities (“VIEs”) under GAAP guidance.
−Removed: Company’s VIE interests principally consist of interests in limited partnerships and limited liability companies formed for the purpose of achieving diversified equity returns.
−Removed: The Company’s VIE interests, carried as a part of other invested
−Removed: assets, totaled $ 6,616 and $ 6,381
−Removed: at December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
−Removed: The Company’s VIE interests, carried as a part of investment in unconsolidated trusts, totaled $ 1,238
−Removed: at December 31, 2024 and 2023.
−Removed: The Company does not have power over the activities that most significantly impact the economic
−Removed: performance of these VIEs and thus is not the primary beneficiary.
+Added: The Company’s VIE interests principally consist of interests in limited partnerships and limited liability companies formed for the purpose of achieving diversified equity returns.
+Added: The Company’s VIE interests, carried as a part of other invested assets, totaled $ 6,037 and $ 6,616 at December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
+Added: The Company’s VIE interests, carried as a part of investment in unconsolidated trusts, totaled $ 1,238 at December 31, 2025 and 2024.
+Added: The Company does not have power over the activities that most significantly impact the economic performance of these VIEs and thus is not the primary beneficiary.
Therefore, the Company has not consolidated these VIEs.
The Company’s involvement with each VIE is limited to its direct ownership interest in the VIE.
−Removed: The Company has no
−Removed: arrangements with any of the VIEs to provide other financial support to or on behalf of the VIE.
−Removed: The Company’s maximum loss exposure relative to these investments was limited to the carrying value of the Company’s investment in the VIEs, which
−Removed: amount to $ 7,854 and $ 7,619 ,
−Removed: at December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company had outstanding commitments totaling $ 2,200
−Removed: and $ 4,518 , respectively, whereby the Company is committed to fund these investments and may be called by the partnership during the
−Removed: commitment period to fund the purchase of new investments and partnership expenses.
−Removed: The reduction in the Company’s outstanding commitments was a result of an additional investment of $ 2,318 in
−Removed: the partnership.
+Added: The Company has no arrangements with any of the VIEs to provide other financial support to or on behalf of the VIE other than future funding commitments.
+Added: The Company’s maximum loss exposure relative to these investments was limited to the carrying value of the Company’s investment in the VIEs, which amount to $ 7,275 and $ 7,854 , at December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
+Added: As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company had outstanding commitments totaling $ 2,200 and $ 2,200 , respectively, whereby the Company is committed to fund these investments and may be called by the partnership during the commitment period to fund the purchase of new investments and partnership expenses.
Disclosures About Fair Value of Financial Instruments
−Removed: The estimated fair values have been determined by the Company using available market information from various market sources and appropriate
−Removed: valuation methodologies as of the respective dates.
+Added: The estimated fair values have been determined by the Company using available market information from various market sources and appropriate valuation methodologies as of the respective dates.
However, considerable judgment is necessary to interpret market data and to develop the estimates of fair value.
−Removed: Although management is not aware of any factors that would significantly affect
−Removed: the estimated fair value amounts, the estimates presented herein are not necessarily indicative of the amounts which the Company could realize in a current market exchange.
−Removed: The use of different market assumptions and/or estimation methodologies
−Removed: may have a material effect on the estimated fair value amounts.
−Removed: The following describes the fair value hierarchy and provides information as to the extent to which the Company uses fair value to measure the
−Removed: value of its financial instruments and information about the inputs used to value those financial instruments.
+Added: Although management is not aware of any factors that would significantly affect the estimated fair value amounts, the estimates
+Added: presented herein are not necessarily indicative of the amounts which the Company could realize in a current market exchange.
+Added: The use of different market assumptions and/or estimation methodologies may have a material effect on the estimated
+Added: fair value amounts.
+Added: The following describes the fair value hierarchy and provides information as to the extent to which the Company uses fair value to measure the value of its financial instruments and information
+Added: about the inputs used to value those financial instruments.
The fair value hierarchy prioritizes the inputs in the valuation techniques used to measure fair value into three broad levels.
Observable inputs that reflect quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in active markets that the Company has the ability to access at the measurement date.
−Removed: The Company’s financial instruments valued using Level 1 criteria
−Removed: include cash equivalents and exchange traded common stocks.
+Added: The Company’s financial instruments valued using Level 1
+Added: criteria include cash equivalents and exchange traded common stocks.
Observable inputs, other than quoted prices included in Level 1, for an asset or liability or prices for similar assets or liabilities.
−Removed: The Company’s financial instruments valued using Level 2 criteria include significantly most of its
−Removed: fixed maturities, which consist of U.S.
+Added: The Company’s financial instruments valued using Level 2 criteria include significantly most of
+Added: its fixed maturity securities, which consist of U.S.
Treasury securities, U.S.
−Removed: Government securities, obligations of states and political subdivisions, and certain corporate fixed maturities, as well as its non-redeemable preferred stocks.
−Removed: determining fair value measurements of its fixed maturities and non-redeemable preferred stocks using Level 2 criteria, the Company utilizes data from outside sources, including nationally recognized pricing services and broker/dealers.
−Removed: Prices for the majority of the Company’s Level 2 fixed maturities and non-redeemable preferred stocks were determined using unadjusted prices received from pricing services that utilize models where the significant inputs are observable
−Removed: interest rates, yield curves, prepayment speeds, default rates, loss severities) or can be corroborated by observable market data.
−Removed: Valuations that are derived from techniques in which one or more of the significant inputs are unobservable (including assumptions about risk).
−Removed: Fair value is based on criteria that use assumptions or other data that are not readily
−Removed: observable from objective sources.
−Removed: With little or no observable market, the determination of fair values uses considerable judgment and represents the Company’s best estimate of an amount that could be realized in a market exchange for
−Removed: the asset or liability.
+Added: Government securities, obligations of states and political subdivisions, and certain corporate fixed maturity securities, as well as its non-redeemable
+Added: preferred stocks.
+Added: In determining fair value measurements of its fixed maturity securities and non-redeemable preferred stocks using Level 2 criteria, the Company utilizes data from outside sources, including nationally recognized
+Added: pricing services and broker/dealers.
+Added: Prices for the majority of the Company’s Level 2 fixed maturity securities and non-redeemable preferred stocks were determined using unadjusted prices received from pricing services that utilize
+Added: models where the significant inputs are observable (e.g., interest rates, yield curves, prepayment speeds, default rates, loss severities) or can be corroborated by observable market data.
+Added: Level 3 Valuations that are derived from techniques in which one or more of the significant inputs are unobservable (including assumptions about risk).
+Added: Fair value is based on criteria that use assumptions or other data that are not readily observable from objective sources.
+Added: With little or no observable market, the determination of fair values uses considerable judgment and represents the Company’s best estimate of an amount that could be realized in a market exchange for the asset or liability.
The Company’s financial instruments valued using Level 3 criteria consist of one equity security.
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The use of different criteria or assumptions regarding data may have yielded materially different valuations.
+Added: Other policy liabilities consisting of annuities of $ 4,783 and $ 4,938 were also included in level 3 valuations.
Recurring Fair Value Measurements
Cash Equivalents .
−Removed: The carrying amount approximates fair value
−Removed: due to the short-term nature of the instruments.
−Removed: Fixed Maturities and Common and Non-Redeemable Preferred Stocks .
−Removed: carrying amount is determined from publicly quoted market prices.
−Removed: Certain fixed maturities do not have publicly quoted values and consist solely of issuances of pooled debt obligations of multiple, smaller financial services companies.
−Removed: not actively traded and valuation techniques used to measure fair value are based on future estimated cash flows discounted at reasonable estimated rates of interest.
−Removed: Other qualitative and quantitative information is also considered, as
+Added: The carrying amount approximates fair value due to the short-term nature of the instruments.
+Added: Fixed Maturity Securities and Common and Non-Redeemable Preferred Stocks .
+Added: The carrying amount is determined
+Added: from publicly quoted market prices.
+Added: Certain fixed maturity securities do not have publicly quoted values and consist solely of issuances of pooled debt obligations of multiple, smaller financial services companies.
+Added: They are not actively traded
+Added: and valuation techniques used to measure fair value are based on future estimated cash flows discounted at reasonable estimated rates of interest.
+Added: Other qualitative and quantitative information is also considered, as applicable.
Nonrecurring Fair Value Measurements
Non-publicly Traded Invested Assets .
−Removed: The fair value of
−Removed: investments in certain limited partnerships which are included in other invested assets on the consolidated balance sheet were determined by officers of those limited partnerships.
+Added: The fair value of investments in certain limited partnerships which are
+Added: included in other invested assets on the consolidated balance sheet were determined by officers of those limited partnerships.
Policy Loans .
−Removed: Policy loans, which are categorized as Level 3
−Removed: fair value measurements, are carried at the unpaid principal balances.
+Added: Policy loans, which are categorized as Level 3 fair value measurements, are carried at the unpaid principal balances.
+Added: Annuities, which are categorized as Level 3 fair value measurements, are carried at the present value of future annuity payments.
Junior Subordinated Debentures .
−Removed: The fair value is estimated
−Removed: based on observable interest rates and yields for debt instruments having similar characteristics.
+Added: The fair value is estimated based on observable interest rates and yields for
+Added: debt instruments having similar characteristics.
As of December 31, 2025, financial instruments carried at fair value were measured on a recurring basis as summarized below:
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Other Observable
−Removed: Fixed maturities
+Added: Fixed maturity securities
Equity securities
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Other Observable
−Removed: Fixed maturities
+Added: Fixed maturity securities
Equity securities
Cash equivalents
−Removed: The following table sets forth the carrying amount, estimated fair value and level within the fair value hierarchy of the Company’s financial
−Removed: instruments as of December 31, 2024 and 2023.
+Added: The following table sets forth the carrying amount, estimated fair value and level within the fair value hierarchy of the Company’s financial instruments as of December 31, 2025 and 2024:
Hierarchy (1)
Cash and cash equivalents
−Removed: Fixed maturities
+Added: Fixed maturity securities
Equity securities
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Revolving credit facility
−Removed: See the aforementioned information for a description of the fair value hierarchy as well
−Removed: as a disclosure of levels for classes of these financial assets.
+Added: Other policy liabilities -annuities
+Added: See the aforementioned information for a description of the fair value hierarchy as well as a disclosure of levels for classes of these financial assets.
+Added: This value relates to annuities, which is a financial instrument, whereas the remaining items within other policy liabilities are not financial instruments.
Allowance for Expected Credit Losses
Reinsurance Recoverables
−Removed: The following table presents the balances of reinsurance recoverables, net of the allowance for expected credit losses, at December 31, 2024 and
−Removed: 2023, and the changes in the allowance for expected credit losses for the year ended December 31, 2024 and 2023.
+Added: The following table presents the balances of reinsurance recoverables, net of the allowance for expected credit losses, at December 31, 2025 and 2024, and the changes in the allowance for expected credit losses for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024:
At and year ended December
−Removed: Reinsurance Recoverables,
−Removed: Net of Allowance for
−Removed: Expected Credit Losses
−Removed: Allowance for Expected
+Added: Recoverables,
Credit Losses
Balance, beginning of period
−Removed: Cumulative effect of adoption of updated accounting guidance for credit losses at January 1, 2023
Current period change for estimated uncollectible reinsurance
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At and year ended December
−Removed: Reinsurance Recoverables,
−Removed: Net of Allowance for
−Removed: Expected Credit Losses
−Removed: Allowance for Expected
+Added: 31, 2024 (Restated)
+Added: Recoverables,
Credit Losses
Balance, beginning of period
−Removed: Cumulative effect of adoption of updated accounting guidance for credit losses at January 1, 2023
Current period change for estimated uncollectible reinsurance
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Insurance Premium and Other Receivables
−Removed: The following table presents the balances of insurance premiums and other, net of the allowance for expected credit losses, at December 31, 2024 and
−Removed: 2023, and the changes in the allowance for expected credit losses for the year ended December 31, 2024 and 2023.
+Added: The following table presents the balances of insurance premiums and other, net of the allowance for expected credit losses, at December 31, 2025 and 2024, and the changes in the allowance for expected credit losses for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024:
At and year ended December
−Removed: Insurance Premiums and
−Removed: Other, Net of Expected
−Removed: Credit Losses
−Removed: Allowance for Expected
−Removed: Credit Losses
Balance, beginning of period
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At and year ended December
−Removed: Insurance Premiums and
−Removed: Other, Net of Expected
−Removed: Credit Losses
−Removed: Allowance for Expected
−Removed: Credit Losses
+Added: 31, 2024 (restated)
Balance, beginning of period
−Removed: Cumulative effect of adoption of updated accounting guidance for credit losses at January 1, 2023
Current period change for expected credit losses
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Deferred Policy Acquisition Costs
−Removed: The following table presents a rollforward of deferred policy acquisition costs by segment for the years ended December 31.
+Added: The following table presents a rollforward of deferred policy acquisition costs by segment for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024:
+Added: 2024 (Restated)
Deferred policy acquisition costs:
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Balance, end of year (1)
+Added: 1) DAC is associated with the following product lines:
+Added: American Southern products include automobile liability, general liability, inland marine, automobile physical damage, and surety;
+Added: and Bankers Fidelity products include individual life, group whole life, Medicare Supplement, and individual and group accident and health products.
+Added: The following table presents a rollforward of deferred policy acquisition costs for American Southern by line of business for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024:
+Added: DAC balance as of the beginning of the year
+Added: Capitalized expenses
+Added: Amortization of DAC
+Added: DAC balance as of the valuation date
+Added: DAC balance as of the beginning of the year
+Added: Capitalized expenses
+Added: Amortization of DAC
+Added: DAC balance as of the valuation date
+Added: The following table presents a rollforward of deferred policy acquisition costs for Bankers Fidelity by line of business for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024:
+Added: DAC balance as of the beginning of the year
+Added: Capitalized expenses
+Added: Amortization of DAC
+Added: DAC balance as of the valuation date
+Added: DAC balance as of the beginning of the year
+Added: Capitalized expenses
+Added: Amortization of DAC
+Added: DAC balance as of the valuation date
Internal-Use Software
−Removed: On March 3, 2021, the Company entered into a hosting arrangement through a service contract with a third party software
−Removed: solutions vendor to provide a suite of policy, billing, claim, and customer management services.
+Added: On March 3, 2021, the Company entered into a hosting arrangement through a service contract with a third party software solutions vendor to provide a suite of policy, billing, claim, and customer management services.
The software is managed, hosted, supported, and delivered as a cloud-based software service product offering (software-as-a-service).
−Removed: term of the arrangement , as amended , was three years .
−Removed: The arrangement was renewed in March 2024 for an additional five years , with a subsequent renewal
−Removed: term of five years .
−Removed: Service fees related to the hosting arrangement are recorded as an expense in the Company’s condensed consolidated
−Removed: statement of operations as incurred.
+Added: The initial term of the arrangement, as amended, was three years .
+Added: The arrangement was renewed in March 2024 for an additional five years , with a subsequent renewal term of five years .
+Added: Service fees related to the hosting arrangement are recorded as an expense in the Company’s condensed consolidated statement of operations as incurred.
Implementation expenses incurred related to third party professional and consulting services have been capitalized.
−Removed: The Company will begin amortizing, on a straight-line basis over the expected remaining term
−Removed: of the hosting arrangement, when the software is substantially ready for its intended use.
−Removed: The Company incurred and capitalized implementation costs of $ 108
−Removed: and $ 1,545 during the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
−Removed: The Company has capitalized $ 4,675 and $ 4,567 in implementation costs
−Removed: in other assets in its condensed consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
+Added: The Company will begin amortizing, on a straight-line basis over the expected remaining term of the hosting arrangement, when the software is substantially ready for its intended use.
+Added: The Company incurred and capitalized implementation costs of $ 638 and $ 108 during the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
+Added: The Company has capitalized $ 5,313 and $ 4,675 in implementation costs in other assets in its Consolidated Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
The Company expects the software will be substantially ready for its intended use during 2026.
Accordingly, the Company has no t recorded any amortization expense related to software implementation costs for years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024.
−Removed: Insurance Reserves and Policyholder Funds
−Removed: The following table presents the Company’s reserves for life, accident and health, and property and casualty losses, claims and loss adjustment
−Removed: expenses at December 31, 2024 and 2023.
−Removed: Insurance In Force, Net
Future Policy Benefits
−Removed: Life insurance policies:
−Removed: Ordinary life and annuities
−Removed: Accident and health insurance policies
−Removed: Unearned premiums
−Removed: Losses, claims and loss adjustment expenses
−Removed: Other policy liabilities
−Removed: Total insurance reserves and policyholder funds
−Removed: Annualized premiums for accident and health insurance policies were $ 82,730 and $ 84,127 at December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
−Removed: Future Policy Benefits
−Removed: Liabilities for future benefits on life insurance policies and accident and health insurance policies are based on assumed investment yields,
−Removed: mortality rates, disablement rates, benefit utilization rates, and lapse rates after giving effect to possible risks of unexpected adverse claim experience.
−Removed: The mortality, morbidity, and lapse assumptions are based upon the Company’s experience
−Removed: and incorporate a margin for adverse experience development.
−Removed: These assumptions are modified as necessary to reflect anticipated trends and are generally established at contract inception.
−Removed: The interest rates assumed, which reflect future
−Removed: investment yields at the time policies are issued, are generally:
−Removed: (i) 2.5 % to 5.5 % for issues prior to 1977 , (ii) 5.5 % to 7.0 % for 1977 through 1979 issues, (iii) 9.0 %
−Removed: for 1980 through 1987 issues, (iv) 5.0 %
−Removed: to 7.0 % for 1988 through 2009
−Removed: issues, and (v) 3.0 % to 4.0 %
−Removed: for 2010 through 2024 issues.
+Added: The LFPB represents the present value of expected future policy benefits and claim‑related expenses, less the present value of expected future net premiums.
+Added: Net premiums represent the portion
+Added: of gross premiums required to fund expected benefits based on current assumptions.
+Added: The following table sets forth the liability for future policy benefits as of December 31, 2025 and 2024:
+Added: (Dollar amounts in thousands)
+Added: Individual life
+Added: Medicare Supplement
+Added: Other individual health
+Added: Net liability for future policy benefits
+Added: reinsurance recoverable
+Added: Net liability for future policy benefits, net of reinsurance recoverable
+Added: Changes in Future Liability Policy Benefits
+Added: One component of the change in the LFPB is the change attributable to changes in cash flow assumptions.
+Added: The LFPB is calculated based on assumptions that are evaluated at least annually.
+Added: assumptions include mortality and voluntary policyholder lapses for individual life and group life, and total policy terminations and claim costs for Medicare Supplement products and other individual health products.
+Added: The Company performed experience studies based on cutoff dates of December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2025 to determine the assumptions for the calculation of the LFPB as of the respective valuation dates.
+Added: Based on these studies, the Company updated mortality and voluntary lapse assumptions for individual and group life products and claim cost assumptions for Medicare Supplement products.
+Added: The updated assumptions did not significantly affect LFPB for the life products.
+Added: Changes in Medicare Supplement claim cost assumptions reduced LFPB by approximately $ 1,467 and $ 2,480 as of December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2025, respectively, primarily due to lower projected claim costs during the first three policy years.
+Added: The remainder of the remeasurement gain of $ 225 and $ 1,232 in 2024 and 2025, respectively, were attributable to the differences between actual and expected cash flows.
+Added: No portion of the LFPB remeasurement gain for 2024 or 2025 resulted from the application of the 100 % net premium ratio cap.
+Added: The following table presents the balances of and changes in the liability for future policy benefits as of and for the year ended December 31, 2025:
+Added: (Dollar amounts in thousands)
+Added: Present value of expected net premiums:
+Added: Beginning balance as of January 1
+Added: Beginning balance, at original discount rate
+Added: Effect of changes in cash flow assumptions
+Added: Effect of actual variances from expected experience
+Added: Adjusted beginning balance
+Added: Interest accretion
+Added: Net premiums collected (1)
+Added: Ending balance, at original discount rate
+Added: Effect of changes in discount rate assumptions
+Added: Ending balance as of December 31,
+Added: Present value of expected future policy benefits:
+Added: Beginning balance as of January 1
+Added: Beginning balance, at original discount rate
+Added: Effect of changes in cash flow assumptions
+Added: Effect of actual variances from expected experience
+Added: Adjusted beginning balance
+Added: Interest accretion
+Added: Benefit payments
+Added: Ending balance, at original discount rate
+Added: Effect of changes in discount rate assumptions
+Added: Ending balance as of December 31,
+Added: Net liability for future policy benefits, before flooring adjustments
+Added: Flooring adjustments (2)
+Added: Net liability for future policy benefits
+Added: reinsurance recoverable
+Added: Net liability for future policy benefits, net of reinsurance recoverable
+Added: Weighted average liability duration (years)
+Added: Net premiums represent the portion of gross premiums collected from policyholders that is necessary to fund expected benefit payments.
+Added: Flooring adjustments are necessary when the present value of future net premiums exceeds the present value of future benefits for a given cohort.
+Added: The flooring adjustment is the total of the flooring adjustments for each cohort, if any.
+Added: These adjustments ensure that the liability for future policy benefits is at least zero for all cohorts.
+Added: The following table presents the balances of and changes in the liability for future policy benefits as of and for the year ended December 31, 2024.
+Added: (Dollar amounts in thousands)
+Added: Present value of expected net premiums:
+Added: Beginning balance as of January 1
+Added: Beginning balance, at original discount rate
+Added: Effect of changes in cash flow assumptions
+Added: Effect of actual variances from expected experience
+Added: Adjusted beginning balance
+Added: Interest accretion
+Added: Net premiums collected (1)
+Added: Ending balance, at original discount rate
+Added: Effect of changes in discount rate assumptions
+Added: Ending balance as of December 31,
+Added: Present value of expected future policy benefits:
+Added: Beginning balance as of January 1
+Added: Beginning balance, at original discount rate
+Added: Effect of changes in cash flow assumptions
+Added: Effect of actual variances from expected experience
+Added: Adjusted beginning balance
+Added: Interest accretion
+Added: Benefit payments
+Added: Ending balance, at original discount rate
+Added: Effect of changes in discount rate assumptions
+Added: Ending balance as of December 31,
+Added: Net liability for future policy benefits, before flooring adjustments
+Added: Flooring adjustments (2)
+Added: Net liability for future policy benefits
+Added: reinsurance recoverable
+Added: Net liability for future policy benefits, net of reinsurance recoverable
+Added: Weighted average liability duration (years)
+Added: Net premiums represent the portion of gross premiums collected from policyholders that is necessary to fund expected benefit payments
+Added: Flooring adjustments are necessary when the present value of future net premiums exceeds the present value of future benefits for a given cohort.
+Added: The flooring adjustment is the total of the flooring
+Added: adjustments for each cohort, if any.
+Added: These adjustments ensure that the liability for future policy benefits is at least zero for all cohorts.
+Added: Weighted Average Interest Rates
+Added: The following table presents the balances of and changes in the liability for future policy benefits as of and for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024.
+Added: Year Ended December 31,
+Added: Year Ended December 31,
+Added: Individual Life
+Added: Interest accretion (locked-in) rate
+Added: Current discount rate
+Added: Interest accretion (locked-in) rate
+Added: Current discount rate
+Added: Medicare Supplement
+Added: Interest accretion (locked-in) rate
+Added: Current discount rate
+Added: Other Individual Health
+Added: Interest accretion (locked-in) rate
+Added: Current discount rate
+Added: Discounted Future Gross Premium
+Added: The following table sets forth the amount of undiscounted and discounted expected future gross premiums and expected future benefit payments as December 31, 2025 and 2024.
+Added: (Dollar amounts in thousands)
+Added: Individual life
+Added: Expected future gross premiums
+Added: Expected future benefits payments
+Added: Expected future gross premiums
+Added: Expected future benefits payments
+Added: Medicare Supplement
+Added: Expected future gross premiums
+Added: Expected future benefits payments
+Added: Other Individual Health
+Added: Expected future gross premiums
+Added: Expected future benefits payments
+Added: Revenue Interest Accretion
+Added: The following table sets forth the amount of revenue and interest accretion (expense) recognized in net income related to our liability for future policy benefits for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024.
+Added: (Dollar amounts in thousands)
+Added: Accretion (1)
+Added: Accretion (1)
+Added: Individual life
+Added: Medicare Supplement
+Added: Other Individual Health
+Added: (1) Amounts for interest accretion are included in benefits and other changes in policy reserves in the consolidated statement of operations.
+Added: Other Insurance Reserves and Policyholder Funds
Loss and Claim Reserves
Loss and claim reserves represent estimates of projected ultimate losses and are based upon:
−Removed: (a) management’s estimate of ultimate liability and
−Removed: claims adjusters’ evaluations for unpaid claims reported prior to the close of the accounting period, (b) estimates of incurred but not reported (“IBNR”) claims based on past experience, and (c) estimates of loss adjustment expenses.
−Removed: estimated liability is periodically reviewed by management and updated, with changes to the estimated liability recorded in the statement of operations in the year in which such changes are known.
+Added: (a) management’s estimate of ultimate liability and claims adjusters’ evaluations for unpaid claims
+Added: reported prior to the close of the accounting period, (b) estimates of IBNR claims based on past experience, and (c) estimates of loss adjustment expenses.
+Added: The estimated liability is periodically reviewed by management and updated, with changes
+Added: to the estimated liability recorded in the statement of operations in the year in which such changes are known.
Activity in the liability for unpaid loss and claim reserves is summarized as follows:
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Balance at December 31
−Removed: Prior years’ development was primarily the result of unfavorable
−Removed: development in the automobile liability line of business in the property and casualty operations due to frequency and severity in the inflationary factors, as well as unfavorable development in the 2021 and 2022 accident years.
−Removed: Prior years’ development was primarily the result of unfavorable
−Removed: development in the property and casualty operations predominately in the automobile liability line of business due to inflationary factors, partially offset by favorable development in the Medicare supplement line of business in the
−Removed: life and health operations.
+Added: (1) Prior years’ development was primarily the result of unfavorable development in the property and casualty operations predominately in the automobile liability line of business due to reserve strengthening, partially offset by favorable development in the Medicare Supplement line of business in the life and health segment.
+Added: (2) Prior years’ development was primarily the result of unfavorable development in the property and casualty operations in the automobile liability line of business due to frequency and severity in the inflationary factors, as well as unfavorable development in the 2021 and 2022 accident years.
Following is a reconciliation of total incurred losses to total insurance benefits and losses incurred:
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Total insurance benefits and losses incurred (1)
+Added: (1) This line is net of LFPB remeasurement gain of $ 4,866 and $ 2,334 for 2025 and 2024, respectively.
Liability for Unpaid Losses, Claims and Loss Adjustment Expenses
−Removed: The following is information, by significant product lines, about incurred and paid claims development as of December 31, 2024, net of
−Removed: reinsurance, as well as the cumulative number of reported claims and the total of IBNR reserves plus expected development on reported claims included within the net incurred claims amounts.
−Removed: The information presented for the years ended December
−Removed: 31, 2015 and prior is presented as supplementary information and is unaudited.
+Added: The following is information, by significant product lines, about incurred and paid claims development as of December 31, 2025, net of reinsurance, as well as the cumulative number of reported claims and the total of IBNR reserves plus expected development on reported claims included within the net incurred claims amounts.
+Added: The information presented for the years ended December 31, 2024 and prior is presented as supplementary information and is unaudited.
Medicare Supplement
−Removed: For the Years Ended December 31,
As of December 31,
+Added: For the Years Ended December 31,
Incurred Losses, Claims and Allocated Loss Adjustment Expenses, Net of
−Removed: Reported Claims
Accident Year
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Liabilities for losses, claims and loss adjustment expenses, net of reinsurance
−Removed: The cumulative number of reported claims for the Medicare Supplement line of business is the number of distinct claims incurred and submitted to
−Removed: the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (or its designee) for payment in the given year.
+Added: The cumulative number of reported claims for the Medicare Supplement line of business is the number of distinct claims incurred and submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (or its designee) for payment in the given year.
Multiple payments on the same claim are not counted in the claim frequency data.
−Removed: For Medicare Supplement policies, the estimated ultimate claims
−Removed: incurred, using claims data reported during each month of any given year, are calculated using the chain ladder method.
−Removed: Because claim patterns vary significantly during the year, this method is modified to reflect claim experience over the
−Removed: corresponding four-month period prior to the statement date during the prior two calendar years, and recent claim experience during a twelve-month period from sixteen months prior to the valuation date through five months prior to the valuation
+Added: For Medicare Supplement policies, the estimated ultimate claims incurred, using claims data reported during each month of any given year, are calculated using the chain ladder method.
+Added: Because claim patterns vary significantly during the year, this method is modified to reflect claim experience over the corresponding four-month period prior to the statement date during the prior two calendar years, and recent claim experience during a twelve-month period from sixteen months prior to the valuation date through five months prior to the valuation date.
Additional adjustments to the estimated ultimate claims incurred are then applied to account for seasonal changes in claim experience and changes in the rate of claim processing.
−Removed: The liability for Medicare Supplement claims that are
−Removed: Incurred but Not Reported (the IBNR) is calculated by subtracting both paid claims through the valuation date and claims in the course of settlement as of the valuation date from the estimated ultimate claims.
+Added: The liability for Medicare Supplement claims that are Incurred but Not Reported (the IBNR) is calculated by subtracting both paid claims through the valuation date and claims in the course of settlement as of the valuation date from the estimated ultimate claims.
Thirty-six months of loss data are used to develop the estimated ultimate incurred claims.
−Removed: For other accident and health products and life products,
−Removed: similar approaches are used and modified to reflect the unique aspects of the products.
+Added: For other accident and health products and life products, similar approaches are used and modified to reflect the unique aspects of the products.
Automobile Liability
−Removed: For the Years Ended December 31,
As of December 31,
+Added: For the Years Ended December 31,
Incurred Losses, Claims and Allocated Loss Adjustment Expenses, Net of
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Automobile Physical Damage
−Removed: For the Years Ended December 31,
As of December 31,
−Removed: Incurred Losses, Claims and Allocated Loss Adjustment Expenses,
−Removed: Net of Reinsurance
+Added: For the Years Ended December 31,
+Added: Incurred Losses, Claims and Allocated Loss Adjustment Expenses, Net of
Accident Year
−Removed: Cumulative Paid Losses, Claims and Allocated Loss Adjustment
−Removed: Expenses, Net of Reinsurance
+Added: Cumulative Paid Losses, Claims and Allocated Loss Adjustment Expenses, Net of Reinsurance
Accident Year
−Removed: All outstanding liabilities before 2020, net of reinsurance
Liabilities for losses, claims and loss adjustment expenses, net of reinsurance
General Liability
−Removed: For the Years Ended December 31,
As of December 31,
+Added: For the Years Ended December 31,
Incurred Losses, Claims and Allocated Loss Adjustment Expenses, Net of
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Liabilities for losses, claims and loss adjustment expenses, net of reinsurance
−Removed: For the Years Ended December 31,
As of December 31,
+Added: For the Years Ended December 31,
Incurred Losses, Claims and Allocated Loss Adjustment Expenses, Net of
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Liabilities for losses, claims and loss adjustment expenses, net of reinsurance
−Removed: For the property and casualty lines of business, the number of claims presented above equals the number of occurrences by type of claim reported
−Removed: to the Company.
−Removed: The number of claims reported during a given year corresponds to the number of claims records opened during the year.
+Added: For the property and casualty lines of business, the number of claims presented above equals the number of occurrences by type of claim reported to the Company.
+Added: The number of claims reported
+Added: during a given year corresponds to the number of claims records opened during the year.
Frequency information is maintained on a cumulative basis by accident year by line of business.
−Removed: For automobile
−Removed: claims, a claim count is separately maintained for bodily injury, property damage and physical damage claims.
−Removed: The Company has consistently monitored claim frequency on this basis, and believes this provides more meaningful information than using
−Removed: claimant count which can change over the course of settling a claim.
−Removed: In general, when a claim is reported, claims representatives establish a “case reserve” for the estimated amount of the ultimate payment based on
−Removed: the known information of the claim at that time.
+Added: For automobile claims, a claim count is separately maintained
+Added: for bodily injury, property damage and physical damage claims.
+Added: The Company has consistently monitored claim frequency on this basis, and believes this provides more meaningful information than using claimant count which can change over the course
+Added: of settling a claim.
+Added: In general, when a claim is reported, claims representatives establish a “case reserve” for the estimated amount of the ultimate payment based on the known information of the claim at that time.
Claims managers review and monitor all property and casualty claims in excess of $ 25,000 .
As new information becomes available or payments are made on a claim, the case reserve is adjusted to reflect the revised estimate of the ultimate amount to be paid out.
−Removed: Estimates and assumptions pertaining to individual claims are based on
−Removed: complex and subjective judgments and subject to change at any time as new information becomes available.
−Removed: In addition to case reserves, IBNR reserves are established to provide for claims which have not been reported to the Company as of the reporting
−Removed: date as well as potential adverse development on known case reserves.
+Added: Estimates and assumptions pertaining to individual claims are based on complex and subjective judgments and subject to change at any time as new information becomes available.
+Added: In addition to case reserves, IBNR reserves are established to provide for claims which have not been reported to the Company as of the reporting date as well as potential adverse development on
+Added: known case reserves.
IBNR reserve estimates are derived through a number of analytical techniques.
Actuarial data is analyzed by line of business, coverage and accident year.
−Removed: Qualitative factors
−Removed: are also considered in determining IBNR reserves and include such factors as judicial decisions, general economic trends such as inflation, changes in policy forms, and underwriting changes.
−Removed: Reserves are reviewed quarterly and any indicated
−Removed: adjustments are made.
−Removed: Because of the inherent uncertainties in establishing both case and IBNR reserves, ultimate loss experience may prove better or worse than
−Removed: indicated by the combined claim reserves.
−Removed: Adjustments to claim reserves are reflected in the period recognized and could increase or decrease earnings for the period.
+Added: Qualitative factors are also considered in determining IBNR reserves
+Added: and include such factors as judicial decisions, general economic trends such as inflation, changes in policy forms, and underwriting changes.
+Added: Reserves are reviewed quarterly and any indicated adjustments are made.
+Added: Because of the inherent uncertainties in establishing both case and IBNR reserves, ultimate loss experience may prove better or worse than indicated by the combined claim reserves.
+Added: Adjustments to
+Added: claim reserves are reflected in the period recognized and could increase or decrease earnings for the period.
The following is supplementary information about average historical claims duration as of December 31, 2025.
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General liability
−Removed: The reconciliation of the net incurred and paid claims development tables to the liability for losses, claims and loss adjustment expenses is as
−Removed: December 31, 2024
+Added: The reconciliation of the net incurred and paid claims development tables to the liability for losses, claims and loss adjustment expenses is as follows:
Net outstanding liabilities:
+Added: December 31, 2025
Medicare Supplement
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Total gross liability for unpaid losses, claims and loss adjustment expenses
−Removed: In accordance with general practice in the insurance industry, portions of the life, property and casualty insurance written by the Company are
+Added: (1) For American Southern, other short duration insurance lines are inland marine cargo policies.
+Added: For Bankers Fidelity, other short duration insurance lines for which the detailed claim development is not shown are group accident and health products, which collectively have a claim liability of $ 705 .
+Added: These products are group critical illness, group disability income, group hospital indemnity, and group accident and medical expense.
+Added: There are no reinsurance arrangements for any of these Bankers Fidelity products.
+Added: In accordance with general practice in the insurance industry, portions of the life, property and casualty insurance written by the Company are reinsured;
however, the Company remains liable with respect to reinsurance ceded should any reinsurer be unable or unwilling to meet its obligations.
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Reinsurance recoverables of $ 25,539 were due from General Re Corporation, rated “AA+” by Standard & Poor’s and “A++” (Superior) by A.M.
−Removed: Allowances for uncollectible amounts are established against
−Removed: reinsurance recoverables, if appropriate.
+Added: Allowances for uncollectible amounts are established against reinsurance recoverables, if appropriate.
Property and Casualty Operations
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Limits per occurrence within the reinsurance treaties are as follows:
−Removed: Inland marine and commercial automobile physical damage - $ 225 ,000
−Removed: excess of $ 125 ,000 retention;
−Removed: and automobile liability and general liability - excess coverage of $ 2.0 million less retentions that may vary from $ 150 ,000
−Removed: to $ 500 ,000 depending on the account.
−Removed: American Southern maintains a property catastrophe treaty with a $ 5.5 million limit excess of $ 500 ,000
−Removed: American Southern also issues individual surety bonds with face amounts generally up to $ 1.5 million, and limited to $ 5.0 million in aggregate per account, that are not reinsured.
+Added: Inland marine and commercial automobile physical damage - $ 225 ,000 excess of $ 125 ,000 retention;
+Added: and automobile liability and general liability - excess coverage of $ 2,000 less retentions that may vary from $ 100 ,000 to $ 700 ,000 depending on the account.
+Added: American Southern maintains a property catastrophe treaty with a $ 5,500 limit excess of $ 500 ,000 retention.
Life and Health Operations
Bankers Fidelity has entered into reinsurance contracts ceding the excess of its life retention.
−Removed: Maximum retention by Bankers
−Removed: Fidelity on any one individual life insurance policyholder is $ 200 ,000.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2024, $ 7.2 million of the $ 975.8 million of
−Removed: life insurance in force at Bankers Fidelity was reinsured under a combination of coinsurance and yearly renewable term agreements.
−Removed: Certain prior year reinsurance agreements also remain in force although they no longer provide reinsurance for
−Removed: new business.
−Removed: Bankers Fidelity has also entered into a reinsurance contract ceding excess new Medicare Supplement business to General Re Life
+Added: The maximum retention by Bankers Fidelity on any one individual life insurance policyholder is $ 200 .
+Added: As of December 31, 2025, $ 5,700 of the $ 1,040,300 of life insurance in force at Bankers Fidelity was reinsured under a combination of coinsurance and yearly renewable term agreements.
+Added: Certain prior year reinsurance agreements also remain in force although they no longer provide reinsurance for new business.
+Added: Bankers Fidelity has also entered into a reinsurance contract ceding excess new Medicare Supplement business to General Re Life Corporation.
Ceding thresholds are set annually.
−Removed: During 2024, the liability of the reinsurer was 50 % of all new Medicare Supplement
−Removed: business issued by the Company on amounts up to a maximum retention of $ 15.0 million of annualized premium.
−Removed: Accordingly, $ 5.1 million of the Company’s $ 10.1
−Removed: million of new annualized Medicare Supplement premium was ceded.
−Removed: effects of reinsurance on premiums written, premiums earned and insurance benefits and losses incurred were as follows:
−Removed: For the Year Ended December 31, 2024
+Added: During 2025, the liability of the reinsurer was 71 % of all new Medicare Supplement business issued by the Company.
+Added: This percentage is calculated based on a cession percentage of 50 % on amounts of new business of up to $ 30,000 of annualized premium, and 100 % of all new Medicare Supplement business in excess of $ 30,000 of annualized premium.
+Added: Accordingly, $ 36,900 of the Company’s $ 51,900 of new annualized Medicare Supplement premium was ceded.
+Added: The effects of reinsurance on premiums written, premiums earned and insurance benefits and losses incurred were as follows:
+Added: For the Year Ended Dec 31, 2025
Direct premiums written
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Insurance benefits and losses incurred
−Removed: For the Year Ended December 31, 2023
+Added: (1) This line is net of LFPB remeasurement gain of $ 4,866 for 2025.
+Added: For the Year Ended Dec 31, 2024
Direct premiums written
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Insurance benefits and losses incurred
−Removed: Components of reinsurance receivables at
−Removed: December 31, 2024 and 2023 were as follows:
+Added: (2) This line is net of LFPB remeasurement gain of $ 2,334 for 2024.
+Added: Components of reinsurance receivables at December 31, 2025 and 2024 were as follows:
December 31, 2025
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Recoverable on paid losses
+Added: Ceded benefit reserves
Ceded unearned premiums
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Recoverable on paid losses
+Added: Ceded benefit reserves
Ceded unearned premiums
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Total reinsurance receivables
+Added: Reinsurance Concentration
+Added: General Re percentage
Total income taxes were allocated as follows:
−Removed: Total tax benefit on income
+Added: Year Ended December 31
+Added: Total tax expense (benefit) on income
Tax expense (benefit) on components of shareholders’ equity:
−Removed: Net unrealized income (losses) on investment securities
−Removed: Total tax expense (benefit)
−Removed: A reconciliation of the differences between income taxes computed at the federal statutory income tax rate and the income tax benefit is as
+Added: Unrealized gains and losses on available-for-sale fixed maturity securities, including reclassification adjustments
+Added: LDTI future policy benefit discount-rate remeasurement, net of the related reinsurance-recoverable effect
+Added: Total tax expense on components of shareholders’ equity
+Added: Total tax expense
+Added: A reconciliation of the differences between income taxes computed at the federal statutory income tax rate and the income tax benefit is as follows:
+Added: Year Ended December 31
Federal income tax provision at the statutory rate
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Adjustment for prior years’ estimates to actual
−Removed: Income tax benefit
+Added: Income tax expense (benefit)
Effective tax rate
+Added: State income taxes, net of federal income tax effect (1)(2)
+Added: (1) State income taxes were paid to various states and are included in general and administrative expenses in the Consolidated Statement of Operations.
+Added: (2) State taxes in Florida made up the majority of the tax effect in this category.
+Added: The Company has adopted ASU 2023-09 – Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures which requires the Company to disaggregate state income tax expense, net of the federal income tax effect.
The primary difference between the effective tax rate and the federal statutory income tax rate for 2025 resulted from a permanent difference related to meals and entertainment.
−Removed: Also contributing to differences between the effective tax rate and the federal statutory income tax rate was the adjustment for prior years’ estimates to actual that are generally updated at the completion of the third quarter of each fiscal
−Removed: year and were $ 35 in the year ended December 31, 2024.
−Removed: Another contributing factor to the differences between the effective tax rate
−Removed: and the federal statutory income tax rate was a permanent difference related to dividends-received deduction (“DRD”).
−Removed: The current estimated DRD is adjusted as underlying factors change and can vary from estimates based on, but not limited to,
−Removed: actual distributions from investments as well as the amount of the Company’s taxable income.
−Removed: The primary difference between the effective tax rate and the federal statutory income tax rate for 2023 resulted from the adjustment for prior years’ estimates to actual of $ 299 in the year ended December 31, 2023, which included the return to provision adjustment that is generally updated at the completion of the third
−Removed: quarter of each fiscal year and an adjustment for partnership valuation.
−Removed: Also contributing to the differences between the effective tax rate and the federal statutory income tax rate was a permanent difference related to meals and
−Removed: entertainment.
+Added: contributing factor to the differences between the effective tax rate and the federal statutory income tax rate was a permanent difference related to dividends-received deduction (“DRD”).
+Added: The current estimated DRD is adjusted as underlying
+Added: factors change and can vary from estimates based on, but not limited to, actual distributions from investments as well as the amount of the Company’s taxable income.
+Added: The primary difference between the effective tax rate and the federal statutory income tax rate for 2024 resulted from a permanent difference related to meals and entertainment.
+Added: Also contributing to differences between the effective tax rate and the federal statutory income tax rate was the adjustment for prior years’ estimates to actual that are generally updated at the completion of the third quarter of each fiscal year and were $ 35 in the year ended December 31, 2024.
+Added: Another contributing factor to the differences between the effective tax rate and the federal statutory income tax rate was a permanent difference related to the DRD.
+Added: The current estimated DRD is adjusted as underlying factors change and can vary from estimates based on, but not limited to, actual distributions from investments as well as the amount of the Company’s taxable income.
Deferred tax assets and liabilities at December 31, 2025 and 2024 were comprised of the following:
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Net unrealized investment losses
−Removed: Insurance reserves
Impaired assets
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Deferred and uncollected premiums
+Added: Insurance reserves
Total deferred tax liabilities
Net deferred tax asset
−Removed: The components of income tax benefit were:
−Removed: Current – Federal
−Removed: Deferred – Federal
+Added: The components of income tax expense (benefit) were:
+Added: Year Ended December 31
+Added: income tax expense
+Added: Deferred U.S.
+Added: income tax expense (benefit)
The Company has formal tax-sharing agreements, and files a consolidated income tax return, with its subsidiaries.
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Credit Arrangements
−Removed: On May 12, 2021, the Company entered into a Revolving Credit Agreement with Truist Bank as the lender (the “Lender”).
+Added: On May 12, 2021, the Company entered into a revolving credit agreement (“Revolving Credit Agreement”) with Truist Bank as the lender (the “Lender”).
The Revolving Credit Agreement provides for an unsecured $ 10,000 revolving credit facility that originally matured on April 12, 2024 .
On March 22, 2024, the Company entered into a First Amendment (the "Amendment") to its Revolving Credit Agreement (as amended, the “Credit Agreement”) with the Lender.
−Removed: The Amendment, among other things, (a) updates the interest rate provisions to memorialize that the Company pays interest on the unpaid principal balance of outstanding revolving loans at the Adjusted Term SOFR rate (as defined in the Credit Agreement), plus 2.00 %,
−Removed: (b) extends the maturity date of the revolving credit facility to March 22, 2027 , (c) requires the monthly payment of an unused
−Removed: commitment fee of 0.2 % of the unused facility amount, and (d) requires that the Company maintain a consolidated net worth of not
−Removed: less than $ 64,200 .
−Removed: Except as modified by the Amendment, the existing terms of the original Credit Agreement remain in effect.
−Removed: The Credit Agreement requires the Company to comply with certain covenants, including a debt-to-capital ratio that restricts the Company from incurring consolidated indebtedness
−Removed: that exceeds 35 % of the Company’s consolidated capitalization at any time and maintaining a minimum consolidated net worth, as
−Removed: previously mentioned.
+Added: The Amendment, among other things, (a) updates the interest rate provisions to memorialize that the Company pays interest on the unpaid principal balance of outstanding revolving loans at the Adjusted Term SOFR rate (as defined in the Credit Agreement), plus 2.00 %, (b) extends the maturity date of the revolving credit facility to March 22, 2027 , (c) requires the monthly payment of an unused commitment fee of 0.2 % of the unused facility amount, and (d) requires that the Company maintain a consolidated net worth of not less than $ 64,200 .
+Added: On May 27, 2026, July 31, 2026, October 9, 2026 and October 15, 2026, the Company and the Lender entered into amendments to the Credit Agreement, each of which had the effect of extending the then-applicable deadlines by which the Company must deliver to the Lender (i) the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2025, (ii) the Company’s interim consolidated financial statements for the quarters ended March 31, 2026, June 30, 2026 and September 30, 2026, and (iii) related certificates of the Company’s compliance with financial covenants under the Credit Agreement and certain other matters.
+Added: The Fifth Amendment to the Revolving Credit Agreement, dated October 15, 2026, also amended the minimum AM Best financial strength rating that must be maintained by American Southern Insurance Company to be no lower than “A-” and waived related defaults under the Credit Agreement occurring prior to such amendment.
+Added: Except as modified by these amendments, the existing terms of the original Credit Agreement remain in effect.
+Added: The Credit Agreement requires the Company to comply with certain covenants, including a debt-to-capital ratio that restricts the Company from incurring consolidated indebtedness that exceeds 35 % of the Company’s consolidated capitalization at any time and maintaining a minimum consolidated net worth, as previously mentioned.
The Credit Agreement also contains customary representations and warranties and events of default.
−Removed: Events of default include, among others, (a) the failure by the Company to pay any amounts owed under the Credit
−Removed: Agreement when due, (b) the failure to perform and not timely remedy certain covenants, (c) a change in control of the Company and (d) the occurrence of bankruptcy or insolvency events.
−Removed: Upon an event of default, the Lender may, among other
−Removed: things, declare all obligations under the Credit Agreement immediately due and payable and terminate the revolving commitments.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company had outstanding borrowings of $ 4,023 and $ 3,019 , respectively,
−Removed: under the Credit Agreement.
+Added: Events of default include, among others, (a) the failure by the Company to pay any amounts owed under the Credit Agreement when due, (b) the failure to perform and not timely remedy certain covenants, (c) a change in control of the Company and (d) the occurrence of bankruptcy or insolvency events.
+Added: Upon an event of default, the Lender may, among other things, declare all obligations under the Credit Agreement immediately due and payable and terminate the revolving commitments.
+Added: As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company had outstanding borrowings of $ 5,021 and $ 4,023 , respectively, under the Credit Agreement.
For the year ended 2025 and 2024, the Company incurred $ 257 and $ 283 in interest expense, respectively, on the revolving credit facility borrowing.
−Removed: During the year ended 2024 and 2023, the Company paid $ 9 and $ 0 , respectively, in fees on
−Removed: the available unused amount of the revolving credit facility of $ 6,000 .
−Removed: At December 31, 2024 and 2023, the effective interest rate
−Removed: was 6.67 % and 7.46 %,
−Removed: respectively.
+Added: During the year ended 2025 and 2024, the Company paid $ 12 and $ 9 , respectively, in fees on the available unused amount of the revolving credit facility of $ 5,000 and $ 6,000 , respectively.
+Added: At December 31, 2025 and 2024, the effective interest rate was 5.97 % and 6.67 %, respectively.
Junior Subordinated Debentures
−Removed: The Company has two unconsolidated Connecticut statutory business trusts, which exist for the exclusive
+Added: The Company has two unconsolidated Connecticut statutory business trusts, which exist for the exclusive purposes of:
(i) issuing trust preferred securities (“Trust Preferred Securities”) representing undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the trusts;
−Removed: (ii) investing the gross proceeds of the Trust Preferred Securities in junior
−Removed: subordinated deferrable interest debentures (“Junior Subordinated Debentures”) of the Company;
+Added: (ii) investing the gross proceeds of the Trust Preferred Securities in junior subordinated deferrable interest debentures (“Junior Subordinated Debentures”) of the Company;
and (iii) engaging in those activities necessary or incidental thereto.
−Removed: The outstanding $ 18,042 and $ 15,696 of Junior Subordinated Debentures mature on December 4, 2032
−Removed: and May 15, 2033 , respectively, are callable quarterly, in whole or in part, only at the option of the Company.
−Removed: Prior to July 1,
−Removed: 2023, the interest rate was based on 3 -month LIBOR plus an applicable margin.
−Removed: Effective July 1, 2023, the interest rate is determined based on a reference rate of the 3 -month SOFR plus applicable tenor spread of 0.26161 % plus an applicable margin, ranging from 4.00 %
−Removed: At December 31, 2024, the effective interest rate was 8.82 %.
+Added: The outstanding $ 18,042 and $ 15,696 of Junior Subordinated Debentures mature on December 4, 2032 and May 15, 2033 , respectively, are callable quarterly, in whole or in part, only at the option of the Company.
+Added: Prior to July 1, 2023, the interest rate was based on 3 -month LIBOR plus an applicable margin.
+Added: Effective July 1, 2023, the interest rate is determined based on a reference rate of the 3 -month SOFR plus applicable tenor spread of 0.26161 % plus an applicable margin, ranging from 4.00 % to 4.10 %.
+Added: At December 31, 2025 and 2024, the effective interest rate was 8.13 % and 8.82 %, respectively.
The financial structure of each of Atlantic American Statutory Trust I and II, as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, was as follows:
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Atlantic American Corporation
−Removed: For each of the respective debentures, the Company has the right at any time, and from time to time, to defer
−Removed: payments of interest on the Junior Subordinated Debentures for a period not exceeding 20 consecutive quarters up to the
−Removed: debentures’ respective maturity dates.
−Removed: During any such period, interest will continue to accrue and the Company may not declare or pay any cash dividends or distributions on, or purchase, the Company’s common stock nor make any principal,
−Removed: interest or premium payments on or repurchase any debt securities that rank equally with or junior to the Junior Subordinated Debentures.
−Removed: The Company has the right at any time to dissolve each of the trusts and cause the Junior
−Removed: Subordinated Debentures to be distributed to the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities.
−Removed: The Junior Subordinated Debentures are unsecured and rank junior and subordinate in right of payment to all
−Removed: senior debt of the Parent and are effectively subordinated to all existing and future liabilities of its subsidiaries.
+Added: For each of the respective debentures, the Company has the right at any time, and from time to time, to defer payments of interest on the Junior Subordinated Debentures for a period not exceeding 20 consecutive quarters up to the debentures’ respective maturity dates.
+Added: During any such period, interest will continue to accrue and the Company may not declare or pay any cash dividends or distributions on, or purchase, the Company’s common stock nor make any principal, interest or premium payments on or repurchase any debt securities that rank equally with or junior to the Junior Subordinated Debentures.
+Added: The Company has the right at any time to dissolve each of the trusts and cause the Junior Subordinated Debentures to be distributed to the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities.
+Added: The Junior Subordinated Debentures are unsecured and rank junior and subordinate in right of payment to all senior debt of the Parent and are effectively subordinated to all existing and future liabilities of its subsidiaries.
In 2014, the Company acquired $ 7,500 of the Junior Subordinated Debentures.
−Removed: The Parent has guaranteed, on a subordinated basis, all of the obligations under the Trust Preferred Securities,
−Removed: including payment of the redemption price and any accumulated and unpaid distributions to the extent of available funds and upon dissolution, winding up or liquidation.
−Removed: The Company has two operating
−Removed: lease agreements, each for the use of office space in the ordinary course of business.
−Removed: The original term of the first lease was to automatically renew on an annual basis and was amended on December 26, 2024, when the Company and its subsidiary,
−Removed: Bankers Fidelity Life Insurance Company, entered into a Second Amendment to Lease Agreement (the “Second Amendment”) with 4370 Peachtree LLC.
−Removed: The Second Amendment amends the Lease Agreement, dated November 1, 2007, by and among the same parties
−Removed: (as previously amended, the “Lease Agreement”), pursuant to which the Company leases space for its principal offices and for some of its insurance operations in an office building located in Atlanta, Georgia.
−Removed: Pursuant to the Second Amendment, the
−Removed: Lease Agreement was modified to increase the base rent payable by the Company, beginning January 1, 2025.
+Added: The Parent has guaranteed, on a subordinated basis, all of the obligations under the Trust Preferred Securities, including payment of the redemption price and any accumulated and unpaid distributions to the extent of available funds and upon dissolution, winding up or liquidation.
+Added: The Company has three operating lease agreements, each for the use of office space in the ordinary course of business.
+Added: The original term of the first lease was to automatically renew on an annual basis and was amended on December 26, 2024, when the Company and its subsidiary, Bankers Fidelity Life Insurance Company, entered into a Second Amendment to the Lease Agreement (the “Second Amendment”) with 4370 Peachtree LLC.
+Added: The Second Amendment amends the Lease Agreement, dated November 1, 2007, by and among the same parties (as previously amended, the “Lease Agreement”), pursuant to which the Company leases space for its principal offices and for some of its insurance operations in an office building located in Atlanta, Georgia.
+Added: Pursuant to the Second Amendment, the Lease Agreement was modified to increase the base rent payable by the Company, beginning January 1, 2025.
The Second Amendment also provides for rent adjustment on January 1, 2027, January 1, 2030 and each five years thereafter.
−Removed: The original term of the second lease was ten years
−Removed: and amended in January 2017 to provide for an additional seven years , with a termination date on September 30, 2026.
−Removed: The rate used in
−Removed: determining the present value of lease payments is based upon an estimate of the Company’s incremental secured borrowing rate commensurate with the term of the underlying lease.
+Added: The original term of the second lease was ten years and amended in January 2017 to provide for an additional seven years , with a termination date on September 30, 2026.
+Added: The second lease
+Added: was amended on April 2, 2026 to extend the lease, commencing on October 1, 2026
+Added: and expiring on July 31, 2037.
+Added: The rate used in determining the present value of lease payments is based upon an estimate of the Company’s incremental secured borrowing rate commensurate with the term of the underlying lease.
+Added: The original term of the third lease was three years and renewed for an additional three years , effective August 1, 2025 with a termination date on July 31, 2028.
+Added: The rate used in determining the present value of lease payments is based upon an estimate of the Company’s incremental secured borrowing rate commensurate with the term of the underlying lease.
These leases are accounted for as operating leases, whereby lease expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the term of the lease.
−Removed: expense reported for each of the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 was $ 1,014 .
+Added: Lease expense reported for each of the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 was $ 1,186 and $ 1,014 .
Additional information regarding the Company’s real estate operating leases is as follows:
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Cash payments included in the measurement of lease liabilities reported in operating cash flows
−Removed: Right-of-use assets included in other assets on the consolidated
−Removed: balance sheet
+Added: Right-of-use assets included in other assets on the consolidated balance sheet
Weighted average discount rate
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present value adjustment
−Removed: Operating lease liability included in accounts payable and accrued expenses
−Removed: on the consolidated balance sheet
+Added: Operating lease liability included in accounts payable and accrued expenses on the consolidated balance sheet
Benefit Plans
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On May 24, 2022, the Company’s shareholders approved the 2022 Equity and Incentive Compensation Plan (the “2022 Plan”).
−Removed: The 2022 Plan authorizes the grant of up to 3,000,000 stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted shares, restricted stock units, performance shares, performance units and other awards, and succeeded the
−Removed: 2012 Plan for the purpose of providing the Company’s non-employee directors, consultants, officers and other employees incentives and rewards for performance and service.
+Added: The 2022 Plan authorizes the grant of up to 3,000,000 stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted shares, restricted stock units, performance shares, performance units and other awards, and succeeded the 2012 Plan for the purpose of providing the Company’s non-employee directors, consultants, officers and other employees incentives and rewards for performance and service.
During the year ended 2025 and 2024, there were no restricted shares issued under the 2022 Plan.
−Removed: estimated fair value of the restricted shares issued are based on the common stock price at date of grant.
+Added: The estimated fair value of the restricted shares issued are based on the common stock price at date of grant.
Stock grants are generally issued from treasury shares.
−Removed: Vesting of restricted shares generally occurs after a one to three year period following the
−Removed: date of grant.
+Added: Vesting of restricted shares generally occurs after a one to three year period following the date of grant.
The Company accounts for forfeitures as they occur.
−Removed: There were no stock options granted or outstanding under the
−Removed: 2022 Plan in 2024 and 2023.
+Added: There were no stock options granted or outstanding under the 2022 Plan in 2025 and 2024.
Shares available for future grant under the 2022 Plan at December 31, 2025 and 2024 were 2,960,000 .
The Company initiated an employees’ savings plan (the “Plan”) qualified under Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code in May 1995.
−Removed: covers substantially all of the Company’s employees.
+Added: The Plan covers substantially all of the Company’s employees.
Effective January 1, 2009, the Company modified the Plan such that the Plan would operate on a safe harbor basis.
Under the Plan, employees may defer up to 50 % of their compensation, not to exceed the annual deferral limit.
−Removed: The Company’s total matching contribution for 2024 and 2023 was $ 306 and $ 283 , respectively, and
−Removed: consisted of a contribution equal to 35 % of up to the first 6 % of each participant’s contributions.
+Added: The Company’s total matching contribution for 2025 and 2024 was $ 270 and $ 306 , respectively, and consisted of a contribution equal to 35 % of up to the first 6 % of each participant’s contributions.
In addition to the matching contribution, the Company also provided a 3 % safe harbor non-elective contribution in 2025 and 2024 of $ 716 and $ 682 , respectively.
All contributions were made in cash.
−Removed: Participants are 100% vested in their own contributions and the vested percentage attributable
−Removed: to certain employer contributions is based on a five-year graded schedule.
+Added: Participants are 100% vested in their own contributions and the vested percentage attributable to certain employer contributions is based on a five-year graded schedule.
Agent Stock Purchase Plan
The Company initiated a nonqualified stock purchase plan (the “Agent Stock Purchase Plan”) in May 2012.
−Removed: The purpose of the Agent Stock Purchase
−Removed: Plan is to promote and advance the interests of the Company and its shareholders by providing independent agents who qualify as participants with an opportunity to purchase the common stock of the Company.
−Removed: Under the Agent Stock Purchase Plan,
−Removed: payment for shares of common stock of the Company is made by either deduction from an agent’s commission payment or a direct cash payment.
+Added: The purpose of the Agent Stock Purchase Plan is to promote and advance the interests of
+Added: the Company and its shareholders by providing independent agents who qualify as participants with an opportunity to purchase the common stock of the Company.
+Added: Under the Agent Stock Purchase Plan, payment for shares of common stock of the Company
+Added: is made by either deduction from an agent’s commission payment or a direct cash payment.
Stock purchases are made at the end of each calendar quarter at the then current market value.
Preferred Stock
−Removed: The Company had 55,000 shares
−Removed: of Series D preferred stock (“Series D Preferred Stock”) outstanding at December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
+Added: The Company had 55,000 shares of Series D preferred stock (“Series D Preferred Stock”) outstanding at December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
All of the shares of Series D Preferred Stock are held by an affiliate of the Company’s controlling shareholder.
−Removed: The outstanding
−Removed: shares of Series D Preferred Stock have a par value of $ 1 per share and a redemption value of $ 100 per share;
+Added: The outstanding shares of Series D Preferred Stock have a par value of $ 1 per share and a redemption value of $ 100 per share;
accrue annual dividends at a rate of $ 7.25 per share (payable in cash or shares of the Company’s common stock at the option of the board of directors of the Company) and are cumulative.
−Removed: In certain circumstances, the shares of the Series D
−Removed: Preferred Stock may be convertible into an aggregate of approximately 1,378,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, subject to
−Removed: certain adjustments and provided that such adjustments do not result in the Company issuing more than approximately 2,703,000
−Removed: shares of common stock without obtaining prior shareholder approval;
+Added: In certain circumstances, the shares of the Series D Preferred Stock may be convertible into an aggregate of approximately 1,378,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, subject to certain adjustments and provided that such adjustments do not result in the Company issuing more than approximately 2,703,000 shares of common stock without obtaining prior shareholder approval;
and are redeemable solely at the Company’s option.
The Series D Preferred Stock is not currently convertible.
−Removed: The Company had accrued, but unpaid, dividends, on the Series D
−Removed: Preferred Stock of $ 18 at December 31, 2024 and 2023.
−Removed: During each of 2024 and 2023, the Company paid Series D Preferred Stock
−Removed: dividends of $ 399 .
−Removed: Loss Per Common Share
−Removed: Basic loss per share was computed by dividing net loss available to common shareholders by the weighted average number of common shares
−Removed: outstanding during the period.
−Removed: The computation of diluted loss per share reflected the effect of potentially dilutive securities.
−Removed: A reconciliation of the numerator and denominator of the loss per common share calculations is as follows:
+Added: The Company had accrued, but unpaid, dividends, on the Series D Preferred Stock of $ 18 at December 31, 2025 and 2024.
+Added: During each of 2025 and 2024, the Company paid Series D Preferred Stock dividends of $ 399 .
+Added: Earnings (Loss) Per Common Share
+Added: Basic income (loss) per share was computed by dividing net income (loss) available to common shareholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period.
+Added: computation of diluted income (loss) per share reflected the effect of potentially dilutive securities.
+Added: A reconciliation of the numerator and denominator of the income (loss) per common share calculations is as follows:
For the Year Ended December 31, 2025
−Removed: Average Shares
−Removed: (In thousands)
−Removed: Basic and Diluted Loss Per Common Share
−Removed: Net loss before preferred stock dividends
+Added: Basic and Diluted Earnings Per Common Share
+Added: Net income before preferred stock dividends
Less preferred stock dividends
−Removed: Net loss applicable to common shareholders
−Removed: For the Year Ended December 31, 2023
−Removed: Average Shares
−Removed: (In thousands)
+Added: Net income applicable to common shareholders
+Added: For the Year Ended December 31, 2024 (Restated)
Basic and Diluted Loss Per Common Share
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Net loss applicable to common shareholders
−Removed: The assumed conversion of the Company’s Series D Preferred Stock was excluded from the earnings per common share calculation for 2024 and 2023
−Removed: since its impact would have been antidilutive.
+Added: The assumed conversion of the Company’s Series D Preferred Stock was excluded from the earnings per common share calculation for 2025 and 2024 since its impact would have been antidilutive.
Statutory Reporting
−Removed: The assets, liabilities and results of operations have been reported on the basis of GAAP, which varies in some respects from statutory accounting
−Removed: practices (“SAP”) prescribed or permitted by insurance regulatory authorities.
+Added: The assets, liabilities and results of operations have been reported on the basis of GAAP, which varies in some respects from statutory accounting practices (“SAP”) prescribed or permitted by
+Added: insurance regulatory authorities.
The principal differences between SAP and GAAP are that under SAP:
−Removed: (i) carrying value of certain investments differ on a GAAP versus SAP basis, such as fixed
−Removed: maturities that are shown at amortized cost for SAP versus fair value for GAAP (ii) certain assets that are non-admitted assets are eliminated from the balance sheet;
−Removed: (iii) acquisition costs for policies are expensed as incurred, while they are
−Removed: deferred and amortized over the estimated life of the policies under GAAP;
+Added: (i) carrying value of certain investments differ on a GAAP versus SAP basis, such as fixed maturity securities that are shown at amortized
+Added: cost for SAP versus fair value for GAAP;
+Added: (ii) certain assets that are non-admitted assets are eliminated from the balance sheet;
+Added: (iii) acquisition costs for policies are expensed as incurred, while they are deferred and amortized over the
+Added: estimated life of the policies under GAAP;
(iv) the provision that is made for deferred income taxes is different than under GAAP;
−Removed: (v) the timing and methodology of establishing certain reserves is different than
−Removed: (vi) reinsurance is shown net on balance sheet for SAP and (vii) certain valuation allowances attributable to certain investments are required under SAP such as asset valuation reserve and interest maintenance reserve.
+Added: (v) the timing and methodology of establishing certain reserves is different than under GAAP;
+Added: (vi) reinsurance
+Added: is shown net on balance sheet for SAP;
+Added: and (vii) certain valuation allowances attributable to certain investments are required under SAP such as asset valuation reserve and interest maintenance reserve.
The Company meets the minimum capital requirements in the states in which it does business.
−Removed: The amount of reported statutory net income and
−Removed: capital and surplus (shareholders’ equity) for the Parent’s insurance subsidiaries for the years ended December 31 was as follows:
+Added: The amount of reported statutory net income and capital and surplus (shareholders’ equity) for the Parent’s insurance subsidiaries as filed in the annual statements with the state insurance departments for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 was as follows:
Bankers Fidelity, net income
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Statutory capital and surplus
−Removed: Under the insurance code of the state in which each insurance subsidiary is domiciled, dividend payments to the Parent by its insurance
−Removed: subsidiaries are subject to certain limitations without the prior approval of the applicable state’s Insurance Commissioner.
+Added: Under the insurance code of the state in which each insurance subsidiary is domiciled, dividend payments to the Parent by its insurance subsidiaries are subject to certain limitations without the prior approval of the applicable state’s Insurance Commissioner.
The Parent received dividends of $ 8,400 and $ 9,000 in the years ended 2025 and 2024, respectively, from its subsidiaries.
−Removed: dividend payments to the Parent by the insurance subsidiaries in excess of $ 6,347 would require prior approval.
+Added: In 2026, dividend payments to the Parent by the insurance subsidiaries in excess of $ 8,058 would require prior approval.
Related Party Transactions
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These transactions include the leasing of office space, certain investing and financing activities, as well as inconsequential administrative and consulting services.
−Removed: At December 31, 2024, two members of the Company’s board of directors, including the Company’s Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, were considered to be affiliates of the majority
−Removed: The Company leases approximately 49,586
−Removed: square feet of office and covered garage space from one such controlled entity, 4370 Peachtree LLC.
+Added: At December 31, 2025, two members of the Company’s board of directors, including the Company’s Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, were considered to be affiliates of the majority shareholder.
+Added: The Company leases approximately 49,586 square feet of office and covered garage space from one such controlled entity, 4370 Peachtree LLC.
During the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company paid $ 1,352 and $ 1,153 , respectively, under this lease.
−Removed: On December 26, 2024, the Company and its subsidiary, Bankers Fidelity Life Insurance Company, entered into a Second Amendment to
−Removed: Lease Agreement (the “Second Amendment”) with 4370 Peachtree LLC.
−Removed: The Second Amendment amends the Lease Agreement, dated November 1, 2007, by and among the same parties (as previously amended, the “Lease Agreement”), pursuant to which the
−Removed: Company leases space for its principal offices and for some of its insurance operations in an office building located in Atlanta, Georgia.
−Removed: Pursuant to the Second Amendment, the Lease Agreement was modified to increase the base rent payable by
−Removed: the Company, beginning January 1, 2025.
−Removed: The Second Amendment also provides for rent adjustment on January 1, 2027, January 1, 2030 and each five years thereafter.
−Removed: Certain financing for the Company has also been provided by this entity in the form of an investment in the Series D Preferred Stock (See Note
−Removed: During the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company paid this entity $ 399 in dividends on the Series D Preferred
−Removed: Certain members of the Company’s management and board of directors are shareholders and on the board of directors of Gray Media, Inc., formerly
−Removed: Gray Television, Inc.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company owned 880,272 shares of Gray Class A common stock
−Removed: and 106,000 shares of Gray common stock.
−Removed: The aggregate carrying value of these investments in Gray at December 31, 2024 and 2023
−Removed: was $ 6,751 and $ 8,490 ,
−Removed: respectively.
−Removed: In each of the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, Gray paid the Company approximately $ 2,173 and $ 2,050 in insurance premiums related to certain
−Removed: voluntary employee benefit plans.
+Added: On December 26, 2024, the Company and its subsidiary, Bankers Fidelity Life Insurance Company, entered into a Second Amendment to Lease Agreement (the “Second Amendment”) with 4370 Peachtree
+Added: The Second Amendment amends the Lease Agreement, dated November 1, 2007, by and among the same parties (as previously amended, the “Lease Agreement”), pursuant to which the Company leases space for its principal offices and for some of
+Added: its insurance operations in an office building located in Atlanta, Georgia.
+Added: Pursuant to the Second Amendment, the Lease Agreement was modified to increase the base rent payable by the Company, beginning January 1, 2025.
+Added: The Second Amendment
+Added: also provides for rent adjustment on January 1, 2027, January 1, 2030 and each five years thereafter.
+Added: Certain financing for the Company has also been provided by an entity affiliated with the controlling shareholder of the Company in the form of an investment in the Series D Preferred Stock (See Note 14).
+Added: During the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company paid this entity $ 399 in dividends on the Series D Preferred Stock.
+Added: Certain members of the Company’s management and board of directors are shareholders and on the board of directors of Gray Media, Inc.
+Added: As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company owned 880,272 shares of Gray Class A common stock and 106,000 shares of Gray common stock.
+Added: The aggregate carrying value of these investments in Gray at December 31, 2025 and 2024 was $ 11,076 and $ 6,751 , respectively.
+Added: In each of the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, Gray paid the Company approximately $ 2,119 and $ 2,173 in insurance premiums related to certain voluntary employee benefit plans.
Segment Information
−Removed: The Parent’s primary insurance subsidiaries operate with relative autonomy and each company is evaluated based
−Removed: on its individual performance.
+Added: The Parent’s primary insurance subsidiaries operate with relative autonomy and each company is evaluated based on its individual performance.
American Southern operates in the property and casualty insurance market, while Bankers Fidelity operates in the life and health insurance market.
−Removed: Each segment derives revenue from the collection of premiums, as
−Removed: well as from investment income.
+Added: Each segment derives revenue from the collection of premiums, as well as from investment income.
The Company’s strategy is to focus on well-defined geographic, demographic and/or product niches within the insurance marketplace.
−Removed: Substantially all revenue other than that in the corporate and other segment is
−Removed: from external sources.
−Removed: The Company adopted ASU No.
−Removed: 2023-07, Segment Reporting- An Amendment for Improvements to Reportable Segment
−Removed: Disclosures (Topic 280) in December 2024.
−Removed: The most significant provision was for the Company to disclose significant segment expenses that are regularly provided to the Chief Operating Decision Maker (“CODM”).
−Removed: Our CODM is the Company’s
−Removed: Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer.
+Added: Substantially all revenue other than that in the corporate and other segment is from external sources.
+Added: Our Chief Operating Decision Maker (“CODM”) is the Company’s Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer.
The segment’s most significant expenses include insurance benefits and losses incurred and other expenses, such as commissions and underwriting.
−Removed: Interest expense at the segment level is
−Removed: insignificant.
+Added: Interest expense at the segment level is insignificant.
To assess profitability on a reportable segment basis, the CODM reviews income (loss) before income taxes.
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Insurance benefits and losses incurred
+Added: Future policy benefit remeasurement gain
Expenses deferred
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Total expenses
−Removed: Underwriting income
+Added: Underwriting income (loss)
Net investment income (loss)
Other income (loss)
−Removed: Net realized gains
−Removed: Unrealized losses on equity securities
+Added: Net realized gains (losses)
+Added: Unrealized gains on equity securities
Income (loss) before income taxes
Total revenues
−Removed: For the Year Ended December 31, 2023
+Added: For the Year Ended December 31, 2024 (Restated)
& Eliminations
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Insurance benefits and losses incurred
+Added: Future policy benefit remeasurement gain
Expenses deferred
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Total expenses
−Removed: Underwriting income
+Added: Underwriting income (loss)
Net investment income (loss)
Other income (loss)
−Removed: Net realized gains (losses)
+Added: Net realized gains
Unrealized losses on equity securities
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Commitments and Contingencies
−Removed: From time to time, the Company is, and expects to continue to be, involved in various claims and lawsuits incidental to and arising in the
−Removed: ordinary course of its business.
−Removed: In the opinion of management, any such known claims are not expected to have a material effect on the financial condition or results of operations of the Company.
+Added: From time to time, the Company is, and expects to continue to be, involved in various claims and lawsuits incidental to and arising in the ordinary course of its business.
+Added: In the opinion of
+Added: management, any such known claims are not expected to have a material effect on the financial condition or results of operations of the Company.
Regulatory Matters
−Removed: Like all domestic insurance companies, the Company’s insurance subsidiaries are subject to regulation and supervision in the jurisdictions in
−Removed: which they do business.
−Removed: Statutes typically delegate regulatory, supervisory, and administrative powers to state insurance commissioners.
−Removed: From time to time, and in the ordinary course of business, the Company receives notices and inquiries from
−Removed: state insurance departments with respect to various matters.
+Added: Like all domestic insurance companies, the Company’s insurance subsidiaries are subject to regulation and supervision in the jurisdictions in which they do business.
+Added: Statutes typically
+Added: delegate regulatory, supervisory, and administrative powers to state insurance commissioners.
+Added: From time to time, and in the ordinary course of business, the Company receives notices and inquiries from state insurance departments with respect
+Added: to various matters.
In the opinion of management, any such known regulatory matters are not expected to have a material effect on the financial condition or results of operations of the Company.
Subsequent Events
−Removed: On March 25, 2025 , the Company announced that the board of directors declared an annual cash dividend of $ 0.02
−Removed: per share of common stock that is payable to shareholders of record at the close of business on April 9, 2025 .
+Added: Management evaluated events and transactions occurring after December 31, 2025 through October 16, 2026, the date these consolidated financial statements were
+Added: available to be issued, to determine whether such events required recognition or disclosure in the consolidated financial statements.
+Added: Based on this evaluation, management identified the following subsequent events:
+Added: Delinquent SEC Filings
+Added: As previously disclosed, the Company has received notices from Nasdaq stating that the Company is not in compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5250(c)(1), which requires listed companies to timely file all required periodic financial reports with the SEC.
+Added: The Company is not in compliance with the Rule due to its delay in filing this Form 10-K and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2026 and June 30, 2026 (collectively, the “Delinquent Reports”).
+Added: Following the Company’s timely submission of a compliance plan, Nasdaq informed the Company that it was granted an extension until October 12, 2026 to regain compliance with the Rule.
+Added: The Company expects that it will receive a staff delisting determination from Nasdaq due to its inability to file each of the Delinquent Reports by such date.
+Added: While the Company intends to appeal such determination to a Nasdaq Hearings Panel, an appeal may not be successful in preventing the suspension of trading, or delisting of, the Company’s common stock from Nasdaq.
+Added: The Company continues to work diligently toward filing the remaining Delinquent Reports and regaining compliance with the Rule as promptly as practicable.
+Added: CFO Resignation
+Added: As previously disclosed, on April 29, 2026, J.
+Added: Ross Franklin notified the Company of his decision to resign as Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of
+Added: the Company, effective May 27, 2026.
+Added: Franklin’s decision to resign is not due to any disagreement with the Company on any matter relating to the Company’s operations, policies or practices.
+Added: The Company has commenced the process to name a
+Added: successor to Mr.
+Added: Franklin as Chief Financial Officer.
+Added: Amendments to Credit Agreement
+Added: On May 27, 2026, July 31, 2026, October 9, 2026 and October 15, 2026, the Company entered into amendments to its Revolving Credit Agreement dated as of May 12, 2021 (as amended, the “Credit Agreement”) with Truist Bank as the lender (the “Lender”), each of which had the effect of extending the then-applicable deadlines by which the Company must deliver to the Lender (i) the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2025, (ii) the Company’s interim consolidated financial statements for the quarters ended March 31, 2026, June 30, 2026 and September 30, 2026, and (iii) related certificates of the Company’s compliance with financial covenants under the Credit Agreement and certain other matters.
+Added: The Fifth Amendment to the Revolving Credit Agreement, dated October 15, 2026, also amended the minimum AM Best financial strength rating that must be maintained by American Southern Insurance Company to be no lower than “A-” and waived related defaults under the Credit Agreement occurring prior to such amendment.
+Added: Bankers Fidelity Audited Statutory Financial Statements and Second-Quarter Statutory Filing
+Added: As of the date of this Form 10-K, Bankers Fidelity has not yet filed its annual audited statutory financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 or quarterly statutory financial statements for the quarter ended June 30, 2026 with the applicable state insurance regulatory authorities.
+Added: Bankers Fidelity is working with its independent auditors and the state regulators to complete and file the required financial statements and intends to seek an extension if appropriate.
+Added: If Bankers Fidelity is unable to file the required financial statements by the applicable deadlines (including as the same may be extended), actions may be imposed by the applicable regulatory authorities.
+Added: Nebraska Regulatory Examination
+Added: On August 24, 2026, the Nebraska Department of Insurance commenced a regulatory examination of the applicable insurance subsidiary.
+Added: The Company is cooperating with the
+Added: Any findings or recommendations will be evaluated upon completion of the examination and issuance of a final examination report.
Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure
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