Item 4. Controls and Procedures
Item 4. Controls and Procedures
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
We maintain disclosure controls and procedures, which are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the reports we file or submit under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. During the period covered by this report, we, under the supervision and with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act) and determined our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective due to a material weakness identified related to the ineffective risk assessment of a process level control used to determine our non-performance risk adjustment in developing the discount rate used to estimate the fair value of some of the guarantee features of our variable annuity products, as described in "Item 9A. Controls and Procedures—Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting" previously disclosed in our 2022 Annual Report. Consequently, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was not effective as of September 30, 2023.
The Company began remediation of the material weakness in the first quarter of 2023 and expects that it will be remediated by the end of the year. Remediation will include additional evidence supporting the review and challenge of inputs and results as well as enhancements to the governance process in developing the discount rate used to estimate the fair value of some of our guarantee features.
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
As described above, the Company is taking steps to remediate the material weakness in its internal control over financial reporting and is implementing additional controls to remediate the material weakness. Additionally, as part of the adoption of LDTI, the Company has made certain changes to its valuation, financial reporting, and disclosure processes. As a result of these changes, the Company has made changes to certain existing controls, and implemented certain new controls, which address the risks of material misstatement in these processes. Other than these additional controls, there was no change in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act) during the quarter ended September 30, 2023, that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
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Part II - Other Information
Item 1. Legal Proceedings.
For a discussion of legal proceedings, see Note 16 of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this report .
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