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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 10-K

 

ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2023

OR

TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the Transition Period from ___________ to ___________

001-34809

Commission File Number

GLOBAL INDEMNITY GROUP, LLC

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

Delaware

 

85-2619578

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

 

112 S. French Street, Suite 105

Wilmington, DE

19801

(Address of principal executive office including zip code)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (302) 691-6276

SECURITIES REGISTERED PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OF THE ACT:

 

Title of each class

 

Trading Symbol

 

Name of each exchange on which registered

Class A Common Shares

 

GBLI

 

New York Stock Exchange

 

SECURITIES REGISTERED PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(g) OF THE ACT: NONE

 

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes No

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, smaller reporting company, or emerging growth company. See definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.:

Large accelerated filer ; Accelerated filer ; Non-accelerated filer ; Smaller reporting company ; Emerging growth company

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report.

If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by check mark whether the financial statements of the registrant included in the filing reflect the correction of an error to previously issued financial statements.

Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis of incentive-based compensation received by any of the registrant’s executive officers during the relevant recovery period pursuant to §240.10D-1(b).

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act). Yes No

The aggregate market value of the common equity held by non-affiliates of the registrant, computed by reference to the price of the registrant’s class A common shares as of the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter (based on the last reported sale price on the New York Stock Exchange as of such date), was $230,791,045. There are no class B common shares held by non-affiliates of the registrant.

As of March 5, 2024, the registrant had outstanding 9,785,318 class A common shares and 3,793,612 class B common shares.

 

 


 

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

Portions of the Registrant’s Proxy Statement relating to the 2024 Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be filed with the SEC within 120 days of the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 are incorporated by reference into Part III of this report.

 

 


 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

 

 

Page

 

 

PART I

 

 

 

 

 

Item 1.

 

BUSINESS

4

 

 

 

 

Item 1A.

 

RISK FACTORS

21

 

 

 

 

Item 1B.

 

UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS

35

 

 

 

 

Item 1C.

 

CYBERSECURITY

35

 

 

 

 

Item 2.

 

PROPERTIES

37

 

 

 

 

Item 3.

 

LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

37

 

 

 

 

Item 4.

 

MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES

37

 

 

 

 

 

 

PART II

 

 

 

 

 

Item 5.

 

MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES

38

 

 

 

 

Item 7.

 

MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

40

 

 

 

 

Item 7A.

 

QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

70

 

 

 

 

Item 8.

 

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA

72

 

 

 

 

Item 9.

 

CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE

125

 

 

 

 

Item 9A.

 

CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

125

 

 

 

 

Item 9B.

 

OTHER INFORMATION

127

 

 

 

 

Item 9C.

 

DISCLOSURE REGARDING FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS THAT PREVENT INSPECTIONS

127

 

 

 

 

 

 

PART III

 

 

 

 

 

Item 10.

 

DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

128

 

 

 

 

Item 11.

 

EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

128

 

 

 

 

Item 12.

 

SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT, AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS

128

 

 

 

 

Item 13.

 

CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE

128

 

 

 

 

Item 14.

 

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES

128

 

 

 

 

 

 

PART IV

 

 

 

 

 

Item 15.

 

EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES

129

 

 

 

 

Item 16.

 

FORM 10-K SUMMARY

131

 

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PART I

Item 1. BUSINESS

Some of the information contained in this Item 1 or set forth elsewhere in this report, including information with respect to Global Indemnity Group, LLC and its subsidiaries’ plans and strategy, constitutes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Please see "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" at the end of Item 7 of Part II and “Risk Factors” in Item 1A of Part I for a discussion of important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results described in or implied by the forward-looking statements contained herein.

History

 

Global Indemnity Group, LLC (“Global Indemnity” or “GBLI”), a Delaware limited liability company formed on June 23, 2020, replaced Global Indemnity Limited, incorporated in the Cayman Islands as an exempted company with limited liability, as the ultimate parent company of the Global Indemnity group of companies as a result of a redomestication transaction completed on August 28, 2020. This transaction resulted in the redomestication of the Company to the United States. Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s class A common shares are publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”). Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s predecessors have been publicly traded since 2003.

 

Effective August 28, 2020, Global Indemnity Group, LLC became a publicly traded partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes. Since August 28, 2020, Global Indemnity Group, LLC believes that it has met in previous taxable years, and intends to manage its affairs so that it will continue to meet in the current and subsequent taxable years, the qualifying income exception to maintain partnership status for U.S. federal income tax purposes. As a partnership, Global Indemnity Group, LLC is generally not subject to federal income tax and most state income taxes. For U.S. federal income tax purposes, a holder of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s class A common shares is treated as a partner in a partnership. Shareholders are required to take into account their allocable share of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s items of income, gains, losses, deductions, and other items of the partnership for Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s taxable year ending within or with the shareholders’ taxable year, regardless of whether any cash or other distributions are made to shareholders. Global Indemnity Group, LLC will furnish to each shareholder, as soon as reasonably practical after the close of each calendar year, specific tax information, including a Schedule K-1, which describes the shareholders’ share of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s income, gains, losses, and deductions for Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s preceding taxable year. Income earned by the subsidiaries of Global Indemnity Group, LLC is subject to corporate tax in the United States and, therefore, is not taxable to Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s shareholders until the income is distributed by the subsidiaries to Global Indemnity Group, LLC.

 

The Company operates its business through two segments, Penn-America and Non-Core Operations. The Penn-America segment is mainly comprised of what was the Commercial Specialty segment. Penn-America includes all core products which include Wholesale Commercial, Programs, Assumed Reinsurance, and the InsurTech products. InsurTech products are Collectibles, VacantExpress. and smaller products which are distributed via the internet. Penn-America’s gross premiums written in 2023 was $369.7 million. The other segment is Non-Core Operations. It includes business that has been de-emphasized or is no longer written.

 

During the fourth quarter of 2023, the Company restructured its insurance operations to strengthen its market presence and enhance GBLI's focus on core products and made the decision to manage the business through two segments, Penn-America and Non-Core Operations. Management believes these segments allow users of the Company’s financial statements to better understand the Company's performance, better assess prospects for future net cash flows, and make more informed judgments about the Company as a whole. Segment results for prior years have been revised to reflect these changes.

 

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General

 

GBLI provides its insurance products across a distribution network that includes wholesale general agents, retail agents, and direct-to-consumer. The Company manages the distribution of its core product offerings through Penn-America (formerly known as Commercial Specialty). Penn-America offers specialty property and casualty products designed for GBLI's Wholesale Commercial, Programs, InsurTech, and Assumed Reinsurance product offerings. Penn-America’s products are offered primarily in the excess and surplus lines marketplace. The Company also has a Non-Core Operations segment that contains lines of business that have been de-emphasized or are no longer being written.

 

The Company's management team is experienced in the insurance industry and the excess and surplus lines marketplace and has long-standing relationships in the industry. The Company’s organizational structure allows it to be highly responsive and flexible in interactions with its agents.

 

Collectively, the Company’s insurance subsidiaries are licensed in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The Penn-America segment comprises the Company’s Insurance Operations (“Insurance Operations”).

Business Segments

See Note 22 of the notes to consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for gross and net written premiums, income, and total assets of each operating segment for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021. For a discussion of the variances between years, see “Results of Operations” in Item 7 of Part II of this report.

 

PENN-AMERICA

 

The Penn-America segment distributes specialty property and casualty insurance products in the excess and surplus lines marketplace. Penn-America targets Main Street Specialty Excess & Surplus Lines focusing on small businesses such as Artisan Contractors, Habitational (Landlord), General Services, Vacant Properties, Mercantile & Restaurants, Bars & Taverns, Commercial Buildings, and Collectibles. Penn-America is one of the larger providers of insurance to Main Street businesses and built this position by focusing on this market for over 40 years. Penn-America underwrites commercial coverages for 900 classes of casualty business and 200 classes of property business. Companies within the Insurance Operations are eligible to write on a surplus lines (non-admitted) basis and others are licensed to write on an admitted basis in all 50 U.S. States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. This provides the Company with flexibility in designing products and in determining rates to meet emerging risks and discontinuities in the marketplace.

Penn-America’s insurance products target specific, defined groups of insureds with customized coverage to meet their needs. The primary business divisions within the Penn-America segment include:

Wholesale Commercial distributes property and general liability products for small commercial businesses through a select network of wholesale general agents with specific binding authority using company administered systems to rate, quote and issue policies.

Programs distributes property and general liability niche products through program administrators with specific binding authority. Program administrators generally use their own proprietary systems, for which the Company’s rates and underwriting criteria are integrated.

InsurTech offers property and general liability products distributed using company administered systems, and include Collectibles, digital direct-to-consumer insurance coverage for owners of collections, and VacantExpress, insurance coverage for owners of properties under construction, under renovation, vacant, or rented, distributed through wholesale general agents and retail agents.

Assumed Reinsurance is composed of individual treaties with small-to-medium sized financially sound insurers in niche product lines that are contracted through reinsurance brokers/intermediaries. These treaties are focused on the US property and casualty market and will typically involve risk sharing by either the carrier or the producer of the business. Assumed reinsurance treaties are acquired through brokers.

 

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The following table sets forth the gross written premiums for each of the primary business divisions within Penn-America:

 

 

For the Years Ended December 31,

 

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Amount

 

 

Percent

 

 

Amount

 

 

Percent

 

 

Amount

 

 

Percent

 

Wholesale Commercial

 

$

234,941

 

 

 

63.6

%

 

$

219,688

 

 

 

56.6

%

 

$

194,196

 

 

 

55.5

%

Programs

 

 

72,535

 

 

 

19.5

 

 

 

121,838

 

 

 

31.4

 

 

 

115,035

 

 

 

32.9

 

InsurTech

 

 

48,309

 

 

 

13.1

 

 

 

40,977

 

 

 

10.6

 

 

 

37,881

 

 

 

10.8

 

Assumed Reinsurance

 

 

13,875

 

 

 

3.8

 

 

 

5,464

 

 

 

1.4

 

 

 

2,850

 

 

 

0.8

 

Total

 

$

369,660

 

 

 

100.0

%

 

$

387,967

 

 

 

100.0

%

 

$

349,962

 

 

 

100.0

%

 

Excess and Surplus Lines Marketplace

 

Penn-America operates in the excess and surplus lines marketplace. The excess and surplus lines market provides coverage for businesses that often do not fit the underwriting criteria of an insurance company operating in the standard markets due to their relatively unpredictable loss patterns and unique niches of exposure requiring rate and policy form flexibility. Without the excess and surplus lines market, certain businesses would have to self-insure their exposures, or seek coverage outside the U.S. market.

 

Competition in the excess and surplus lines market tends to focus less on price and more on availability, service, and other considerations. While excess and surplus lines market exposures may have higher perceived insurance risk than their standard market counterparts, excess and surplus lines market underwriters historically have been able to generate underwriting profitability superior to standard market underwriters.

In the standard property and casualty insurance market, insurance rates and forms are highly regulated; products and coverage are largely uniform and have relatively predictable exposures. In the standard market, policies must be written by insurance companies that are admitted to transact business in the state in which the policy is issued. As a result, in the standard property and casualty insurance market, insurance companies tend to compete for customers primarily on the basis of price, coverage, value-added service, and financial strength.

The Company offers several specialized products that are sold in the admitted market. The insurance products required by these insureds are not otherwise available from standard market insurers. These policies are subject to greater state regulation than the surplus lines market, particularly with regards to rate and form filing requirements and the ability to enter and exit lines of business. Insureds purchasing coverage from specialty admitted insurance companies do so because the insurance product is not otherwise available from standard market insurers. VacantExpress represents a large majority of policies that Penn-America writes in this manner.

In 2023, excluding Assumed Reinsurance, Penn-America wrote 89% of their business on a non-admitted basis and 11% on an admitted basis.

Marketing and Distribution

 

The Company offers its insurance products across a wide distribution network that includes wholesale general agents, retail agents, and direct-to-consumer. The Company’s primary distribution strategy is to maintain longstanding strong relationships with high-quality wholesale general agents and retail agents. Penn-America’s average tenure with its wholesale agents is 15 years. The Company has an extensive process of selecting and appointing agents qualified to distribute excess and surplus lines business based on their expertise, experience and reputation. Prior to appointing a new wholesale agent, the Company conducts financial and product expertise due diligence.

The Company grants wholesale general agents “trial period access” to its proprietary systems and underwriting tools to “test quote” policies. The Company evaluates the ability of the agent to execute procedures properly before giving full authority to produce business. Contracts are executed for each agent reflecting key terms such as direct commissions and profit commissions. Agents are eligible for profit commissions for superior underwriting results.

For Wholesale Commercial and Programs, the appointed agents’ performance is routinely monitored by Penn-America's internal underwriting staff. Production, loss results, findings from policy reviews, etc. are shared as part of Penn-America's agency management practices. Additionally, in-person visitations are conducted as needed by their assigned underwriter and/or manager with several additional visits conducted virtually to foster relationships. Agents are visited at various industry events.

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Penn-America products, excluding assumed reinsurance, are distributed through approximately 360 wholesale general agents, 2,400 retail agents, and 20,000 direct-to-consumer policies. One agent provided 10.1% of Penn-America’s gross written premiums. No other agent accounted for more than 10% of gross written premiums within the Penn-America segment for the year ended December 31, 2023.

 

Penn-America’s assumed reinsurance treaties were acquired through 5 brokers. None of these brokers accounted for 10% or more of Penn-America’s gross written premium or 10% or more of the Company’s consolidated revenues for the year ended December 31, 2023.

Technology Platform

 

Penn-America provides its agents with rate, quote and policy issuance systems to transact business. These systems allow the Company to maintain and easily change rates, policy terms & conditions, and underwriting guidelines for its products. Penn-America's agents can typically transact a piece of business in 20 minutes or less.

 

The technology platform captures key underwriting and rating elements. This enables the Company to perform profitability and predictive risk analytics. Proprietary automated reports, which monitor key business performance criteria, were developed by Penn-America’s underwriting team. They measure rate, retention, new business growth, and overall profitability. Analytics are performed over a multitude of dimensions such as geography, agent, class of business, policy limits, and coverages. Proprietary automated reports are also developed to monitor key attributes of risk exposures.

 

Pricing

 

Actuaries at Penn-America customize pricing for each product, contributing expertise in factors such as historical loss data, changes in rate levels over time, outputs from property catastrophe modeling, and individual risk and coverage attributes. Additionally, they draw valuable insights from industry data to refine pricing strategy. The company typically references actuarial loss costs provided by the Insurance Services Office as a baseline for pricing across most products. For certain products, proprietary rating methods, including the use of machine learning, advanced statistical analyses, competitor comparison, and refined analytical techniques for risk segmentation and pricing, may be employed when deemed suitable. Penn-America prioritizes writing business with the goal of achieving a satisfactory risk-adjusted rate of return.

Underwriting

 

Penn-America’s insurance products are primarily underwritten via specific binding authority in which the Company grants delegated underwriting authority to its wholesale general agents. The Company’s wholesale general agents, program administrators and retail agents contract to underwrite submissions received in accordance with the Company’s underwriting guidelines.

 

Approximately 90% of Penn-America’s policies are fully automated and are processed by the agents utilizing the Company’s technology platform to rate, quote and issue policies. The Company’s underwriters have defined levels of authority that vary based on experience and performance. Agents have no authority to change forms or underwriting rules and have very limited discretionary pricing authority. The Company and its agents perform additional loss control activities through inspection of insured properties. Premiums audits are performed on the Company’s casualty business rated on revenue and payroll exposure.

 

A comprehensive, regularly updated underwriting manual that specifically outlines risk eligibility which is developed based on the type of insured, nature of exposure and overall expected profitability is used for underwriting. This manual also outlines (a) rates, (b) underwriting guidelines, including but not limited to policy forms, terms and conditions, and (c) policy issuance instructions.

 

Training on the Company’s underwriting guidelines is done via in person agency visits, marketing calls, agency conferences, or webinars.

 

Risks that are not within the specific binding authority must be submitted to Penn-America’s underwriting personnel directly for underwriting review and approval or denial.

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The Company regularly monitors the underwriting quality of its wholesale general agents and retail agents through a disciplined system of controls, which includes one or more of the following:

automated system criteria edits and exception reports;
targeted policy reviews to measure adherence to the Company’s underwriting manual or letter of authority including: risk selection, underwriting compliance, policy issuance and pricing;
periodic on-site and virtual comprehensive audits to evaluate processes, controls, profitability and adherence to all aspects of the Company’s underwriting manual or letter of authority including: risk selection, underwriting compliance, policy issuance and pricing;
internal quarterly actuarial analysis of loss ratios produced by business underwritten by the Company’s wholesale general agents and retail agents; and
internal quarterly analysis of financial results, including premium growth and overall profitability of business produced by the Company’s wholesale general agents and retail agents.

 

Penn-America provides incentives to certain wholesale general agents and program administrators through profit commissions that are tied directly to producing profitable business.

Geographic Concentration

The following table sets forth the geographic distribution of Penn-America’s gross written premiums for the periods indicated:

 

 

 

For the Years Ended December 31,

 

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Amount

 

 

Percent

 

 

Amount

 

 

Percent

 

 

Amount

 

 

Percent

 

California

 

$

56,361

 

 

 

15.2

%

 

$

65,048

 

 

 

16.7

%

 

$

59,478

 

 

 

16.9

%

Florida

 

 

46,859

 

 

 

12.7

 

 

 

49,902

 

 

 

12.9

 

 

 

39,752

 

 

 

11.4

 

New York

 

 

38,812

 

 

 

10.5

 

 

 

45,409

 

 

 

11.7

 

 

 

39,036

 

 

 

11.2

 

Texas

 

 

34,413

 

 

 

9.3

 

 

 

36,448

 

 

 

9.4

 

 

 

35,068

 

 

 

10.0

 

Massachusetts

 

 

17,940

 

 

 

4.9

 

 

 

19,283

 

 

 

5.0

 

 

 

16,022

 

 

 

4.6

 

Louisiana

 

 

13,188

 

 

 

3.6

 

 

 

11,811

 

 

 

3.0

 

 

 

11,022

 

 

 

3.1

 

North Carolina

 

 

12,338

 

 

 

3.3

 

 

 

13,891

 

 

 

3.6

 

 

 

13,978

 

 

 

4.0

 

Pennsylvania

 

 

11,413

 

 

 

3.1

 

 

 

12,289

 

 

 

3.2

 

 

 

10,404

 

 

 

3.0

 

Illinois

 

 

11,386

 

 

 

3.1

 

 

 

11,042

 

 

 

2.8

 

 

 

9,628

 

 

 

2.8

 

New Jersey

 

 

11,189

 

 

 

3.0

 

 

 

11,935

 

 

 

3.1

 

 

 

10,394

 

 

 

3.0

 

Subtotal

 

 

253,899

 

 

 

68.7

 

 

 

277,058

 

 

 

71.4

 

 

 

244,782

 

 

 

70.0

 

All other states

 

 

101,886

 

 

 

27.5

 

 

 

105,445

 

 

 

27.2

 

 

 

102,330

 

 

 

29.2

 

Assumed Reinsurance

 

 

13,875

 

 

 

3.8

 

 

 

5,464

 

 

 

1.4

 

 

 

2,850

 

 

 

0.8

 

Total

 

$

369,660

 

 

 

100.0

%

 

$

387,967

 

 

 

100.0

%

 

$

349,962

 

 

 

100.0

%

 

NON-CORE OPERATIONS

 

The Company’s Non-Core Operations segment represents lines of business that have been de-emphasized or are no longer being written.

 

The two key activities of Non-Core Operations are managing transition service agreements related to the sales of the Company’s renewal rights and handling claims activity and loss reserves on de-emphasized and terminated business.

 

At the end of 2022, the Company ceased writing new business and non-renewed existing policies for its four brokerage divisions: Professional Liability, Excess Casualty, Environmental, and Middle Market Property. On August 8, 2022, the Company sold the renewal rights related to its Farm, Ranch & Stable business for policies written on or after August 8, 2022 to Everett Cash Mutual Insurance Company. On October 26, 2021, the Company sold the renewal rights related to its manufactured and dwelling homes business. In 2021, the Company decided to cease writing certain Property Brokerage business which was part of the Commercial Specialty segment (now known as Penn-America), as well as non-renewing several treaties within the prior Reinsurance Operations segment which are now included in Non-Core Operations.

 

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See Note 2 of the notes to consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for additional information on the sales of the Company’s renewal rights.

 

The manufactured home, dwelling, motorcycle, watercraft, certain homeowners products, and farm, ranch & equine business within Non-Core Operations operated primarily in the standard or admitted markets and were distributed through retail agents, wholesale general agents, and brokers. These insurance products were either underwritten via limited binding authority, specific binding authority, or by internal personnel. The Property Brokerage product within Non-Core Operations operated predominantly in the excess and surplus lines or non-admitted markets and were distributed through wholesale brokers and underwritten by the Company’s personnel and selected brokers with limited binding authority. The retrocessional reinsurance treaties within Non-Core Operations were distributed through brokers and on a direct basis.

Information technology development initiatives related to business lines within Non-Core Operations have been discontinued.

Additional capital has and will become available as a result of de-emphasizing and exiting non-core business. This additional capital will support future growth in the Company's Penn-America segment and provide capital for business initiatives including share repurchases.

 

Geographic Concentration

 

The following table sets forth the geographic distribution of Non-Core Operations’ gross written premiums for the periods indicated:

 

 

 

For the Years Ended December 31,

 

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Amount

 

 

Percent

 

 

Amount

 

 

Percent

 

 

Amount

 

 

Percent

 

Arizona

 

$

2,264

 

 

 

4.9

%

 

$

20,134

 

 

 

5.9

%

 

$

20,141

 

 

 

6.1

%

Texas

 

 

460

 

 

 

1.0

 

 

 

13,530

 

 

 

4.0

 

 

 

17,773

 

 

 

5.4

 

Alabama

 

 

426

 

 

 

0.9

 

 

 

3,867

 

 

 

1.1

 

 

 

4,872

 

 

 

1.5

 

New York

 

 

382

 

 

 

0.8

 

 

 

9,144

 

 

 

2.7

 

 

 

11,381

 

 

 

3.4

 

Georgia

 

 

371

 

 

 

0.8

 

 

 

5,476

 

 

 

1.6

 

 

 

8,114

 

 

 

2.4

 

California

 

 

288

 

 

 

0.6

 

 

 

6,715

 

 

 

2.0

 

 

 

6,548

 

 

 

2.0

 

Colorado

 

 

89

 

 

 

0.2

 

 

 

3,594

 

 

 

1.1

 

 

 

4,476

 

 

 

1.3

 

Pennsylvania

 

 

73

 

 

 

0.2

 

 

 

2,768

 

 

 

0.8

 

 

 

3,931

 

 

 

1.2

 

Nevada

 

 

68

 

 

 

0.1

 

 

 

2,924

 

 

 

0.9

 

 

 

3,688

 

 

 

1.1

 

Massachusetts

 

 

66

 

 

 

0.1

 

 

 

3,537

 

 

 

1.0

 

 

 

3,648

 

 

 

1.1

 

Subtotal

 

 

4,487

 

 

 

9.6

 

 

 

71,689

 

 

 

21.1

 

 

 

84,572

 

 

 

25.5

 

All other states

 

 

242

 

 

 

0.5

 

 

 

109,236

 

 

 

32.2

 

 

 

143,898

 

 

 

43.3

 

Assumed Reinsurance

 

 

42,008

 

 

 

89.9

 

 

 

158,711

 

 

 

46.7

 

 

 

103,690

 

 

 

31.2

 

Total

 

$

46,737

 

 

 

100.0

%

 

$

339,636

 

 

 

100.0

%

 

$

332,160

 

 

 

100.0

%

 

Reinsurance of Underwriting Risk

The Company’s philosophy is to purchase reinsurance from third parties to limit its liability on individual risks and to protect against property catastrophe and casualty clash losses. Reinsurance assists the Company in controlling exposure to severe losses and protecting capital resources. The type, cost and limits of reinsurance it purchases can vary from year to year based upon the Company’s desired retention levels and the availability of quality reinsurance at an acceptable price. The Company purchases reinsurance based on guidelines established by management. Some of the Company’s reinsurance contracts renew on an annual basis. Although reinsurance does not legally discharge an insurer from its primary liability for the full amount of limits on the policies it has written, it does make the assuming reinsurer liable to the insurer to the extent of the insurance ceded. The Company primarily utilizes treaty reinsurance products made up of proportional and excess of loss reinsurance. Additionally, the Company may purchase facultative reinsurance protection on single risks when deemed necessary.

The Company purchases specific types and structures of reinsurance depending upon the characteristics of the lines of business and specialty products underwritten. The Company will typically seek to place proportional reinsurance for umbrella and excess products, certain specialty products, or new products in the development stage. The Company believes that this approach allows it to control net exposure in these product areas most cost effectively.

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The Company purchases reinsurance on an excess of loss basis to cover individual risk severity. These structures are utilized to protect the Company’s primary positions on property and casualty products. The excess of loss structures allow the Company to maximize underwriting profits over time by retaining its desired amount of risk in each product written while helping to protect against the possibility of unforeseen volatility.

The Company analyzes its reinsurance contracts to ensure that they meet the risk transfer requirements of applicable accounting guidance, which requires that the reinsurer must assume significant insurance risk under the reinsured portions of the underlying insurance contracts and that there must be a reasonably possible chance that the reinsurer may realize a significant loss from the transaction.

The Company continually evaluates its retention levels across its entire line of business and specialty product portfolio seeking to ensure that the ultimate reinsurance structures are aligned with the Company’s corporate risk tolerance levels associated with such products. Any decision to decrease the Company’s reliance upon proportional reinsurance or to increase the Company’s excess of loss retentions could increase the Company’s earnings volatility. In cases where the Company decides to increase its excess of loss retentions, such decisions will be a result of a change or progression in the Company’s risk tolerance level. The Company endeavors to purchase reinsurance from financially strong reinsurers with which it has long-standing relationships. In addition, in certain circumstances, the Company holds collateral, including letters of credit, under reinsurance agreements.

The Company’s material reinsurance treaties are as follows:

 

Property Catastrophe Excess of Loss – The Company’s current property writings create exposure to catastrophic events. To protect against these exposures, the Company purchases a property catastrophe treaty. Effective June 1, 2023, the Company purchased two layers of occurrence coverage for losses of $50 million in excess of $25 million. The first layer provides coverage of 100% of $25 million in excess of $25 million and can be reinstated once at no additional charge. The second layer provides coverage of $25 million in excess of $50 million and can be reinstated once at no additional charge. This replaced the treaty that was effective June 1, 2022, where the Company purchased three layers of occurrence coverage for losses of $115 million in excess of $10 million. The first layer provided coverage of 40% of $10 million in excess of $10 million and could be reinstated once at no additional charge. The second layer provided coverage of $30 million in excess of $20 million and could be reinstated once for an additional charge. The third layer provided coverage of $75 million in excess of $50 million and could be reinstated once for an additional charge.

 

Property Per Risk Excess of Loss – Effective January 1, 2024, the Company renewed its property per risk excess of loss treaty. For property risks excluding cannabis property risks, this treaty provides coverage of 100% of $2.5 million per risk in excess of $2.5 million per risk and 85% of $5.0 million per risk in excess of $5.0 million per risk for the entire Company. For cannabis property risks, this treaty provides coverage of 70% of $2.5 million per risk in excess of $2.5 million per risk and 55% of $5.0 million per risk in excess of $5.0 million per risk This replaced the property treaty which expired December 31, 2023 which provided coverage of 50% of $7.5 million per risk in excess of $2.5 million per risk for the entire Company and a cannabis quota share property treaty which ceded 65.45% of losses from $0 to $11 million per occurrence.

 

Casualty Excess of Loss – Effective December 31, 2023, the Company terminated the casualty excess of loss treaty. The contract was on a continuous basis. Effective January 1, 2024, the Company purchased a new treaty to provide coverage of 80% of $10 million per occurrence in excess of $2.5 million per occurrence for casualty lines of business. The treaty is subject to an aggregate limit of $20 million.

 

Amended & Restated Reinsurance Agreement – Effective October 26, 2021, the company entered into an agreement to cede 100% of its underwriting results related to certain specialty property business.

 

Reinsurance Agreement – Effective August 8th, 2022, the company entered into an agreement to cede 100% of its underwriting results related to certain agricultural business.

To the extent that there may be an increase or decrease in catastrophe or casualty clash exposure in the future, the Company may increase or decrease its reinsurance protection for these exposures commensurately. There were no other significant changes to any of the Company’s reinsurance treaties during 2023.

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The following table sets forth the ten reinsurers for which the Company has the largest reinsurance receivables as of December 31, 2023. Also shown are the amounts of premiums ceded by the Company to these reinsurers during the year ended December 31, 2023.

 

(Dollars in millions)

 

AM
Best
Rating

 

Gross
Reinsurance
Receivables

 

 

Percent
of Total

 

 

Ceded
Premiums
Written

 

 

Percent
of Total

 

Munich Re America Corp.

 

A+

 

$

41.2

 

 

 

46.1

%

 

$

2.1

 

 

 

12.3

%

General Reinsurance Corp.

 

A++

 

 

9.6

 

 

 

10.7

 

 

 

0.8

 

 

 

4.7

 

Swiss Reinsurance America Corp.

 

A+

 

 

5.8

 

 

 

6.5

 

 

 

1.4

 

 

 

8.1

 

Factory Mutual Insurance Company

 

A+

 

 

4.4

 

 

 

4.9

 

 

 

1.3

 

 

 

7.6

 

Allianz Risk Transfer

 

A+

 

 

4.2

 

 

 

4.7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Westport Insurance Corporation

 

A+

 

 

3.0

 

 

 

3.4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clearwater Insurance Company

 

NR

 

 

2.6

 

 

 

2.9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Argo Re, Ltd

 

A

 

 

2.2

 

 

 

2.5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scor Reinsurance Company

 

A

 

 

1.7

 

 

 

1.9

 

 

 

0.2

 

 

 

1.2

 

Hannover Rück SE

 

A+

 

 

1.7

 

 

 

1.9

 

 

 

2.5

 

 

 

14.6

 

Subtotal

 

 

 

$

76.4

 

 

 

85.5

%

 

$

8.3

 

 

 

48.5

%

All other reinsurers

 

 

 

 

13.0

 

 

 

14.5

 

 

 

8.8

 

 

 

51.5

 

Total reinsurance receivables before allowance for expected credit losses

 

 

 

$

89.4

 

 

 

100.0

%

 

$

17.1

 

 

 

100.0

%

Allowance for expected credit losses

 

 

 

 

(9.0

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total receivables, net of allowance for expected credit losses

 

 

 

 

80.4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Collateral held in trust from reinsurers

 

 

 

 

(8.8

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net receivables

 

 

 

$

71.6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At December 31, 2023, the Company carried reinsurance receivables, net of collateral held in trust, of $71.6 million. This amount is net of an allowance for expected credit losses of $9.0 million at December 31, 2023.

Historically, there have been insolvencies following a period of competitive pricing in the industry. While the Company has recorded allowances for expected credit losses for reinsurance receivables based on relevant information about past events including historical experience, currently available information, and supportable forecasts that affect the collectability, conditions may change or additional information might be obtained that may require the Company to record additional allowances. On a quarterly basis, the Company reviews its financial exposure to the reinsurance market and assesses the adequacy of its collateral and allowance for expected credit losses. The Company continues to take actions to mitigate its exposure to possible loss.

Claims Management and Administration

The Company’s approach to claims management is designed to investigate reported incidents at the earliest juncture, to select, manage, and supervise all legal and adjustment aspects of claims, including settlement, for the mutual benefit of the Company, its professional general agents, wholesale brokers, reinsurers and insureds. The Company’s professional general agents and wholesale brokers have no authority to settle claims or otherwise exercise control over the claims process. The claims management staff supervises or processes all claims. The Company has a formal claims review process, and all claims greater than $250,000 are reviewed by senior claims management and certain senior executives. Large loss trends and analysis are reviewed by a Large Loss committee.

 

To handle claims, the Company utilizes its own in-house claims department as well as third-party assuming reinsurers, to whom it delegates limited claims handling authority. The experienced in-house staff of claims management professionals are assigned to one of four dedicated claim units: casualty, property, subrogation, and construction defect. In-house claims management professionals are responsible for coverage confirmation, investigation, customer service, claims adjustment, and disposition and use a network of Company-approved independent adjusters and attorneys to assist in the adjustment process.

 

Approximately 92% of claims are handled by in-house claims management professionals and approximately 8% are handled by the Company’s assuming reinsurers. The Company reviews and supervises the claims handled by its reinsurers seeking to protect its reputation and minimize exposure.

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Reserves for Unpaid Losses and Loss Adjustment Expenses

Applicable insurance laws require the Company to maintain reserves to cover its estimated ultimate losses under insurance policies and reinsurance treaties that it writes and for loss adjustment expenses relating to the investigation and settlement of claims.

The Company establishes losses and loss adjustment expense reserves for individual claims by evaluating reported claims on the basis of:

knowledge of the circumstances surrounding the claim;
the severity of injury or damage;
jurisdiction of the occurrence;
the potential for ultimate exposure;
litigation related developments;
the type of loss; and
the Company’s experience with the insured and the line of business and policy provisions relating to the particular type of claim.

 

The Company generally estimates such losses and claims costs through an evaluation of individual reported claims. The Company also establishes reserves for incurred but not reported losses (“IBNR”). The Company’s IBNR reserves include provisions for development on known cases as well as provisions for claims that have occurred but not been reported. IBNR reserves are based on the Company's historical statistical information with respect to the expected number and nature of claims arising from occurrences that have not been reported, supplemented with industry experience when deemed appropriate. The Company also establishes its reserves based on estimates of future trends in claims severity and other subjective factors. Insurance companies are not permitted to reserve for a catastrophe until it has occurred. Reserves are recorded on an undiscounted basis other than fair value adjustments recorded under purchase accounting. The Company’s reserves are reviewed quarterly by the in-house actuarial staff; however, management is responsible for the final determination of loss reserve selections. Reserve reviews for Insurance Operations are summarized on both a gross and net of reinsurance basis.

 

In addition to the Company’s internal reserve analysis, independent external actuaries perform a full, detailed review of the reserves annually. The Company does not rely upon the review by the independent actuaries to develop its reserves; however, the review is used to corroborate the analysis performed by the in-house actuarial staff. The results of the detailed reserve reviews by internal and external actuaries are summarized and discussed with the Company’s senior management to determine Management's best estimate of reserves.

 

With respect to some classes of risks, the period of time between the occurrence of an insured event and the final resolution of a claim may be many years, and during this period it often becomes necessary to adjust the claim estimates either upward or downward. Certain classes of umbrella and excess liability that the Company underwrites have historically had longer intervals between the occurrence of an insured event, reporting of the claim, and final resolution. In such cases, the Company must estimate reserves over long periods of time with the possibility of several adjustments to reserves. Other classes of insurance that the Company underwrites, such as most property insurance, historically have shorter intervals between the occurrence of an insured event, reporting of the claim, and final resolution. Reserves with respect to these classes are therefore inherently less likely to be adjusted.

The losses and loss adjustment expense reserving process is intended to reflect the impact of inflation and other factors affecting loss payments by taking into account changes in historical payment patterns and perceived trends. However, there is no precise method for the subsequent evaluation of the adequacy of the consideration given to inflation, or to any other specific factor, or to the way one factor may affect another.

See the notes to consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for a reconciliation of the Company’s liability for losses and loss adjustment expenses, net of reinsurance ceded, as well as further discussion surrounding changes to reserves for prior accident years.

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Asbestos and Environmental (“A&E”) Exposure

The Company’s environmental exposure arises from the sale of general liability and commercial multi-peril insurance. Currently, the Company’s policies continue to exclude classic environmental contamination claims. However, in some states, the Company is required, depending on the circumstances, to provide coverage for certain bodily injury claims, such as an individual's exposure to a release of chemicals. The Company has also issued policies that were intended to provide limited pollution and environmental coverage. These policies were specific to certain types of products underwritten by the Company. The Company has also received a number of asbestos-related claims, the majority of which are declined based on well-established exclusions. In establishing the liability for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses related to A&E exposures, management considers facts currently known and the current state of the law and coverage litigations. Estimates of these liabilities are reviewed and updated continually.

 

Uncertainty remains as to the Company’s ultimate liability for asbestos-related claims due to such factors as the long latency period between asbestos exposure and disease manifestation and the resulting potential for involvement of multiple policy periods for individual claims. Other emerging mass torts with long latency periods also contribute to the uncertainty in the estimated ultimate environmental liability.

The liability for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses, inclusive of A&E reserves, reflects Management’s best estimates for future amounts needed to pay losses and related loss adjustment expenses as of each of the balance sheet dates reflected in the financial statements herein in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP"). As of December 31, 2023, the Company had $10.7 million of net loss reserves for asbestos-related claims and $10.4 million for environmental claims. The Company attempts to estimate the full impact of the A&E exposures by establishing specific case reserves on all known losses. See Note 12 of the notes to the consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for tables showing the Company’s gross and net reserves for A&E losses.

In addition to the factors referenced above, establishing reserves for A&E and other mass tort claims involves considerably more judgment than other types of claims due to factors including, but not limited to, inconsistent court decisions, an increase in bankruptcy filings as a result of asbestos-related liabilities, and judicial interpretations that often expand theories of recovery and broaden the scope of coverage.

See Note 12 of the notes to the consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for the survival ratios on a gross and net basis for the Company’s A&E claims.

Investments

 

The Company’s investment policy is determined by the Investment Committee of the Board of Directors. The Company engages third-party investment advisors to oversee and manage its investments and to make recommendations to the Investment Committee. The Company projects its cash flows from investments and operations to assure it has adequate liquidity to run its business. The Company’s investment policy allows it to invest in taxable and tax-exempt fixed income investments including corporate bonds as well as publicly traded equities and private equity and private debt investments. The insurance group holds $1,232.2 million of investments, of which, are comprised of 98.7% of fixed income and 1.3% of preferred stock. To provide diversification, the Company limits exposure to individual issuers. With respect to fixed income investments, the maximum exposure per issuer varies as a function of the credit quality of the security. The allocation between taxable and tax-exempt bonds is determined based on market conditions and tax considerations. As of December 31, 2023, the Company had $1,386.6 million of investments and cash and cash equivalent assets, including $16.5 million of preferred stock, and $38.2 million of limited partnership investments.

Insurance company investments must comply with applicable statutory regulations that prescribe the type, quality, and concentration of investments. These regulations permit investments, within specified limits and subject to certain qualifications, in federal, state, and municipal obligations, corporate bonds, and preferred and common equity securities.

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The following table summarizes by type the estimated fair value of Global Indemnity’s investments and cash and cash equivalents as of December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021:

 

 

 

December 31, 2023

 

 

December 31, 2022

 

 

December 31, 2021

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Estimated
Fair Value

 

 

Percent
of Total

 

 

Estimated
Fair Value

 

 

Percent
of Total

 

 

Estimated
Fair Value

 

 

Percent
of Total

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

$

38,037

 

 

 

2.7

%

 

$

38,846

 

 

 

2.9

%

 

$

78,278

 

 

 

5.1

%

U.S. treasuries

 

 

494,223

 

 

 

35.6

 

 

 

344,103

 

 

 

25.6

 

 

 

150,118

 

 

 

9.8

 

Agency obligations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5,630

 

 

 

0.4

 

Obligations of states and political subdivisions

 

 

26,150

 

 

 

1.9

 

 

 

31,595

 

 

 

2.4

 

 

 

54,721

 

 

 

3.6

 

Mortgage-backed securities (1)

 

 

58,927

 

 

 

4.3

 

 

 

62,116

 

 

 

4.6

 

 

 

250,341

 

 

 

16.3

 

Asset-backed securities

 

 

202,952

 

 

 

14.6

 

 

 

189,400

 

 

 

14.1

 

 

 

172,642

 

 

 

11.3

 

Commercial mortgage-backed securities

 

 

79,080

 

 

 

5.7

 

 

 

98,664

 

 

 

7.3

 

 

 

136,893

 

 

 

8.9

 

Corporate bonds

 

 

291,713

 

 

 

21.0

 

 

 

338,780

 

 

 

25.3

 

 

 

292,383

 

 

 

19.0

 

Foreign corporate bonds

 

 

140,748

 

 

 

10.2

 

 

 

183,540

 

 

 

13.7

 

 

 

139,138

 

 

 

9.1

 

Total fixed maturities

 

 

1,293,793

 

 

 

93.3

 

 

 

1,248,198

 

 

 

93.0

 

 

 

1,201,866

 

 

 

78.4

 

Equity securities

 

 

16,508

 

 

 

1.2

 

 

 

17,520

 

 

 

1.3

 

 

 

99,978

 

 

 

6.5

 

Other invested assets

 

 

38,236

 

 

 

2.8

 

 

 

38,176

 

 

 

2.8

 

 

 

152,651

 

 

 

10.0

 

Total investments and cash and cash equivalents (2)

 

$

1,386,574

 

 

 

100.0

%

 

$

1,342,740

 

 

 

100.0

%

 

$

1,532,773

 

 

 

100.0

%

 

(1)
Includes collateralized mortgage obligations of $56,186, $58,773, and $101,698 for 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively.
(2)
Does not include net receivable (payable) for securities sold (purchased) of $3,858, ($66), and ($794) for 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively.

 

The Company does not acquire fixed maturities with the intention to sell these securities in a short period of time. The Company can hold fixed maturities to recovery and/or maturity; however, the Company regularly re-evaluates its positions and will sell a security if warranted by market conditions.

The overall weighted average duration of the Company’s fixed maturities portfolio was 1.1 years as of December 31, 2023 compared to 1.7 years at December 31, 2022. Duration was lowered in response to rising interest rates. The Company’s fixed maturities, excluding the asset-backed, mortgage-backed, commercial mortgage-backed and collateralized mortgage obligations, had a weighted average maturity of 1.4 years and a weighted average duration, including cash and short-term investments, of 0.9 years as of December 31, 2023. The weighted average duration of the Company’s asset-backed, mortgage-backed and commercial mortgage-backed securities was 1.8 years as of December 31, 2023. At December 31, 2023, the Company’s embedded book yield on its fixed maturities, not including cash, was 4.0% compared with 3.5% at December 31, 2022.

The Company’s financial statements reflect a net unrealized loss on fixed maturities available for sale as of December 31, 2023 of $28.3 million on a pre-tax basis.

The following table shows the average amount of fixed maturities, income earned on fixed maturities, and the book yield thereon, as well as unrealized gain (loss) for the periods indicated:

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Average fixed maturities at book value

 

$

1,311,908

 

 

$

1,247,735

 

 

$

1,171,378

 

Gross income on fixed maturities (1)

 

$

49,987

 

 

$

33,852

 

 

$

25,751

 

Book yield

 

 

3.81

%

 

 

2.71

%

 

 

2.20

%

Fixed maturities at book value

 

$

1,322,092

 

 

$

1,301,723

 

 

$

1,193,746

 

Unrealized gain (loss)

 

$

(28,299

)

 

$

(53,525

)

 

$

8,120

 

 

(1)
Represents income earned by fixed maturities, gross of investment expenses and excluding realized gains and losses.

The Company has sought to structure its portfolio to reduce the risk of default on collateralized commercial real estate obligations and asset-backed securities. Of the $58.9 million of mortgage-backed securities, $2.7 million is invested in U.S. agency paper and $56.2 million is invested in collateralized mortgage obligations, of which $30.5 million, or 54.4%, are rated AA- or better. In addition, the Company holds $203.0 million in asset-backed securities, of which 82.2% are rated A- or better and $79.1 million in commercial mortgaged-backed securities, of which 83.0% are rated AA or better. The weighted

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average credit enhancement for the Company’s asset-backed securities is 36.1. The Company also faces liquidity risk. Liquidity risk is when the fair value of an investment is not able to be realized due to lack of interest by outside parties in the marketplace. The Company attempts to diversify its investment holdings to minimize this risk. The Company’s investment managers run periodic analysis of liquidity costs to the fixed income portfolio. The Company also faces credit risk. 93.6% of the Company’s fixed income securities are investment grade securities. 25.9% of the Company’s fixed maturities are rated AAA. See “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk” in Item 7A of Part II of this report for a more detailed discussion of the credit market and the Company’s investment strategy.

The following table summarizes, by Standard & Poor's rating classifications, the estimated fair value of Global Indemnity’s investments in fixed maturities, as of December 31, 2023 and 2022:

 

 

 

December 31, 2023

 

 

December 31, 2022

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Estimated
Fair Value

 

 

Percent
of Total

 

 

Estimated
Fair Value

 

 

Percent
of Total

 

AAA

 

$

335,381

 

 

 

25.9

%

 

$

182,063

 

 

 

14.6

%

AA

 

 

391,983

 

 

 

30.3

 

 

 

442,731

 

 

 

35.4

 

A

 

 

257,714

 

 

 

19.9

 

 

 

240,697

 

 

 

19.3

 

BBB

 

 

225,934

 

 

 

17.5

 

 

 

296,680

 

 

 

23.8

 

BB

 

 

14,537

 

 

 

1.1

 

 

 

22,057

 

 

 

1.8

 

B

 

 

1,592

 

 

 

0.1

 

 

 

1,466

 

 

 

0.1

 

CCC

 

 

4,020

 

 

 

0.3

 

 

 

4,804

 

 

 

0.4

 

CC

 

 

2,779

 

 

 

0.2

 

 

 

2,914

 

 

 

0.2

 

C

 

 

2,338

 

 

 

0.2

 

 

 

2,622

 

 

 

0.2

 

D

 

 

2,420

 

 

 

0.2

 

 

 

2,555

 

 

 

0.2

 

Not rated

 

 

55,095

 

 

 

4.3

 

 

 

49,609

 

 

 

4.0

 

Total fixed maturities

 

$

1,293,793

 

 

 

100.0

%

 

$

1,248,198

 

 

 

100.0

%

 

The following table sets forth the expected maturity distribution of the Company’s fixed maturities portfolio at their estimated market value as of December 31, 2023 and 2022:

 

 

 

December 31, 2023

 

 

December 31, 2022

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Estimated
Market Value

 

 

Percent
of Total

 

 

Estimated
Market Value

 

 

Percent
of Total

 

Due in one year or less

 

$

660,141

 

 

 

51.0

%

 

$

113,491

 

 

 

9.1

%

Due in one year through five years

 

 

270,667

 

 

 

20.9

 

 

 

747,197

 

 

 

59.8

 

Due in five years through ten years

 

 

11,619

 

 

 

0.9

 

 

 

25,594

 

 

 

2.1

 

Due after ten years

 

 

10,407

 

 

 

0.8

 

 

 

11,736

 

 

 

0.9

 

Securities with fixed maturities

 

 

952,834

 

 

 

73.6

 

 

 

898,018

 

 

 

71.9

 

Mortgaged-backed securities

 

 

58,927

 

 

 

4.6

 

 

 

62,116

 

 

 

5.0

 

Commercial mortgage-backed securities

 

 

79,080

 

 

 

6.1

 

 

 

98,664

 

 

 

7.9

 

Asset-backed securities

 

 

202,952

 

 

 

15.7

 

 

 

189,400

 

 

 

15.2

 

Total fixed maturities

 

$

1,293,793

 

 

 

100.0

%

 

$

1,248,198

 

 

 

100.0

%

 

The value of the Company’s portfolio of bonds is inversely related to changes in market interest rates. In addition, some of the Company’s bonds have call or prepayment options. This could subject the Company to reinvestment risk should interest rates fall and issuers call their securities and the Company is forced to invest the proceeds at lower interest rates. The Company seeks to mitigate its reinvestment risk by investing in securities with varied maturity dates, so that only a portion of the portfolio will mature, be called, or be prepaid at any point in time.

As of December 31, 2023, the Company had aggregate equity securities of $16.5 million that consisted of preferred stocks.

The Company’s investments in other invested assets is comprised of three limited partnerships. At December 31, 2023, a partnership that invests in stressed and distressed debt instruments was valued at $4.0 million, a partnership that invests in Real Estate Investment Trust (“REIT”) qualifying assets was valued at $8.2 million, and a partnership comprised of performing, stressed or distressed securities and loans across the global fixed income markets was valued at $26.0 million. The carrying value of these investments approximates fair value. There is no readily available independent market price for these limited liability partnership investments and the Company does not have access to daily valuations. The Company receives annual audited financial statements from each of the partnership investments it owns.

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Net realized investment gains (losses) were ($2.1) million, ($32.9) million, and $15.9 million for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively.

Competition

 

The Company competes with numerous domestic and international insurance companies, mutual companies, specialty insurance companies, underwriting agencies, diversified financial services companies, Lloyd's syndicates, risk retention groups, insurance buying groups, risk securitization products and alternative self-insurance mechanisms. In particular, the Company competes against insurance subsidiaries of the groups in the specialty insurance market noted below, insurance companies, and others, including:

 

American International Group
Ategrity Specialty Holdings LLC
Atlantic Casualty Insurance Company
Berkshire Hathaway
CapSpecialty Insurance Group
Chubb Limited
IFG Companies
James River Group Holdings
Kinsale Capital Group, Inc.
Markel Corporation
Nationwide Insurance
RLI Corporation
RSUI Group
Selective Insurance Group, Inc.
The Hartford
The Travelers Companies, Inc.
W.R. Berkley Corporation

In addition to the companies mentioned above, the Company is facing competition from standard line companies who are continuing to write risks that traditionally had been written by excess and surplus lines carriers, Bermuda companies who are establishing relationships with wholesale brokers and purchasing carriers, and other excess and surplus lines competitors.

Competition may take the form of lower prices, broader coverage, greater product flexibility, higher quality services, reputation and financial strength or higher ratings by independent rating agencies. In all of the Company’s markets, it competes by developing insurance products to satisfy well-defined market needs and by maintaining relationships with wholesale agents and insureds that rely on the Company’s expertise. The Company differentiates itself from the competition by distributing products that are not readily available in the market. Each of the Company’s products has its own distinct competitive environment. The Company seeks to compete through innovative products, appropriate pricing, niche underwriting expertise, and quality service to policyholders and general agencies.

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Employees

 

The Company had approximately 266 employees at December 31, 2023 as compared with 355 employees at December 31, 2022. None of the Company’s employees are covered by collective bargaining agreements as of December 31, 2023. The Company focuses on attracting, developing and retaining a team of highly talented and motivated employees. The Company conducts regular assessments of its compensation and benefit practices and pay levels to help ensure that its employees are compensated fairly and competitively. The Company devotes resources to employee training and development. Individual objectives are set annually for each employee, and attainment of those objectives is an element of the employee’s performance assessment. The Company recognizes that its success is based on the talents and dedication of those it employs and is highly invested in its employees' success.

 

In the first quarter of 2023, the Company reduced its workforce by 54 employees in conjunction with the restructuring of its insurance operations. See Note 3 of the notes to the consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for additional information on the restructuring.

Ratings

AM Best has seven rating categories in the AM Best Financial Strength Rating Scale. The categories ranging from best to worst are Superior, Excellent, Good, Fair, Marginal, Weak, and Poor. Within each rating category, there are rating notches of plus or minus to show additional gradation of the ratings. AM Best currently assigns the Company’s insurance companies with a financial strength rating of "A" (Excellent).

Publications of AM Best indicate that "A" (Excellent) ratings are assigned to those companies that, in AM Best's opinion, have an excellent ability to meet their ongoing obligations to policyholders. To determine a credit rating, AM Best performs quantitative and qualitative analysis which includes evaluating balance sheet strength, operating performance, enterprise risk management, and the business profile. These ratings are based on factors relevant to policyholders, general agencies, insurance brokers and intermediaries and are not directed to the protection of investors.

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Regulation

General

 

The insurance industry is regulated in most countries, although the degree and type of regulation varies significantly from one jurisdiction to another. Global Indemnity's companies are all U.S. companies or have made elections to be taxed as a U.S. company.

U.S. Regulation

At December 31, 2023, the Company had five subsidiaries operating as insurance companies domiciled in the United States; United National Insurance Company, Penn-America Insurance Company, and Penn-Star Insurance Company, which are domiciled in Pennsylvania; Diamond State Insurance Company which is domiciled in Indiana; and Penn-Patriot Insurance Company, which is domiciled in Virginia.

As the parent of these insurance companies, Global Indemnity is subject to the insurance holding company laws of Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Virginia. These laws generally require each of the insurance companies to register with its respective domestic state insurance department and to annually furnish financial and other information about the operations of the companies within the insurance holding company system. Generally, all material transactions among affiliated companies in the holding company system to which any of the insurance companies is a party must be fair, and, if material or of a specified category, require prior notice and approval or absence of disapproval by the insurance department where the subsidiary is domiciled. Material transactions include sales, loans, contributions, reinsurance agreements, certain types of dividends, and service agreements with the non-insurance companies within Global Indemnity’s family of companies.

State Insurance Regulation

State insurance authorities have broad regulatory powers with respect to various aspects of the business of insurance companies, including, but not limited to, licensing companies to transact admitted business or determining eligibility to write surplus lines business, accreditation of reinsurers, admittance of assets to statutory surplus, regulating unfair trade and claims practices, establishing reserve requirements and solvency standards, management of enterprise risk, regulating investments and dividends, approving policy forms and related materials in certain instances and approving premium rates in certain instances. State insurance laws and regulations may require the Company’s insurance companies to file financial statements with insurance departments everywhere they will be licensed or eligible or accredited to conduct insurance business, and their operations are subject to review by those departments at any time. The Company’s insurance companies prepare statutory financial statements in accordance with statutory accounting principles ("SAP") and procedures prescribed or permitted by these departments. State insurance departments also conduct periodic examinations of the books and records, financial reporting, policy filings and market conduct of insurance companies domiciled in their states, generally once every three to five years, although market conduct examinations may take place at any time. These examinations are generally carried out in cooperation with the insurance departments of other states under guidelines promulgated by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”). In addition, admitted insurers are subject to targeted market conduct examinations involving specific insurers by state insurance regulators in any state in which the insurer is admitted. The insurance departments for the states of Indiana, Virginia, and Pennsylvania completed their most recent financial examinations of the Company’s insurance subsidiaries for the period ended December 31, 2022. No material adverse findings were reported to the Company. Their final reports are expected to be issued in 2024.

Before a person can acquire control of a U.S. insurance company, prior written approval must be obtained from the insurance commissioner of the state where the insurer is domiciled. Prior to granting approval of an application to acquire control of a domestic insurer, the state insurance commissioner will consider factors such as the financial strength of the applicant, the integrity and management of the applicant's board of directors and executive officers, the acquirer’s plans for the management, board of directors, executive officers, and employees of the company being acquired, the acquirer’s plans for the future operations of the domestic insurer and any anti-competitive results that may arise from the consummation of the acquisition of control. Generally, state statutes provide that control over a domestic insurer is presumed to exist if any person, directly or indirectly, owns, controls, holds with the power to vote, or holds proxies representing 10% or more of the voting securities of the domestic insurer. Because a person acquiring 10% or more of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares would indirectly control the same percentage of the stock of the insurance companies, the insurance change of control laws of Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Virginia would likely apply to such a transaction.

These laws may discourage potential acquisition proposals and may delay, deter or prevent a change of control of Global Indemnity Group, LLC, including through transactions, and in particular unsolicited transactions, that some or all of the shareholders of Global Indemnity Group, LLC might consider desirable.

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Insurance Regulatory Information System Ratios

The NAIC Insurance Regulatory Information System ("IRIS") was developed by a committee of the state insurance regulators and is intended primarily to assist state insurance departments in executing their statutory mandates to oversee the financial condition of insurance companies operating in their respective states. IRIS identifies thirteen industry ratios and specifies "usual values" for each ratio. Departure from the usual values of the ratios can lead to inquiries from individual state insurance commissioners that require the insurer to describe certain aspects of a business that are causing such departures. It is not uncommon for companies to have ratios that fall outside of these usual values. Although the Company’s insurance subsidiaries have departures from usual values of certain IRIS ratios, the Company believes that its insurance subsidiaries have adequate capital and liquidity to meet their operational needs.

The Company’s insurance subsidiaries' departures from usual values of certain IRIS ratios are as follows:

Investment yields were lower than the IRIS range for Penn-Patriot Insurance Company and Penn-America Insurance Company. A high percentage of invested assets for both companies consisted of wholly-owned subsidiaries which did not distribute dividends to either Penn-Patriot Insurance Company or Penn-America Insurance Company in 2023.

Risk-Based Capital Regulations

The state insurance departments of Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Virginia require that each domestic insurer report its risk-based capital based on a formula calculated by applying factors to various asset, premium and reserve items. The formula takes into account the risk characteristics of the insurer, including asset risk, insurance risk, interest rate risk and business risk. The respective state insurance regulators use the formula as an early warning regulatory tool to identify possible inadequately capitalized insurers for purposes of initiating regulatory action, and generally not as a means to rank insurers. State insurance laws impose broad confidentiality requirements on those engaged in insurance (including insurers, general agencies, brokers and others) and on state insurance departments as to the use and publication of risk-based capital data. The respective state insurance regulators have explicit regulatory authority to require various actions by, or to take various actions against, insurers whose total adjusted capital does not exceed certain company action level risk-based capital levels.

Based on the standards currently adopted, the insurance companies reported in their 2023 statutory filings that their capital and surplus are above the prescribed risk-based capital requirements. See Note 21 of the notes to the consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for additional information on the NAIC's risk-based capital model for determining the levels of statutory capital and surplus an insurer must maintain.

Statutory Accounting Principles (“SAP”)

SAP is a basis of accounting developed to assist insurance regulators in monitoring and regulating the solvency of insurance companies. SAP is primarily concerned with measuring an insurer's surplus. Accordingly, statutory accounting focuses on valuing assets and liabilities of insurers at financial reporting dates in accordance with appropriate insurance laws, regulatory provisions, and practices prescribed or permitted by each insurer's domiciliary state.

GAAP is concerned with a company's solvency, but it is also concerned with other financial measurements, such as matching revenues and expenses, income, and cash flows. As a direct result, different line item groupings of assets and liabilities and different amounts of assets and liabilities are reflected in financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP than financial statements prepared in accordance with SAP.

Statutory accounting practices established by the NAIC and adopted in part by the Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Virginia regulators determine, among other things, the amount of statutory surplus and statutory net income (loss) of the insurance companies and thus determine, in part, the amount of funds these subsidiaries have available to pay dividends.

State Dividend Limitations

The insurance companies are restricted by statute as to the amount of dividends that they may pay without the prior approval of the applicable state regulatory authorities. Dividends may be paid without advanced regulatory approval only out of unassigned surplus. The dividend limitations imposed by the applicable state laws are based on the statutory financial results of each company within the Insurance Operations that are determined using statutory accounting practices that differ in various respects from accounting principles used in financial statements prepared in conformity with GAAP. See “Regulation – Statutory Accounting Principles.” Key differences relate to, among other items, deferred acquisition costs, limitations on deferred income taxes, reserve calculation assumptions and surplus notes, if any.

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See the “Liquidity and Capital Resources” section in Item 7 of Part II of this report for a more complete description of the state dividend limitations. See Note 21 of the notes to consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for the maximum amount of distributions that the Company’s insurance companies could pay as dividends in 2024.

Guaranty Associations and Similar Arrangements

Most of the jurisdictions in which the insurance companies are admitted to transact business require property and casualty insurers doing business within that jurisdiction to participate in guaranty associations. These associations are organized to pay contractual benefits owed pursuant to insurance policies issued by impaired, insolvent or failed insurers. These associations levy assessments, up to prescribed limits, on all member insurers in a particular state on the basis of the proportionate share of the premiums written by member insurers in the lines of business in which the impaired, insolvent, or failed insurer is engaged. Some states permit member insurers to recover assessments paid through full or partial premium tax offsets or in limited circumstances by surcharging policyholders.

Federal Insurance Regulation

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Dodd-Frank Act”) includes a number of provisions having a direct impact on the insurance industry, most notably, streamlining of surplus lines insurance, credit for reinsurance, and systemic risk regulation. With respect to surplus lines insurance, the Dodd-Frank Act gives exclusive authority to regulate surplus lines transactions to the home state of the insured, and the requirement that a surplus lines broker must first attempt to place coverage in the admitted market is substantially softened with respect to large commercial policyholders. Significantly, the Dodd-Frank Act provides that a state may not prevent a surplus lines broker from placing surplus lines insurance with a non-U.S. insurer that appears on the quarterly listing of non-admitted insurers maintained by the International Insurers Department of the NAIC. Regarding credit for reinsurance, the Dodd-Frank Act generally provides that the state of domicile of the ceding company (and no other state) may regulate financial statement credit for the ceded risk. The Dodd-Frank Act also provides the U.S. Federal Reserve with supervisory authority over insurance companies that are deemed to be “systemically important.” The Company continues to monitor federal insurance regulations and any changes thereto that may impact operations.

Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity

 

The Company is subject to numerous U.S. federal and state laws governing the protection of personal and confidential information. These laws and regulations are increasing in complexity, and the requirements are extensive and detailed. Numerous states require the Company to certify its compliance with their data protection laws. Some examples of privacy, data protection and cybersecurity laws and regulations include:

 

The New York Department of Financial Services' (“NYDFS”) Cybersecurity Regulation which mandates detailed cybersecurity standards for all institutions, including insurance entities, authorized by the NYDFS to operate in New York. Among the requirements are the maintenance of a cybersecurity program with governance controls, risk-based minimum data security standards for technology systems, cyber breach preparedness and response requirements, including reporting obligations, vendor oversight, training, program record keeping, and certification obligations.

 

The NAIC adopted an Insurance Data Security Model Law, which requires licensed insurance entities to comply with detailed information security requirements. The NAIC model law is similar in many respects to the NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation.

 

The California Consumer Privacy Act, which took effect in January 2020, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, which took effect in January 2023, adopted significant compliance requirements for companies doing business in California. Among other things, the California Privacy Rights Act expanded consumer privacy rights and established a new privacy regulatory agency.

Available Information

The Company maintains a website at www.gbli.com. The information on the Company’s website is not incorporated herein by reference. The Company will make available, free of charge on its website, the most recent annual report on Form 10-K and subsequently filed quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as soon as reasonably practicable after the Company files such material with, or furnishes it to, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).

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The public may also read and copy any materials the Company files with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission at the SEC's Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, NE, Washington, DC 20549 or by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. The SEC maintains, free of charge, an Internet site (www.sec.gov) that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC.

Item 1A. RISK FACTORS

The risks and uncertainties described below are those the Company believes to be material. If any of the following actually occur, the Company’s business, prospects, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows could be materially and adversely affected.

Risks Related to the Company’s Business

Restructuring of insurance operations may not yield the expected benefits.

The ability to execute the Company’s restructuring initiative is subject to significant challenges, uncertainties, and risks. The restructuring initiative may not produce the anticipated benefits and may result in unintended consequences which could have a material adverse impact on the Company’s financial condition and results of operations. The restructuring initiative could result in an unexpected loss of key personnel. This could have a material adverse impact on the Company’s business due to the loss of skill, knowledge of the Company’s product offerings, years of industry experience, and in some cases, the difficulty of promptly finding qualified replacement personnel. In addition, the restructuring could harm the Company’s relationships with its agents or it may not be able to execute its strategies as efficiently as before the restructuring.

The Company may not be able to effectively start up or integrate new product opportunities.

The Company's ability to grow the business depends, in part, on the creation, implementation or acquisition of new insurance products that are profitable and fit within the Company's business model. The Company's ability to grow profitably requires the identification of market opportunities, which may include acquisitions, and the ability to attract and retain underwriting and claims expertise to support that growth. New product launches, as well as resources to integrate business acquisitions, are subject to many obstacles, including ensuring the Company has sufficient business and systems processes, determining appropriate pricing, obtaining reinsurance, assessing opportunity costs and regulatory burdens, and planning for internal infrastructure needs. The Company's ability to grow profitably could be impaired if it cannot effectively overcome these obstacles or it improperly implement new insurance products.

If actual claims payments exceed the Company’s reserves for losses and loss adjustment expenses, the Company’s financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected.

The Company’s success depends upon its ability to accurately assess the risks associated with the insurance and reinsurance policies that it writes. The Company establishes reserves on an undiscounted basis to cover its estimated liability for the payment of all losses and loss adjustment expenses incurred with respect to premiums earned on the insurance policies that it writes. Reserves do not represent an exact calculation of liability. Rather, reserves are estimates of what the Company expects to be the ultimate cost of resolution and administration of claims under the insurance policies that it writes. These estimates are based upon actuarial and statistical projections, the Company’s assessment of currently available data, as well as estimates and assumptions as to future trends in claims severity and frequency, judicial theories of liability and other factors. The Company continually refines its reserve estimates in an ongoing process as experience develops and claims are reported and settled.

Establishing an appropriate level of reserves is an inherently uncertain process. The following factors may have a substantial impact on the Company’s future actual losses and loss adjustment experience:

claim and expense payments;
frequency and severity of claims;
legislative and judicial developments; and
changes in economic conditions, including the effect of inflation.

For example, as industry practices and legal, judicial, social and other conditions change, unexpected and unintended exposures related to claims and coverage may emerge. These exposures may either extend coverage beyond the Company’s

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underwriting intent or increase the frequency or severity of claims. As a result, such developments could cause the Company’s level of reserves to be inadequate.

Actual losses and loss adjustment expenses the Company incurs under insurance policies that it writes may be different from the amount of reserves it establishes, and to the extent that actual losses and loss adjustment expenses exceed the Company’s expectations and the reserves reflected on its financial statements, the Company will be required to immediately reflect those changes by increasing its reserves. In addition, regulators could require that the Company increase its reserves if they determine that the reserves were understated in the past. When the Company increases reserves, pre-tax income for the period in which it does so will decrease by a corresponding amount. In addition to having an effect on reserves and pre-tax income, increasing or "strengthening" reserves causes a reduction in the Company’s insurance companies' surplus and could cause the rating of its insurance company subsidiaries to be downgraded or placed on credit watch. Such a downgrade could, in turn, adversely affect the Company’s ability to sell insurance policies.

The failure of any of the loss limitations or exclusions employed by the Company, or changes in other claims or coverage issues, could have a material adverse effect on the Company's financial condition or results of operations.

Although the Company seeks to mitigate its loss exposure through a variety of methods, the future is inherently unpredictable. It is difficult to predict the timing, frequency and severity of losses with statistical certainty. It is not possible to completely eliminate the Company's exposure to unforecasted or unpredictable events and, to the extent that losses from such risks occur, the Company's financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected.

For instance, various provisions within policies issued by the Company, such as limitations or exclusions from coverage or choice of forum, which have been negotiated to limit the Company's risks, may not be enforceable in the manner intended by the Company.

In addition, policy terms are designed to manage the Company's exposure to expanding theories of legal liability like those which have given rise to claims for lead paint asbestos, mold, construction defects and environmental matters. Many of the policies issued by the Company also include conditions requiring the prompt reporting of claims to the Company and entitle the Company to decline coverage in the event of a violation of those conditions. Also, many of the Company's policies limit the period during which a policyholder may bring a claim under the policy, which in many cases is shorter than the statutory period under which such claims can be brought against the Company's policyholders.

While these exclusions and limitations help the Company to assess and reduce its loss exposure and help eliminate known exposures to certain risks, it is possible that a court or regulatory authority could nullify or void an exclusion or legislation could be enacted modifying or barring the use of such endorsements and limitations. These types of governmental actions could result in higher than anticipated losses and loss adjustment expenses, which could have a material adverse effect on the Company's financial condition or results of operations.

As industry practices and legal, judicial, social and other environmental conditions change, unexpected and unintended issues related to claims and coverage may emerge. An example is court decisions that read policy exclusions narrowly so as to expand coverage, thereby requiring insurers to create and write new exclusions.

These issues may adversely affect the Company's business by either broadening coverage beyond its underwriting intent or by increasing the number or size of claims. In some instances, these changes may not become apparent until sometime after the Company has issued insurance contracts that are affected by the changes. As a result, the full extent of liability under the Company's insurance contracts may not be known for many years after a contract is issued.

 

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The occurrence of natural or man-made disasters could adversely affect the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations.

 

The Company is exposed to various risks arising out of natural disasters, including earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, floods, landslides, tornadoes, typhoons, tsunamis, hailstorms, explosions, climate events or weather patterns, public health crises such as illness, epidemics or pandemic health events, as well as man-made disasters, including acts of terrorism, military actions, cyber-terrorism, explosions and biological, chemical or radiological events. The continued threat of terrorism and ongoing military actions may cause significant volatility in global financial markets, and a natural or man-made disaster could trigger an economic downturn in the areas directly or indirectly affected by the disaster. These consequences could, among other things, result in a decline in business and increased claims from those areas. They could also result in reduced underwriting capacity making it more difficult for the Company’s agents to place business. In addition, there could be unanticipated problems with the Company’s disaster recovery processes, or a support failure from external providers, that could have an adverse effect on the Company’s ability to conduct business if a significant number of employees were unable to work in the event of a disaster. Disasters also could disrupt public and private infrastructure, including communications and financial services, which could disrupt the Company’s ordinary business operations.

 

A natural or man-made disaster could also disrupt the operations of the Company’s counterparties or result in increased prices for the products and services they provide to the Company. A natural or man-made disaster could increase the incidence or severity of E&O claims against the Company.

 

The Company may also experience disruptions to its business as a result of a pandemic and any associated protective or preventative measures including but not limited to:

clients choosing to limit purchases of insurance due to declining business conditions, which would inhibit the Company’s ability to generate earned premium;
travel restrictions and quarantines leading to a lack of in-person meetings, which would hinder the Company’s ability to establish relationships or originate new business;
cancellation, delays, or non-payment of premium could negatively impact the Company’s liquidity;
risk that legislation could be passed or there could be a court ruling which would require the Company to cover business interruption claims regardless of terms, exclusions or other conditions included in policies that would otherwise preclude coverage;
significant volatility in financial markets affecting the market value and liquidity of the Company’s investment portfolio.

 

As a result, it is possible that any, or a combination of all, of these factors related to natural or man-made disasters could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, financial condition, and results of operations.

 

A decline in rating for any of the Company’s insurance subsidiaries could adversely affect its position in the insurance market; making it more difficult to market its insurance products and cause premiums and earnings to decrease.

If the rating of any of the Company’s insurance companies is reduced from its current level of “A” (Excellent) by AM Best, the Company’s competitive position in the insurance industry could suffer, and it could be more difficult to market its insurance products. A downgrade could result in a significant reduction in the number of insurance contracts the Company writes and in a substantial loss of business; as such business could move to other competitors with higher ratings, thus causing premiums and earnings to decrease.

These ratings are not an evaluation of, nor are they directed to, investors in Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s class A common shares and are not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s class A common shares. Publications of AM Best indicate that companies are assigned "A" (Excellent) ratings if, in AM Best's opinion, they have an excellent ability to meet their ongoing obligations to policyholders. These ratings are subject to periodic review by, and may be revised downward or revoked at the sole discretion of AM Best.

 

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A failure in the Company’s operational systems or infrastructure or those of third parties, including security breaches or cyber-attacks, could disrupt the Company’s business, its reputation, and / or cause losses which would have a material effect on the Company’s business operations and financial results.

The Company’s business is dependent upon the secure processing, storage, and transmission of information over computer networks using applications, systems and other technologies. The business depends on effective information security and systems to perform accounting, policy administration, claims, underwriting, actuarial and all aspects of day-to-day operations necessary to service the Company’s customers and agents, to value the Company’s investments and to timely and accurately report the Company’s financial results.

The information systems the Company relies upon must ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability of the data, including systems maintained by the Company as well as data in and assets held through third-party service providers and systems. The Company employs various measures, systems, applications and software to address data security. The Company reviews its existing security measures and systems on a continuing basis through internal and independent evaluations. The Company has implemented administrative and technical controls and takes protective actions in an attempt to reduce the risk of cyber incidents.

The Company’s internal and external controls, processes, and the vendors used to protect networks, systems and applications, individually or together, may be insufficient to prevent a security incident. Employee or third-party vendor errors, malicious acts, unauthorized access, computer viruses, malware, the introduction of malicious code, system failures and disruptions, and cyber-attacks can result in business interruption, compromise of data and loss of assets. Complexity of the Company’s technology increases regularly and has increased the risk of a security incident involving data, network, systems and applications.

 

Third parties, including third party administrators and cloud-based systems, are also subject to cyber-attacks and breaches of confidential information, along with the other risks outlined above, any one of which may result in the Company incurring substantial costs and other negative consequences, including a material adverse effect on the Company's business, reputation, financial condition, results of operations or liquidity. The Company's increased use of open source software, cloud technology and software as a service can make it more difficult to identify and remedy such situations due to the disparate location of code utilized in its operations.

Security incidents have the potential to interrupt business, cause delays in processes and procedures directly affecting the Company, and jeopardize the Company’s, insureds’, claimants’, agents’ and others’ confidential data resulting in data loss, loss of assets, and reputational damages. If this occurs it could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business operations and financial results.

Security incidents could require significant resources, both internal and external, to resolve or remediate and could result in financial losses that may not be covered by insurance or not fully recoverable under any insurance. The Company may be subject to litigation and damages or regulatory action under data protection and privacy laws and regulations enacted by federal, state and foreign governments, or other regulatory bodies. As a result, the Company’s ability to conduct its business and its results of operations might be materially and adversely affected.

 

The Company’s business success and profitability depend, in part, on effective information technology systems and on continuing to develop and implement improvements in technology, particularly as the Company’s business processes become more digital.

 

The Company depends in large part on its technology systems for conducting business and processing claims, as well as for providing the data and analytics the Company utilizes to manage its business. As a result, the Company’s business success is dependent on maintaining the effectiveness of existing technology systems and on continuing to develop and enhance technology systems that support the Company’s business processes and strategic initiatives in an efficient manner, particularly as business processes become more digital and certain of the Company’s products are more technology-based. Some system development projects are long-term in nature and may negatively impact the Company’s expense ratios and may cost more than expected to complete. In addition, system development projects may not deliver the benefits or perform as expected, or may be replaced or become obsolete more quickly than expected, which could result in operational difficulties, additional costs or accelerated recognition of expenses. The Company’s ability to provide competitive services to, and conduct business with, new and existing customers in a cost effective manner as well as its ability to implement the Company’s strategic initiatives could be adversely impacted if the Company does not effectively and efficiently manage and upgrade its technology portfolio or if the costs of doing so are higher than expected.

 

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Investment Related Risks

 

The Company’s investment performance may suffer as a result of adverse capital market developments or other factors, which would in turn adversely affect its financial condition and results of operations.

 

The Company derives a significant portion of its income from its invested assets. As a result, the Company’s operating results depend in part on the performance of its investment portfolio. The Company’s operating results are subject to a variety of investment risks, including risks relating to general economic conditions, market volatility, interest rate fluctuations, liquidity risk and credit and default risk. The fair value of fixed income investments can fluctuate depending on changes in interest rates and the credit quality of underlying issuers. Generally, the fair market value of these investments has an inverse relationship with changes in interest rates, while net investment income earned by the Company from future investments in fixed maturities will generally increase or decrease with changes in interest rates. Additionally, with respect to certain of its investments, the Company is subject to pre-payment or reinvestment risk.

 

Credit tightening could negatively impact the Company’s future investment returns and limit the ability to invest in certain classes of investments. Credit tightening may cause opportunities that are marginally attractive to not be financed, which could cause a decrease in the number of bond issuances. If marginally attractive opportunities are financed, they may be at higher interest rates, which would cause credit risk of such opportunities to increase. If new debt supply is curtailed, it could cause interest rates on securities that are deemed to be credit-worthy to decline. Funds generated by operations, sales, and maturities will need to be invested. If the Company invests during a tight credit market, investment returns could be lower than the returns the Company is currently realizing and/or it may have to invest in higher risk securities.

 

With respect to its longer-term liabilities, the Company strives to structure its investments in a manner that recognizes liquidity needs for its future liabilities. However, if the Company’s liquidity needs or general and specific liability profile unexpectedly changes, it may not be successful in continuing to structure its investment portfolio in that manner. To the extent that the Company is unsuccessful in correlating its investment portfolio with its expected liabilities, the Company may be forced to liquidate its investments at times and prices that are not optimal, which could have a material adverse effect on the performance of its investment portfolio. The Company refers to this risk as liquidity risk, which is when the fair value of an investment is not able to be realized due to low demand by outside parties in the marketplace.

 

The Company is also subject to credit risk due to non-payment of principal or interest. Several classes of securities that the Company holds have default risk. As interest rates rise for companies that are deemed to be less creditworthy, there is a greater risk that they will be unable to pay contractual interest or principal on their debt obligations.

 

Interest rates are highly sensitive to many factors, including governmental monetary policies, domestic and international economic and political conditions and other factors beyond the Company’s control. Although the Company attempts to take measures to manage the risks of investing in a changing interest rate environment, the Company may not be able to mitigate interest rate sensitivity effectively. A significant increase in interest rates could have a material adverse effect on the market value of the Company’s fixed maturities securities.

 

The Company has investments in limited partnerships which are not liquid. For several limited partnership investments, the Company does not have the contractual option to redeem its interests but receives distributions based on the liquidation of the underlying assets. During the 3rd quarter of 2023, the Company provided the Global Debt Fund, LP with a formal withdrawal request in full. Going forward, one fifth of the partnership will be redeemed based on June 30th and December 31st fair values until the limited partnership investment is fully liquidated. The Company does not have the ability to sell or transfer its limited partnership interests without consent from the general partner. The Company’s returns could be negatively affected if the market values of the limited partnerships decline. If the Company needs liquidity, it might be forced to liquidate other investments at a time when prices are not optimal.

 

See Note 5 of the notes to consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for further information surrounding the Company’s investments as of December 31, 2023 and 2022.

Risks Related to the Company’s Business Partners

The Company cannot guarantee that its reinsurers will pay in a timely fashion, if at all, and as a result, the Company could experience losses.

The Company cedes a portion of gross written premiums to third-party reinsurers under reinsurance contracts. Although reinsurance makes the reinsurer liable to the Company to the extent the risk is transferred, it does not relieve the Company of

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its liability to its policyholders. Upon payment of claims, the Company will bill its reinsurers for their share of such claims. The reinsurers may not pay the reinsurance receivables that they owe to the Company or they may not pay such receivables on a timely basis. If the reinsurers fail to pay it or fail to pay on a timely basis, the Company’s financial results would be adversely affected. Lack of reinsurer liquidity, perceived improper underwriting or claim handling by the Company, and other factors could cause a reinsurer not to pay. See "Business – Reinsurance of Underwriting Risk" in Item 1 of Part I of this report.

See Note 10 of the notes to consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for further information surrounding the Company’s reinsurance receivable balances as of December 31, 2023 and 2022.

Since the Company depends on wholesale general agents and retail agents as wells as other insurance companies and reinsurance companies for a significant portion of its revenue, a loss of one or more could adversely affect the Company.

 

The Company’s Penn-America products are distributed through approximately 360 wholesale general agents that have specific quoting and binding authority and that in turn sell the Company’s insurance products to insureds through retail insurance brokers. Penn-America also distributes its products through approximately 2,400 retail agents. The Company markets and distributes its reinsurance products through third-party brokers, insurance companies and reinsurance companies. A loss of all or substantially all of the business produced by one or more of these wholesale general agents or larger retail agents as well as other insurance companies or reinsurance companies could have an adverse effect on the Company’s results of operations.

If market conditions cause reinsurance to be more costly or unavailable, the Company may be required to bear increased risks or reduce the level of its underwriting commitments.

As part of the Company’s overall strategy of risk and capacity management, it purchases reinsurance for a portion of the risk underwritten by its insurance subsidiaries. Market conditions beyond the Company’s control determine the availability and cost of the reinsurance it purchases, which may affect the level of its business and profitability. The Company’s third-party reinsurance facilities are generally subject to annual renewal. The Company may be unable to maintain its current reinsurance facilities or obtain other reinsurance facilities in adequate amounts and at favorable rates. If the Company is unable to renew expiring facilities or obtain new reinsurance facilities, either the net exposure to risk would increase or, if the Company is unwilling to bear an increase in net risk exposures, it would have to reduce the amount of risk it underwrites.

The Company’s financial and business results may fluctuate as a result of many factors, including cyclical changes in the insurance industry.

Historically, the results of companies in the property and casualty insurance industry have been subject to significant fluctuations and uncertainties. The industry's profitability can be affected significantly by:

competition;
capital capacity;
rising levels of actual costs that are not foreseen by companies at the time they price their products;
volatile and unpredictable developments, including man-made, weather-related and other natural catastrophes or terrorist attacks;
changes in loss reserves resulting from the general claims and legal environments as different types of claims arise and judicial interpretations relating to the scope of insurers' liability develop; and
fluctuations in interest rates, inflationary pressures and other changes in the investment environment, which affect returns on invested assets and may affect the ultimate payout of losses.

The demand for property and casualty insurance and reinsurance can also vary significantly, rising as the overall level of economic activity increases and falling as that activity decreases. The property and casualty insurance industry historically is cyclical in nature. These fluctuations in demand and competition could produce underwriting results that would have a negative impact on the Company’s consolidated results of operations and financial condition.

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The Company faces significant competitive pressures in its business that could cause demand for its products to fall and adversely affect the Company’s profitability.

The Company competes with a large number of other companies in its selected lines of business. The Company competes, and will continue to compete, with major U.S. and non-U.S. insurers and other regional companies, as well as mutual companies, specialty insurance companies, reinsurance companies, underwriting agencies and diversified financial services companies. Some of the Company’s competitors have greater financial and marketing resources than the Company does. The Company’s profitability could be adversely affected if it loses business to competitors offering similar products at or below the Company’s prices.

Many of the Company’s general agencies pay the insurance premiums on business they have bound to the Company on a monthly basis. This accumulation of balances due to the Company exposes it to credit risk.

Insurance premiums generally flow from the insured to their retail broker, then into a trust account controlled by the Company’s professional general agencies. Several of the Company’s professional general agencies are required to forward funds, net of commissions, to the Company following the end of each month. Consequently, the Company assumes a degree of credit risk on the aggregate amount of these balances that have been paid by the insured but have yet to reach the Company.

Brokers, insurance companies and reinsurance companies typically pay premiums on reinsurance treaties written with the Company on a quarterly basis. This accumulation of balances due to the Company exposes it to credit risk.

Assumed premiums on reinsurance treaties generally flow from the ceding companies to the Company on a quarterly basis. In some instances, the reinsurance treaties allow for funds to be withheld for longer periods as specified in the treaties. Consequently, the Company assumes a degree of credit risk on the aggregate amount of these balances that have been collected by the reinsured but have yet to reach the Company.

Because the Company provides its general agencies with specific quoting and binding authority, if any of them fail to comply with pre-established guidelines, the Company’s results of operations could be adversely affected.

The Company markets and distributes its insurance products through professional general agencies that have limited quoting and binding authority and that in turn sell the Company’s insurance products to insureds through retail insurance brokers. These professional general agencies can bind certain risks without the Company’s initial approval. If any of these wholesale professional general agencies fail to comply with the Company’s underwriting guidelines and the terms of their appointment, the Company could be bound on a particular risk or number of risks that were not anticipated when it developed the insurance products or estimated losses and loss adjustment expenses. Such actions could adversely affect the Company’s results of operations.

Risks Related to Regulation of the Company

 

Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s holding company structure and regulatory constraints limit its ability to receive dividends from subsidiaries in order to meet its cash requirements.

Global Indemnity Group, LLC is a holding company and, as such, has no substantial operations of its own. Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s assets primarily consist of cash, an investment portfolio, and ownership of the shares of its direct and indirect subsidiaries. Investment income generated by its investment portfolio as well as dividends and other permitted distributions from insurance subsidiaries are expected to be Global Indemnity Group, LLC's main source of funds to meet ongoing cash requirements and other expenses.

Due to its corporate structure, most of the dividends that Global Indemnity Group, LLC receives from its subsidiaries must pass through Penn-Patriot Insurance Company (“Penn-Patriot”). The inability of Penn-Patriot to pay dividends in an amount sufficient to enable Global Indemnity Group, LLC to meet its cash requirements at the holding company level could have a material adverse effect on its operations.

In addition, the inability of Penn-Patriot’s insurance subsidiaries to pay dividends to GBLI Holdings, LLC could limit GBLI Holdings, LLC’s ability to meet its debt obligations and corporate expense obligations and could have a material adverse effect on its operations.

See "Regulation – U.S. Regulation” in Item 1 of Part I of this report and “Liquidity and Capital Resources” section in Item 7 of Part II of this report for more information on state dividend limitations. Also, see Note 21 of the notes to consolidated

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financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for the maximum amount of dividends that could be paid by the Company’s U.S. insurance subsidiaries in 2024.

The Company’s businesses are heavily regulated and changes in regulation may limit the way it operates.

The Company is subject to extensive supervision and regulation in the U.S. states in which it operates. This is particularly true in those states in which the Company’s insurance subsidiaries are licensed, as opposed to those states where its insurance subsidiaries write business on a surplus lines basis. The supervision and regulation relate to numerous aspects of the Company’s business and financial condition. The primary purpose of the supervision and regulation is the protection of the Company’s insurance policyholders and not its investors. The extent of regulation varies, but generally is governed by state statutes. These statutes delegate regulatory, supervisory, and administrative authority to state insurance departments. This system of regulation covers, among other things:

standards of solvency, including risk-based capital measurements;
restrictions on the nature, quality and concentration of investments;
restrictions on the types of terms that the Company can include or exclude in the insurance policies it offers;
restrictions on the way rates are developed and the premiums the Company may charge;
standards for the manner in which general agencies may be appointed or terminated;
credit for reinsurance;
certain required methods of accounting;
reserves for unearned premiums, losses and other purposes; and
potential assessments for the provision of funds necessary for the settlement of covered claims under certain insurance policies provided by impaired, insolvent or failed insurance companies.

 

The statutes or the state insurance department regulations may affect the cost or demand for the Company’s products and may impede the Company from obtaining rate increases or taking other actions it might wish to take to increase profitability. Further, the Company may be unable to maintain all required licenses and approvals and its business may not fully comply with the wide variety of applicable laws and regulations or the relevant authority's interpretation of the laws and regulations. Also, regulatory authorities have discretion to grant, renew or revoke licenses and approvals subject to the applicable state statutes and appeal process. If the Company does not have the requisite licenses and approvals (including in some states the requisite secretary of state registration) or do not comply with applicable regulatory requirements, the insurance regulatory authorities could stop or temporarily suspend the Company from carrying on some or all of its activities or monetarily penalize the Company.

 

The U.S. insurance regulatory framework has come under increased federal scrutiny and some state legislators have considered or enacted laws that may alter or increase state regulation of insurance and reinsurance companies and holding companies. Moreover, the NAIC, which is an association of the insurance commissioners of all 50 U.S. States and the District of Columbia, and state insurance regulators regularly re-examine existing laws and regulations. Changes in these laws and regulations or the interpretation of these laws and regulations could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business.

 

Although the U.S. federal government has not historically regulated the insurance business, there have been proposals from time to time to impose federal regulation on the insurance industry. The Dodd-Frank Act establishes a Federal Insurance Office within the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The Federal Insurance Office initially has limited regulatory authority and is empowered to gather data and information regarding the insurance industry and insurers, including conducting a study for submission to the U.S. Congress on how to modernize and improve insurance regulation in the U.S. Further, the Dodd-Frank Act gives the Federal Reserve supervisory authority over a number of financial services companies, including insurance companies, if they are designated by a two-thirds vote of a Financial Stability Oversight Council as "systemically important." While the Company does not believe that it is "systemically important," as defined in the Dodd-Frank Act, it is possible that the Financial Stability Oversight Council may conclude that it is. If the Company were designated as "systemically important," the Federal Reserve's supervisory authority could include the ability to impose heightened financial regulation and could impact requirements regarding the Company’s capital, liquidity, leverage, business and investment conduct. As a

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result of the foregoing, the Dodd-Frank Act, or other additional federal regulation that is adopted in the future, could impose significant burdens on the Company, including impacting the ways in which it conducts business, increasing compliance costs and duplicating state regulation, and could result in a competitive disadvantage, particularly relative to smaller insurers who may not be subject to the same level of regulation.

 

The Company’s business practices with respect to data could give rise to liabilities or reputational harm as a result of governmental regulation, legal requirements or industry standards relating to consumer privacy and data protection.

 

If the Company fails to protect the privacy of third-party data or implement practices and procedures deemed necessary by regulators or consumers, the Company may be subject to fines, penalties, litigation, and reputational harm and its business may be seriously harmed. In addition, various government and consumer agencies and public advocacy groups have called for new regulation and changes in industry practices. It is possible that new laws, regulations, standards, recommendations, best practices or requirements will be adopted that would affect the Company’s business. To the extent that the Company is subject to new laws or recommendations or chooses to adopt new standards, recommendations, or other requirements, the Company may have greater compliance burdens. If the Company is perceived as not operating in accordance with industry best practices or any such guidelines or codes with regard to privacy, the Company’s reputation may suffer, and the Company could lose relationships with customers or partners.

 

 

Risks Related to Ownership of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s Shares and Certain Limited Liability Company Agreement (“LLCA”) Provisions

The interests of holders of class A common shares may conflict with the interests of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s controlling shareholder.

Fox Paine Capital Fund II International L.P. (the “Fox Paine Fund”), an investment fund managed by Fox Paine & Company, LLC, together with Fox Mercury Investments, L.P. and certain of its affiliates (the “FM Entities”), and Fox Paine & Company LLC (collectively, the “Fox Paine Entities”) beneficially own shares representing approximately 83.8% of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s total voting power. The percentage of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s total voting power that the Fox Paine Entities may exercise is greater than the percentage of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s total shares that the Fox Paine Entities beneficially own because the Fox Paine Entities beneficially own all of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s class B common shares, which are entitled to ten votes per share as opposed to class A common shares, which are entitled to one vote per share. The class A common shares and the class B common shares generally vote together as a single class on matters presented to Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s shareholders. As a result, the Fox Paine Entities have and will continue to have control over the outcome of certain matters requiring shareholder approval, including the power to, among other things:

elect any of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s directors not otherwise appointed by the Fox Paine Entities pursuant to the provisions of the LLCA (as defined below) (which entitles the Fox Paine Entities, in their collective capacity as the “Class B Majority Shareholder” (as defined in the LLCA), to certain Director appointment rights);
approve changes to the LLCA that require shareholder approval; and
ratify the appointment of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s auditors.

Subject to certain exceptions, the Fox Paine Entities may also be able to prevent or cause (either by way of a sale of their own stake or by approving the merger or sale of Global Indemnity Group, LLC as a whole) a change of control of Global Indemnity Group, LLC. The Fox Paine Entities’ control over Global Indemnity Group, LLC, and the Fox Paine Entities’ ability in certain circumstances to prevent or cause a change of control of Global Indemnity Group, LLC, may delay or prevent a change of control, or cause a change of control to occur at a time when it is not favored by other shareholders. As a result, the trading price of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s class A common shares could be adversely affected.

 

In addition, Global Indemnity Group, LLC has agreed to pay Fox Paine & Company, LLC an annual management fee which is adjusted annually to reflect change in the consumer price index published by the US Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics “CPI-U”, in exchange for management services. The current fee charged for the twelve month period beginning September 5, 2023 was $3.2 million. Global Indemnity Group, LLC has also agreed to pay a termination fee of cash in an amount to be agreed upon, plus reimbursement of expenses, upon the termination of Fox Paine & Company, LLC’s management services in connection with the consummation of a change of control transaction that does not involve Fox Paine & Company, LLC and its affiliates. Global Indemnity Group, LLC has also agreed to pay Fox Paine & Company, LLC a transaction advisory fee of cash in an amount to be agreed upon, plus reimbursement of expenses upon the consummation

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of a change of control transaction that does not involve Fox Paine & Company, LLC and its affiliates in exchange for advisory services to be provided by Fox Paine & Company, LLC in connection therewith. These management services arrangements may make a change of control transaction for Global Indemnity Group, LLC less attractive to a potential acquiror and may affect any economic allocation of proceeds that a potential acquiror may pay in any such transaction as between the Fox Paine Entities and the holders of class A common shares. The Fox Paine Entities may in the future make significant investments in other insurance or reinsurance companies. Some of these companies may compete with Global Indemnity Group, LLC or its subsidiaries. The Fox Paine Entities are not obligated to advise Global Indemnity Group, LLC of any investment or business opportunities of which they are aware, and they are not prohibited or restricted from competing with Global Indemnity Group, LLC or its subsidiaries.

Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s controlling shareholder has the right to appoint a certain number of the members of the Board of Directors proportionate to such shareholder’s ownership in Global Indemnity Group, LLC and also otherwise controls the election of Directors due to its share ownership.

While the Fox Paine Entities have the right under the terms of the LLCA to appoint a certain number of directors of the Board of Directors, equal in aggregate to the pro rata percentage of the voting power in Global Indemnity Group, LLC beneficially held by the Fox Paine Entities for so long as the Fox Paine Entities beneficially own (i) a majority of the outstanding class B common shares and (ii) shares representing, in the aggregate, at least 25% or more of the voting power in Global Indemnity Group, LLC, it also controls the election of all directors to the Board of Directors due to its controlling share ownership. The Board of Directors currently consists of seven directors, all of whom were either identified and proposed for consideration for the Board of Directors by the Fox Paine Entities or appointed by the Fox Paine Entities.

Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s LLCA contains an exclusive forum provision that may discourage lawsuits against the Company or Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s directors and officers.

Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s LLCA requires that, unless Global Indemnity Group, LLC otherwise consents, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware shall be the sole and exclusive forum for any federal securities laws claims brought under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, although, for the avoidance of doubt, all claims accompanying any such federal securities laws claim will be subject to the mandatory arbitration provisions of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s LLCA. Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s capital stock is deemed to have received notice of and consented to these provisions.

Global Indemnity Group, LLC believes that these provisions are enforceable under both state and federal law. Nevertheless, federal courts have concurrent jurisdiction over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder. Investors cannot waive compliance with the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations thereunder. Accordingly, there is uncertainty as to whether a court would enforce this provision.

These provisions may increase costs to bring a claim, discourage claims or limit a shareholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with Global Indemnity Group, LLC or Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s directors, officers or other employees, which may discourage such lawsuits against Global Indemnity Group, LLC or Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s directors, officers or other employees. If a court were to find Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s choice of forum provision to be inapplicable or unenforceable in an action, Global Indemnity Group, LLC may incur additional costs associated with resolving such action in other jurisdictions.

Because the Company relies on certain services provided by Fox Paine & Company, LLC, the loss of such services could adversely affect its business.

Fox Paine & Company, LLC provides certain management services to the Company. To the extent that Fox Paine & Company, LLC is unable or unwilling to provide similar services in the future, and the Company is unable to perform those services itself or is unable to secure replacement services, the Company’s business could be adversely affected.

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The Company's share repurchase program may affect or increase the volatility of the price of its class A common shares.

Since October 2022 and through March 15, 2024, Global Indemnity Group, LLC repurchased and retired an aggregate of 1,357,082 shares of its class A common shares in the open market and in privately negotiated transactions at an aggregate price of $34.0 million or an average of $25.05 per share. As of such date, under its share repurchase program, Global Indemnity Group, LLC had a remaining authorization to purchase up to an additional $101.0 million of its class A common shares. Although Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s Board of Directors has determined that the repurchase program is in the best interests of its shareholders, the repurchases expose the Company to risks including:

the use of a substantial portion of the Company’s cash reserves, which may reduce its ability to engage in significant cash acquisitions or to pursue other business opportunities that could create significant value to its shareholders;
the risk that the Company may not be able to replenish its cash reserves by raising debt or equity financing in the future on terms acceptable to the Company, or at all; and
the risk that these repurchases have reduced the Company’s “public float,” which is the number of Global Indemnity Group, LLC shares owned by non-affiliate shareholders and available for trading in the securities markets, and likely reduced the number of its shareholders, which may reduce the volume of trading in Global Indemnity Group, LLC shares and may result in lower share prices and reduced liquidity in the trading of Global Indemnity Group, LLC shares.

The existence of a share repurchase program may cause the Company's class A share price to be higher than it would be in the absence of the program. In addition, the program may be suspended or discontinued at any time, which could cause the market price of the Company's class A common shares to decline.

Risks Related to Taxation

Legislative and regulatory action by the U.S. Congress or other tax authorities in the jurisdictions in which we operate could materially and adversely affect the Company.

 

The Company’s tax position could be adversely impacted by changes in tax laws or tax regulations or the interpretation or enforcement thereof. Legislative action may be taken by the U.S. Congress or other tax authorities in the jurisdictions in which we operate which, if ultimately enacted, could, among other things, adversely affect the Company’s effective tax rate and cash tax position.

The Company may be subject to adverse foreign taxes related to its historic non-US subsidiaries.

Although the Company and its subsidiaries have eliminated most of their historic foreign subsidiaries, the statute of limitations remains open in certain foreign jurisdictions, and it is possible that the Company could be subject to materially adverse foreign taxes with respect to its historic operations. Such adverse foreign taxes could also potentially arise as a result of retroactive changes in law.

Holders of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares may be subject to U.S. federal income tax and state and local income taxes on their share of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s taxable income, regardless of whether they receive any cash distributions from Global Indemnity Group, LLC.

 

Under current law, so long as Global Indemnity Group, LLC is not required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act and 90% of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s gross income for each taxable year constitutes “qualifying income” within the meaning of the Internal Revenue Code on a continuing basis, Global Indemnity Group, LLC currently expects that it has been and will continue to be treated, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, as a partnership and not as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation. Holders of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares may be subject to U.S. federal, state and local taxation on their allocable share of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s items of income, gain, loss, deduction and credit, for each of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s taxable years ending with or within their taxable year, regardless of whether they receive any cash distributions from Global Indemnity Group, LLC. Such holders may not receive cash distributions equal to their allocable share of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s net taxable income or even the tax liability that results from that income. Accordingly, such holders may be required to make tax payments in connection with their ownership of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares that significantly exceed cash distributions received by them in any specific year. Income earned by the subsidiaries of Global Indemnity Group, LLC is subject to corporate tax in the United States and certain foreign jurisdictions and, therefore, is not taxable to Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s shareholders until the income is distributed by the subsidiaries to Global Indemnity Group, LLC.

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There can be no assurance that amounts paid as distributions on Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares will be sufficient to cover the tax liability arising from ownership of the common shares.

 

Any distributions paid on Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares will not take into account a holder’s particular tax situation and, therefore, because of the foregoing as well as other possible reasons, may not be sufficient to pay their full amount of tax based upon such holder’s share of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s net taxable income. In addition, the actual amount and timing of distributions will always be subject to the discretion of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s board of directors. Even if Global Indemnity Group, LLC does not distribute cash in an amount that is sufficient to fund a holder’s tax liabilities, such holder will still be required to pay income taxes on their share of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s taxable income.

If Global Indemnity Group, LLC is treated as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, the value of the shares could be adversely affected.

 

The value of an investment in Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares may depend in part on Global Indemnity Group, LLC being treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes. A publicly traded partnership will be treated as a partnership, and not as a corporation, for U.S. federal income tax purposes so long as 90% or more of its gross income for each taxable year constitutes “qualifying income” within the meaning of the Internal Revenue Code, and it is not required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and related rules. Qualifying income generally includes dividends, interest, capital gains from the sale or other disposition of stocks and securities and certain other forms of investment income.

 

Although Global Indemnity Group, LLC believes that it has met in previous taxable years, and intends to manage its affairs so that it will continue to meet in the current and subsequent taxable years, the 90% test described above in each taxable year, no assurance can be given as to the types of income that will be earned in any given year. Global Indemnity Group, LLC may not meet these requirements or Global Indemnity Group, LLC may determine it is prudent to change Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s structure. In either case, Global Indemnity Group, LLC may be treated as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes in the future. Global Indemnity Group, LLC has not requested, and does not plan to request, a ruling from the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) on its treatment as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, or on any other matter affecting the taxation of Global Indemnity Group, LLC and its subsidiaries.

Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s interests in certain businesses are held through entities that are treated as corporations for U.S. federal income tax purposes; such corporations may be liable for significant taxes and may create other adverse tax consequences, which could potentially adversely affect the value of an investment in Global Indemnity Group, LLC.

 

In light of the publicly traded partnership rules under U.S. federal income tax law and other requirements, Global Indemnity Group, LLC currently holds interests in certain businesses through entities that are treated as corporations for U.S. federal income tax purposes, including, in particular, each of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s insurance company subsidiaries. Each such corporation could be liable for significant U.S. federal income taxes and applicable state, local and other taxes, which could adversely affect the value of an investment in Global Indemnity Group, LLC. Furthermore, it is possible that the IRS or other tax authority could challenge the manner in which such corporation’s taxable income is computed by the Company.

Taxable gain or loss on a sale or other disposition of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares could be more or less than expected.

If a sale or other disposition of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares by a holder of such shares is taxable in the United States, the holder will recognize gain or loss equal to the difference between the amount realized by such holder on the sale or other disposition and such holder’s adjusted tax basis in those shares. A holder’s adjusted tax basis in the shares at the time of sale or other disposition will generally be lower than the holder’s original tax basis in the shares to the extent that prior distributions to such holder exceed the total taxable income allocated to such holder. A holder of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares may therefore recognize a gain on a sale or other disposition of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares if the shares are sold or disposed of at a price that is less than their original cost. In addition, a portion of the amount realized, whether or not representing gain, may be treated as ordinary income to such holder to the extent attributable to the holder’s allocable share of unrealized gain or loss in Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s assets that consist of certain unrealized receivables or inventory (if any).

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Global Indemnity Group, LLC cannot match transferors and transferees of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares, and therefore, Global Indemnity Group, LLC has adopted certain income tax accounting conventions that may not conform with all aspects of applicable tax requirements.

 

The Internal Revenue Code provides that items of partnership income and deductions must be allocated between transferors and transferees of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares. Because Global Indemnity Group, LLC cannot match transferors and transferees of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares, Global Indemnity Group, LLC will apply certain assumptions and conventions in an attempt to comply with applicable tax rules and to report income, gain, loss, deduction and credit to holders in a manner that reflects such holders’ beneficial shares of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s items. These conventions are designed to more closely align the receipt of cash and the allocation of income between holders of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares, but these assumptions and conventions may not be in compliance with all aspects of applicable tax requirements. In addition, as a result of such allocation method, holders may be allocated income even if they do not receive any distributions.

 

If Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s conventions are not allowed by the Treasury Regulations (or only apply to transfers of less than all of a holder’s shares) or if the IRS otherwise does not accept Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s conventions, the IRS may contend that Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s income or losses must be reallocated among the holders of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares. If such a contention were sustained, certain holders’ respective tax liabilities would be adjusted to the possible detriment of certain other holders.

Tax-exempt shareholders may face certain adverse U.S. tax consequences from owning Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares.

Global Indemnity Group, LLC is not required to manage its operations in a manner that would minimize the likelihood of generating income that would constitute “unrelated business taxable income” (“UBTI”) to the extent allocated to a tax-exempt shareholder. Although Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s insurance operations are conducted by subsidiaries that are treated as corporations for U.S. federal income tax purposes and the operations of such corporation would generally not result in an allocation of UBTI to a shareholder on account of the activities of those subsidiaries, Global Indemnity Group, LLC may make certain investments other than through a corporate subsidiary.

Moreover, UBTI also includes income attributable to debt-financed property, and Global Indemnity Group, LLC is not prohibited from incurring debt to finance its investments, including investments in subsidiaries. Furthermore, Global Indemnity Group, LLC is not prohibited from being (or causing a subsidiary to be) a guarantor of loans made to a subsidiary. If Global Indemnity Group, LLC (or certain of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s subsidiaries) were treated as the borrower for U.S. tax purposes on account of such guarantees, some or all of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s investments could be considered debt-financed property. The potential for income to be characterized as UBTI could make Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares an unsuitable investment for a tax-exempt entity. Tax-exempt shareholders are urged to consult their own tax advisors regarding the tax consequences of an investment in Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares.

The IRS Schedules K-1 Global Indemnity Group, LLC provides to holders of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares each year are more complicated than the IRS Forms 1099 provided by corporations to their stockholders. In addition, Global Indemnity Group, LLC may not be able to furnish to each holder of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares specific tax information within 90 days after the close of each calendar year and such holders may be required to request an extension of time to file their tax returns.

 

Holders of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares are required to take into account their allocable share of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s items of income, gain, loss, deduction and other items of the partnership for Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s taxable year ending within or with their taxable year, regardless of whether they received cash distributions. As a publicly traded partnership, Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s operating results, including distributions of income, dividends, gains, losses or deductions and adjustments to carrying basis, for each year will be reported on IRS Schedules K-1 (and, if applicable, Schedules K-2 and K-3). Income earned by the subsidiaries of Global Indemnity Group, LLC is subject to corporate tax in the United States and certain foreign jurisdictions and, therefore, is not taxable to Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s shareholders until the income is distributed by the subsidiaries to Global Indemnity Group, LLC. Global Indemnity Group, LLC intends to furnish holders of the common shares, as soon as reasonably practicable after the close of each calendar year, with tax information (including IRS Schedules K-1), which describes their allocable share of gross ordinary income for Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s preceding taxable year. However, it may require longer than 90 days after the end of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s calendar year to obtain the requisite information so that IRS Schedules K-1 (and, if applicable, Schedules K-2 and K-3) may be prepared by Global Indemnity Group, LLC. Consequently, holders of Global

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Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares who are U.S. taxpayers may need to file annually with the IRS (and certain states) a request for an extension past the April 15 or the otherwise applicable due date of their income tax return for the taxable year.

 

In addition, holders of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares are required to report for all tax purposes consistently with the information provided by Global Indemnity Group, LLC for each taxable year. As a result, it is possible that a holder of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares will be required to file amended income tax returns as a result of adjustments to items on the corresponding income tax returns of the partnership. Any obligation for a holder of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares to file amended income tax returns for that or any other reason, including any costs incurred in the preparation or filing of such returns, are the responsibility of each such holder.

 

Finally, because holders are required to report their allocable share of gross ordinary income, tax reporting for holders of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares is more complicated than for shareholders of a regular corporation.

Holders of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares may be subject to an additional U.S. federal income tax on net investment income allocated to such holder by Global Indemnity Group, LLC and on gain on the sale of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common shares.

Individuals, estates and trusts are currently subject to an additional 3.8% tax on “net investment income” (or undistributed “net investment income,” in the case of estates and trusts) for each taxable year, with such tax applying to the lesser of such income or the excess of such person’s adjusted gross income (with certain adjustments) over a specified amount. Net investment income includes net income from interest, dividends, annuities, royalties and rents and net gain attributable to the disposition of investment property. It is anticipated that net income and gain attributable to an investment in Global Indemnity Group, LLC will be included in a holder of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common share’s “net investment income” subject to this additional tax.

The ability of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s corporate subsidiaries to use their net operating loss carryforwards to offset their future taxable income may be subject to limitations.

The ability of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s corporate subsidiaries to use their federal net operating losses and built-in losses (“NOLs”) to offset potential future taxable income and related income taxes may be limited. The Internal Revenue Code imposes an annual limitation on the amount of taxable income that may be offset by loss carryforwards of a “loss corporation” if the corporation experiences an “ownership change” (generally, a cumulative change in ownership that exceeds 50% of the value of a corporation’s stock over a rolling three-year period). Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s corporate subsidiaries may experience an ownership change as a result of issuances or other changes in ownership of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s shares. In addition, certain anti-avoidance rules could result in the application of similar limitations on the ability of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s corporate subsidiaries to use their NOLs. To the extent Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s corporate subsidiaries experience an ownership change or the above rules otherwise become applicable, the ability of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s corporate subsidiaries to utilize their federal NOLs could be significantly limited, and similar limitations may apply at the state level.

Risks Related to Employees

The Company is dependent on its senior executives and the loss of any of these executives or the Company’s inability to attract and retain other key personnel could adversely affect its business.

The Company’s success depends upon its ability to attract and retain qualified employees and upon the ability of senior management and other key employees to implement the Company’s business strategy. The Company believes there are a limited number of available, qualified executives in the business lines in which it competes. The success of the Company’s initiatives and future performance depend, in significant part, upon the continued service of the senior management team and transitions of senior management when new members come on and/or existing members leave. The future loss of any of the services of members of the Company’s senior management team or the inability to attract and retain other talented personnel could impede the further implementation of the Company’s business strategy, which could have a material adverse effect on its business. In addition, the Company does not currently maintain key man life insurance policies with respect to any of its employees.

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General Risk Factors

If the Company is unable to maintain effective internal control over financial reporting, the Company’s business may be adversely affected, investors may lose confidence in the accuracy and completeness of the Company’s financial reports and the market price of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common stock could be adversely affected.

The Company is required to maintain internal control over financial reporting and to report any material weaknesses in such internal control. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires that the Company evaluate and determine the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting, provide a management report on internal control over financial reporting and requires that the Company’s internal control over financial reporting be attested to by its independent registered public accounting firm.

The Company may discover material weaknesses in the future which may lead to its financial statements being materially misstated. As a result, the market price of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s common stock could be adversely affected, and Global Indemnity Group, LLC could become subject to investigations by the stock exchange on which its securities are listed, the SEC, or other regulatory authorities, which could require additional financial and management resources. The cost of remediating a potential material weakness could materially adversely affect the Company’s business and financial condition.

The Company’s operating results and shareholders’ equity may be adversely affected by currency fluctuations.

The Company’s functional currency is the U.S. dollar. The Company conducts business with some customers in foreign currencies and several of the Company’s U.S. and non-U.S. subsidiaries maintain cash accounts in foreign currencies. At period-end, the Company re-measures non-U.S. currency financial assets to their current U.S. dollar equivalent. The resulting gain or loss on foreign denominated cash accounts is reflected in income during the period. Financial liabilities, if any, are generally adjusted within the reserving process. However, for known losses on claims to be paid in foreign currencies, the Company re-measures the liabilities to their current U.S. dollar equivalent each period end with the resulting gain or loss reflected in income during the period. Foreign exchange risk is reviewed as part of the Company’s risk management process. The Company may experience losses resulting from fluctuations in the values of non-U.S. currencies relative to the strength of the U.S. dollar, which could adversely impact the Company’s results of operations and financial condition.

 

Item 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS

None.

 

Item 1C. CYBERSECURITY

 

Risk Management and Strategy

 

The Company recognizes the importance of developing, implementing and maintaining cybersecurity measures to safeguard its information systems and protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of its data. The Company maintains a cybersecurity program to assess, identify and manage cybersecurity threat risks. The Company assesses risks from cybersecurity threats, monitors its information systems for potential vulnerabilities and tests those systems pursuant to the Company’s cybersecurity policies, processes, and practices, which are integrated into the Company’s overall risk management process. To protect the Company’s information systems from cybersecurity threats, the Company uses various security tools and personnel that help the Company identify, escalate, investigate, resolve, and recover from security incidents.

 

Managing Material Risks & Integrated Overall Risk Management

 

The Company has incorporated cybersecurity risk management within its Enterprise Risk Management framework. Led by the Company’s Senior Vice President of Operations, the Company's risk management team, comprised of senior management team members, integrates the evaluation of cybersecurity risks in accordance with its business objectives, operational needs, and legal requirements.

Acknowledging the intricate and dynamic landscape of cybersecurity threats, the Company collaborates with external experts, such as cybersecurity assessors, consultants, and auditors, to assess and test its risk mitigation tools. The Company’s

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engagement with these external entities encompasses routine reviews, threat assessments, and ongoing consultations to enhance the Company’s security measures.

Prior to engagement, the Company undertakes security assessments of third-party providers that process or store confidential Company information, and monitors their activities for alignment with the Company’s cybersecurity standards. This monitoring involves evaluations performed by the Company’s team of security analysts, and annual review by the Company’s Chief Information Security Officer (“CISO”).

 

Risks from Cybersecurity Threats

 

Refer to the risk factor captioned “A failure in the Company’s operational systems or infrastructure or those of third parties, including security breaches or cyber-attacks, could disrupt the Company’s business, its reputation, and / or cause losses which would have a material effect on the Company’s business operations and financial results” in Part I, Item 1A. “Risk Factors” for additional description of cybersecurity risks that could materially impact the Company’s business strategy, results of operations or financial condition.

 

Governance

 

Management’s Role Managing Risk

 

The CISO advises the Enterprise Risk Management Committee (the “ERM Committee”) of the Board of Directors on cybersecurity risks. The CISO provides the following information to the ERM Committee on a quarterly basis:

Company threat profile and emerging threats;
Status of cybersecurity initiatives and strategies;
Incident reports and learnings from any cybersecurity events; and
Compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards.

The Company conducts an annual review of the Company’s cybersecurity posture and the effectiveness of its risk mitigation strategies. This review helps in identifying areas for improvement and aligning cybersecurity efforts with the overall risk management framework.

 

Risk Management Personnel

 

Primary responsibility for assessing, monitoring, and managing the Company’s cybersecurity risks rests with the CISO. The CISO has obtained cybersecurity credentials for the role, possesses expertise in the technical domain, and receives assistance from industry experts in decision-making. The CISO oversees the information security policies and data protection programs, implementation of protective and detective tools, tests the Company’s compliance with standards, and remediates known risks. These initiatives include phishing simulations, semi-annual cybersecurity education to employees, and competency assessments. Additionally, the Company conducts table-top incident response practices and other measures to enhance overall cybersecurity preparedness. These efforts underscore the organization's commitment to addressing a wide range of potential threats and cybersecurity challenges.

 

Monitoring Cybersecurity Incidents

 

The CISO is informed about the developments in cybersecurity, including potential threats and risk management techniques. This ongoing knowledge acquisition is crucial for the prevention, detection, mitigation, and remediation of cybersecurity incidents. In the event of a cybersecurity incident, the CISO is equipped with a cyber incident response plan (“CIRP”) supported by a cross-functional cyber incident response team (“CIRT”). The CIRT oversees and responds to cybersecurity incidents. Its core objectives encompasses detection and response, conducting incident analysis and investigation, implementing containment and eradication measures, and facilitating recovery processes. It also entails coordinating and communicating with the Company's management, regulators, affected parties, and external security experts. The CIRT determines the materiality of the incident, maintains documentation and reporting practices, and fosters a culture of improvement.

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Reporting to Board of Directors

 

The ERM Committee is central to the Board’s oversight of cybersecurity risks and bears the primary responsibility for this area. The CISO, in his capacity, informs the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Audit Executive, the Chief Information Officer, and the Legal Department of aspects related to cybersecurity risks and incidents. Furthermore, the CISO escalates significant cybersecurity matters to the ERM Committee.

The Board has established oversight mechanisms to govern risks associated with cybersecurity threats because they recognize the significance of these threats to the Company’s operational integrity and stakeholder confidence.

Item 2. PROPERTIES

At December 31, 2023, office space leased in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, holds the Penn-America segment’s principal executive offices and headquarters.

A decision has been made for employees who do not work at the Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania office to work remotely. The Company exercised the early lease termination clauses for its Omaha, Nebraska and Cavan, Ireland leases and intends to exercise the early termination clause for its Scottsdale, Arizona lease. As a result, the lease liability on the Company's consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2023 and 2022 include $3.2 million and $4.6 million, respectively, which represents the present value of expected lease costs through the early termination date.

The Company believes the Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania location is suitable and adequate to meet its needs. Additionally, a number of the Company’s personnel work remotely and almost all of the Company’s personnel have the ability to work remotely.

The Company is, from time to time, involved in various legal proceedings in the ordinary course of business. The Company purchased insurance and reinsurance coverage for risks in amounts that it considers adequate. However, there can be no assurance that the insurance and reinsurance coverage that the Company maintains is sufficient or will be available in adequate amounts or at a reasonable cost. The Company does not believe that the resolution of any currently pending legal proceedings, either individually or taken as a whole, will have a material adverse effect on its business, results of operations, cash flows, or financial condition.

There is a greater potential for disputes with reinsurers who are in runoff. Some of the Company’s reinsurers have operations that are in runoff, and therefore, the Company closely monitors those relationships. The Company anticipates that, similar to the rest of the insurance and reinsurance industry, it will continue to be subject to litigation and arbitration proceedings in the ordinary course of business.

Item 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES

None.

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PART II

Item 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES

Market for Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s Class A Common Shares

 

On August 28, 2020, Global Indemnity Group, LLC completed a scheme of arrangement and amalgamation that effected certain transactions that resulted in the shareholders of Global Indemnity Limited becoming the holders of all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Global Indemnity Group, LLC. Effective January 3, 2022, Global Indemnity Group, LLC voluntarily transferred the listing of its class A common shares from the NASDAQ to the NYSE and is trading under the ticker symbol GBLI. Prior to January 3, 2022, the Company’s class A common shares traded on the NASDAQ. Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s predecessors have been publicly traded since 2003.

 

There is no established public trading market for Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s class B common shares.

As of December 31, 2023, Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s class A common shares were held by approximately 140 shareholders of record. The Fox Paine Entities comprise the two holders of record of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s class B common shares as of December 31, 2023.

See Note 18 to the consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for information regarding securities authorized under Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s equity compensation plans.

Performance of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s Class A Common Shares

 

The following graph represents a five-year comparison of the cumulative total return to shareholders for the Company’s class A common shares and stock of companies included in the NASDAQ Insurance Index and NASDAQ Composite Index.

img146351187_0.jpg 

 

 

 

12/31/18

 

 

12/31/19

 

 

12/31/20

 

 

12/31/21

 

 

12/31/22

 

 

12/31/23

 

GBLI

 

$

100.0

 

 

$

81.8

 

 

$

78.9

 

 

$

69.4

 

 

$

64.3

 

 

$

89.0

 

NASDAQ Insurance Index

 

 

100.0

 

 

 

126.7

 

 

 

127.9

 

 

 

144.8

 

 

 

147.6

 

 

 

159.8

 

NASDAQ Composite Index

 

 

100.0

 

 

 

135.2

 

 

 

194.2

 

 

 

235.8

 

 

 

157.7

 

 

 

226.2

 

 

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Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities

 

There were no sales of unregistered equity securities during the year ended December 31, 2023.

Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s Purchases of Class A Common Shares

Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s Share Incentive Plan allows employees to surrender class A common shares as payment for the tax liability incurred upon the vesting of restricted stock and restricted stock units that were issued under the Share Incentive Plan. During 2023, Global Indemnity Group, LLC purchased an aggregate 18,860 of surrendered class A common shares from employees for $0.6 million.

All shares repurchased from third parties and employees are held as treasury stock and recorded at cost until formally retired.

 

On October 21, 2022, Global Indemnity Group, LLC announced it commenced a stock repurchase program beginning in the fourth quarter of 2022. On January 3, 2023, Global Indemnity Group, LLC announced that it had authorized an increase in the aggregate stock purchase program from $32 million, which was authorized on October 21, 2022, to $60 million. On June 8, 2023, Global Indemnity Group, LLC's Board of Directors approved an additional increase in the existing share buyback authorization amount of $60 million to $135 million. The authorization to repurchase will expire on December 31, 2027. The timing and actual number of shares repurchased, if any, will depend on a variety of factors, including price, general business and market conditions, and alternative investment opportunities.

Under the repurchase program, repurchases may be made from time to time using a variety of methods, including open market purchases or privately negotiated transactions, all in compliance with Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s Insider Trading Policy, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, and other applicable legal requirements. The repurchase program does not obligate Global Indemnity Group, LLC to acquire any particular amount of class A common shares, and the repurchase program may be suspended or discontinued at any time at Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s discretion.

 

Under the repurchase program, the Company repurchased 1,357,082 shares from third parties for an aggregate amount of $34.0 million, or $25.05 per share during the year ended December 31, 2023. As a result of these transactions, book value per share increased by $1.69 per share.

See Note 15 to the consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for additional information on the retirement of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s class A common shares as well as a tabular disclosure of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s share repurchases by month.

Distributions

 

Future dividends remain subject to the discretion of GBLI’s Board of Directors, including the Board of Director’s evaluation of the company’s financial performance, capital and reserve positions, liquidity, balance sheet, and other factors. See Note 15 of the consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for distributions declared during the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021.

Global Indemnity Group, LLC is a holding company and has no direct operations. The ability of Global Indemnity to pay distributions is subject to Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s Second Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement (the “LLCA”), and depends, in part, on the ability of its subsidiaries to pay dividends. The Company’s insurance subsidiaries are subject to significant regulatory restrictions limiting their ability to declare and pay dividends. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition – Liquidity and Capital Resources – Sources and Uses of Funds” in Item 7 of Part II of this report for dividend limitation and Note 21 of the notes to the consolidated financial statement in Item 8 of Part II of this report for the dividends declared and paid by the Company’s insurance subsidiaries in 2023. For a discussion of factors affecting the Company’s ability to make distributions, see “Business – Regulation” in Item 1 of Part I, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Liquidity and Capital Resources – Sources and Uses of Funds” in Item 7 of Part II, and Note 21 of the notes to the consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report.

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Item 7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

The following discussion and analysis of the Company’s financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes of Global Indemnity included elsewhere in this report. Some of the information contained in this discussion and analysis or set forth elsewhere in this report, including information with respect to the Company’s plans and strategy, constitutes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Please see "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" at the end of this Item 7 and “Risk Factors” in Item 1A above for more information. You should review “Risk Factors” in Item 1A above for a discussion of important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results described in or implied by the forward-looking statements contained herein.

 

Financial Highlights

 

2023 Consolidated Results of Operations

Net income of $25.4 million, or $1.84 per share basic and $1.83 per share diluted
Net earned premium of $473.4 million; Property: 33% and Casualty: 67%
Penn-America accident year combined ratio of 95.1% for 2023 compared to 96.6% for 2022.
Net investment income of $55.4 million. Book yield on the fixed maturities portfolio was 4.0%.
Operating cash flows of $42.9 million

2023 Consolidated Financial Condition

Total investments of $1.3 billion; fixed maturities and short-term securities comprise 96% of total investments
Total assets of $1.7 billion
No debt
Since the Company's initial public offering in 2003, the total capital returned to shareholders was $609.5 million, comprising $522.2 million of share repurchases and $87.3 million of distributions / dividends. This includes $13.9 million of distributions during 2023.
Shareholders' equity of $648.8 million
Book value per common share of $47.53

 

Overview

The Company operates and manages its business through two business segments: Penn-America and Non-Core Operations.

The Company’s Penn-America products are distributed through approximately 360 wholesale general agents, 2,400 retail agents, and 20,000 direct-to-consumer policies. The Company’s wholesale general agents have limited quoting and binding authority. Penn-America operates in the excess and surplus lines marketplace. Penn-America offers specialty property and casualty products designed for GBLI's Wholesale Commercial, Programs, InsurTech, and Assumed Reinsurance product offerings.

 

The Company’s Non-Core Operations segment represents lines of business that have been de-emphasized or are no longer being written. Non-Core Operations includes manufactured and dwelling home business, farm, ranch and equine business, specialty personal lines products such as motorcycle, watercraft, and certain homeowners, property brokerage, non-renewed retrocessional reinsurance treaties, several smaller casualty lines, and terminated commercial programs. The two key activities of Non-Core Operations are managing transition service agreements related to the sales of the Company’s renewal rights and handling claims activity and loss reserves on de-emphasized and terminated business. See Note 2 of the notes to consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for additional information on the sales of the Company’s renewal rights.

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The Company derives its revenues primarily from premiums paid on insurance policies that it writes and from income generated by its investment portfolio, net of fees paid for investment management services. The amount of insurance premiums that the Company receives is a function of the amount and type of policies it writes, as well as prevailing market prices.

The Company’s expenses include losses and loss adjustment expenses, acquisition costs and other underwriting expenses, corporate and other operating expenses, interest, investment expenses, and income taxes. Losses and loss adjustment expenses are estimated by management and reflect the Company’s best estimate of ultimate losses and costs arising during the reporting period and revisions of prior period estimates. The Company records its best estimate of losses and loss adjustment expenses considering both internal and external actuarial analyses of the estimated losses the Company expects to incur on the insurance policies it writes. The ultimate losses and loss adjustment expenses will depend on the actual costs to resolve claims. Acquisition costs consist principally of commissions and premium taxes that are typically a percentage of the premiums on the insurance policies the Company writes, net of ceding commissions earned from reinsurers. Other underwriting expenses consist primarily of personnel expenses and general operating expenses related to underwriting activities. Corporate and other operating expenses are comprised primarily of outside legal fees, other professional and accounting fees, directors’ fees, management fees & advisory fees, and salaries and benefits for company personnel whose services relate to the support of corporate activities. Interest expense is primarily comprised of amounts due on outstanding debt.

Critical Accounting Estimates and Policies

The Company’s consolidated financial statements are prepared in conformity with GAAP, which require it to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting periods. See Note 4 of the notes to consolidated financial statements contained in Item 8 of Part II of this report. Actual results could differ from those estimates and assumptions.

The Company believes that of the Company’s significant accounting policies, the following may involve a higher degree of judgment and estimation.

Liability for Unpaid Losses and Loss Adjustment Expenses

Although variability is inherent in estimates, the Company believes that the liability for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses reflects Management’s best estimate for future amounts needed to pay losses and related loss adjustment expenses and the impact of its reinsurance coverage with respect to insured events.

In developing losses and loss adjustment expense ("loss" or "losses") reserve estimates, the Company’s actuaries perform detailed reserve analyses each quarter. To perform the analysis, the data is organized at a "reserve category" level. A reserve category can be a line of business such as commercial automobile liability, or it can be a particular type of claim such as construction defect. The reserves within a reserve category level are characterized as long-tail or short-tail. For long-tail business, it will generally be several years between the time the business is written and the time when all claims are settled. The Company’s long-tail exposures include general liability, professional liability, products liability, commercial automobile liability, and excess and umbrella. Short-tail exposures include property, commercial automobile physical damage, and equine mortality. The Company also reviews assumed reinsurance segments each quarter by treaty and treaty year which is comprised primarily of long-tailed business. To manage its Insurance Operations, the Company's insurance products target specific, defined groups of insureds with customized coverage to meet their needs. For further discussion about the Company’s business divisions, see “General – Business Segments – Insurance Operations” in Item 1 of Part I of this report. Each of the Company’s business divisions contain both long-tail and short-tail exposures. Every reserve category is analyzed by the Company’s actuaries each quarter. Management is responsible for the final determination of loss reserve selections.

 

In addition to the Company’s internal reserve analysis, independent external actuaries perform a full, detailed review of the reserves annually. The Company reviews both the internal and external actuarial analyses in determining its reserve position.

The actuarial methods used to project ultimate losses for both long-tail and short-tail reserve categories include, but are not limited to, the following:

Paid Development method;
Incurred Development method;
Expected Loss Ratio method;

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Bornhuetter-Ferguson method using premiums and paid loss;
Bornhuetter-Ferguson method using premiums and incurred loss; and
Average Loss method.

The Paid Development method estimates ultimate losses by reviewing paid loss patterns and applying them to accident years with further expected changes in paid loss. Selection of the paid loss pattern requires analysis of several factors including the impact of inflation on claims costs, the rate at which claims professionals make claim payments and close claims, the impact of judicial decisions, the impact of underwriting changes, the impact of large claim payments, and other factors. Claim cost inflation requires evaluation of changes in the cost of repairing or replacing property, changes in the cost of medical care, changes in the cost of wage replacement, judicial decisions, legislative changes, and other factors. Because this method assumes that losses are paid at a consistent rate, changes in any of these factors can impact the results. Since the method does not rely on case reserves, it is not directly influenced by changes in the adequacy of case reserves.

For many reserve categories, paid loss data for recent periods may be too immature or erratic for reliable loss projections. This situation often exists for long-tail exposures. In addition, changes in the factors described above may result in inconsistent payment patterns. Finally, estimating the paid loss pattern subsequent to the most mature point available in the data analyzed often involves considerable uncertainty for long-tail reserve categories.

The Incurred Development method is similar to the Paid Development method, but it uses case incurred losses instead of paid losses. Since this method uses more data (case reserves in addition to paid losses) than the Paid Development method, the incurred development patterns may be less variable than paid development patterns. However, selection of the incurred loss pattern requires analysis of all of the factors listed in the description of the Paid Development method. In addition, the inclusion of case reserves can lead to distortions if changes in case reserving practices have taken place and the use of case incurred losses may not eliminate the issues associated with estimating the incurred loss pattern subsequent to the most mature point available.

The Expected Loss Ratio method multiplies premiums by an expected loss ratio to produce ultimate loss estimates for each accident year. This method may be useful if loss development patterns are inconsistent, losses emerge very slowly, or there is relatively little loss history from which to estimate future losses. The selection of the expected loss ratio requires analysis of loss ratios from earlier accident years or pricing studies and analysis of inflationary trends, frequency trends, rate changes, underwriting changes, and other applicable factors.

The Bornhuetter-Ferguson method using premiums and paid losses is a combination of the Paid Development method and the Expected Loss Ratio method. This method normally determines expected loss ratios similar to the method used for the Expected Loss Ratio method and requires analysis of the same factors described above. The method assumes that only future losses will develop at the expected loss ratio level. The percent of paid loss to ultimate loss implied from the Paid Development method is used to determine what percentage of ultimate loss is yet to be paid. The use of the pattern from the Paid Development method requires consideration of all factors listed in the description of the Paid Development method. The estimate of losses yet to be paid is added to current paid losses to estimate the ultimate loss for each accident year. This method will react very slowly if actual ultimate loss ratios are different from expectations due to changes not accounted for by the Expected Loss Ratio calculation.

The Bornhuetter-Ferguson method using premiums and incurred losses is similar to the Bornhuetter-Ferguson method using premiums and paid losses except that it uses case incurred losses. The use of case incurred losses instead of paid losses can result in development patterns that are less variable than paid development patterns. However, the inclusion of case reserves can lead to distortions if changes in case reserving practices have taken place. The method requires analysis of all the factors that need to be reviewed for the Expected Loss Ratio and Incurred Development methods.

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The Average Loss method multiplies a projected number of ultimate incurred claims by an estimated ultimate average loss for each accident year to produce ultimate loss estimates. Since projections of the ultimate number of claims are often less variable than projections of ultimate loss, this method can provide more reliable results for reserve categories where loss development patterns are inconsistent or too variable to be relied on exclusively. In addition, this method can more directly account for changes in coverage that impact the number and size of claims. However, this method can be difficult to apply to situations where very large claims or a substantial number of unusual claims result in volatile average claim sizes. Projecting the ultimate number of claims requires analysis of several factors including the rate at which policyholders report claims to the Company, the impact of judicial decisions, the impact of underwriting changes, and other factors. Estimating the ultimate average loss requires analysis of the impact of large losses and claim cost trends based on changes in the cost of repairing or replacing property, changes in the cost of medical care, changes in the cost of wage replacement, judicial decisions, legislative changes, and other factors.

For many reserve categories, especially those that can be considered long-tail, a particular accident year may not have a sufficient volume of paid losses to produce a statistically reliable estimate of ultimate losses. In such a case, the Company’s actuaries typically assign more weight to the Incurred Development method than to the Paid Development method. As claims continue to settle and the volume of paid losses increases, the Company's actuaries may assign additional weight to the Paid Development method. For most of the Company’s reserve categories, even the case incurred losses for accident years that are early in the claim settlement process will not be of sufficient volume to produce a reliable estimate of ultimate losses. In these cases, the Company's actuaries will not assign any weight to the Paid and Incurred Development methods and will use the Bornhuetter-Ferguson and Expected Loss Ratio methods. For short-tail exposures, the Paid and Incurred Development methods can often be relied on sooner primarily because the Company’s history includes a sufficient number of accident years to cover the entire period over which paid and incurred losses are expected to change. However, the Company's actuaries may also assign weights to the Expected Loss Ratio, Bornhuetter-Ferguson, and Average Loss methods for short-tail exposures when developing estimates of ultimate losses.

Generally, reserves for long-tail lines give more weight to the Expected Loss Ratio method in the more recent immature years. As the accident years mature, weight shifts to the Bornhuetter-Ferguson methods and eventually to the Incurred and/or Paid Development method. Claims related to umbrella business are usually reported later than claims for other long-tail lines. For umbrella business, the shift from the Expected Loss Ratio method to the Bornhuetter-Ferguson methods to the Loss Development method may be more protracted than for most long-tailed lines. Reserves for short-tail lines tend to make the shift across methods more quickly than the long-tail lines.

For other more complex reserve categories where the above methods may not produce reliable indications, the Company's actuaries use additional methods tailored to the characteristics of the specific situation. Such reserve categories include losses from construction defect and A&E claims.

For construction defect losses, the Company’s actuaries organize losses by the year in which they were reported to develop an IBNR provision for development on known cases. To estimate losses from claims that have occurred but have not yet been reported to the Company, various extrapolation techniques are applied to the pattern of claims that have been reported to estimate the number of claims yet to be reported which will ultimately pay positive loss amounts. This process requires analysis of several factors including the rate at which policyholders report claims to the Company, the rate at which reported claims close with payment, the impact of judicial decisions, the impact of underwriting changes, and other factors. An estimated average claim size is determined from past experience and applied to the estimated number of unreported claims to estimate reserves for these claims.

Establishing reserves for A&E and other mass tort claims involves considerably more judgment than other types of claims due to factors including, but not limited to, inconsistent court decisions, bankruptcy filings as a result of asbestos-related liabilities, and judicial interpretations that often expand theories of recovery and broaden the scope of coverage. The insurance industry continues to receive a substantial number of asbestos-related bodily injury claims, with an increasing focus being directed toward other parties, including installers of products containing asbestos rather than against asbestos manufacturers. This shift has resulted in significant insurance coverage litigation implicating applicable coverage defenses or determinations, if any, including but not limited to, determinations as to whether or not an asbestos-related bodily injury claim is subject to aggregate limits of liability found in most comprehensive general liability policies. The Company continues to closely monitor its asbestos exposure and make adjustments where they are warranted.

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Reserve analyses performed by the Company’s internal and external actuaries result in actuarial point estimates. The results of the detailed reserve reviews were summarized and discussed with the Company’s senior management to determine Management's best estimate of reserves. Management considered many factors in making this decision. The factors included, but were not limited to, the historical pattern and volatility of the actuarial indications, the sensitivity of the actuarial indications to changes in paid and incurred loss patterns, the consistency of claims handling processes, the consistency of case reserving practices, changes in the Company’s pricing and underwriting, and overall pricing and underwriting trends in the insurance market.

Management’s best estimate at December 31, 2023 was recorded as the loss reserve. Management’s best estimate is as of a particular point in time and is based upon known facts, the Company’s actuarial analyses, current law, and the Company’s judgment. This resulted in carried gross and net reserves of $850.6 million and $777.8 million, respectively, as of December 31, 2023. A breakout of the Company’s gross and net reserves as of December 31, 2023 is as follows:

 

 

 

Gross Reserves

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Case

 

 

IBNR (1)

 

 

Total

 

Penn-America

 

$

128,404

 

 

$

280,316

 

 

$

408,720

 

Non-Core Operations

 

 

118,111

 

 

 

323,768

 

 

 

441,879

 

Total

 

$

246,515

 

 

$

604,084

 

 

$

850,599

 

 

 

 

Net Reserves (2)

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Case

 

 

IBNR (1)

 

 

Total

 

Penn-America

 

$

127,267

 

 

$

271,118

 

 

$

398,385

 

Non-Core Operations

 

 

84,564

 

 

 

294,821

 

 

 

379,385

 

Total

 

$

211,831

 

 

$

565,939

 

 

$

777,770

 

 

(1)
Losses incurred but not reported, including the expected future emergence of case reserves.
(2)
Does not include reinsurance receivables on paid losses.

The Company regularly reviews these estimates and, based on new developments and information, includes adjustments of the estimated ultimate liability in the operating results for the periods in which the adjustments are made. The establishment of losses and loss adjustment expense reserves makes no provision for the possible broadening of coverage by legislative action or judicial interpretation, or the emergence of new types of losses not sufficiently represented in the Company’s historical experience or that cannot yet be quantified or estimated. The Company regularly analyzes its reserves and reviews reserving methodologies so that future adjustments to prior accident year reserves can be minimized. However, given the complexity of this process, reserves require continual updates and the ultimate liability may be higher or lower than previously indicated. Changes in estimates for losses and loss adjustment expense reserves are recorded in the period that the change in these estimates is made. See Note 12 to the consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for details concerning the changes in the estimate for incurred losses and loss adjustment expenses related to prior accident years.

 

The detailed reserve analyses that the Company’s internal and external actuaries complete use a variety of generally accepted actuarial methods and techniques to produce a number of estimates of ultimate loss. The Company determines its best estimate of ultimate loss by reviewing the various estimates provided by its actuaries and other relevant information. The reserve estimate is the difference between the estimated ultimate loss and the losses paid to date. The difference between the estimated ultimate loss and the case incurred loss (paid loss plus case reserve) is considered to be IBNR which includes a provision for development on known cases as well as a provision for claims that have occurred but have not yet been reported to the Company.

In light of the many uncertainties associated with establishing the estimates and making the assumptions necessary to establish reserve levels, the Company reviews its reserve estimates on a regular basis and makes adjustments in the period that the need for such adjustments is determined.

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The key assumptions fundamental to the reserving process are often different for various reserve categories and accident years. Some of these assumptions are explicit assumptions that are required of a particular method, but most of the assumptions are implicit and cannot be precisely quantified. An example of an explicit assumption is the pattern employed in the Paid Development method. However, the assumed pattern is itself based on several implicit assumptions such as the impact of inflation on medical costs and the rate at which claim professionals close claims. Loss frequency is a measure of the number of claims per unit of insured exposure, and loss severity is a measure of the average size of claims. Each reserve category has an implicit frequency and severity for each accident year as a result of the various assumptions made.

Previous reserve analyses have resulted in the Company’s identification of information and trends that have caused it to increase or decrease frequency and severity assumptions in prior periods and could lead to the identification of a need for additional material changes in losses and loss adjustment expense reserves, which could materially affect results of operations, equity, business and insurer financial strength and debt ratings. Factors affecting loss frequency include, but are not limited to, the effectiveness of loss controls and safety programs and changes in economic activity or weather patterns. Factors affecting loss severity include, but are not limited to, changes in policy limits and deductibles, rate of inflation, and judicial interpretations. Another factor affecting estimates of loss frequency and severity is the loss reporting lag, which is the period of time between the occurrence of a loss and the date the loss is reported to the Company. The length of the loss reporting lag affects the Company’s ability to accurately predict loss frequency (loss frequencies are more predictable for short-tail lines) as well as the amount of reserves needed for IBNR.

If the actual levels of loss frequency and severity are higher or lower than expected, the ultimate losses will be different than Management’s best estimate. For most of its reserve categories, the Company believes that frequency can be predicted with greater accuracy than severity. Therefore, the Company believes Management’s best estimate is more likely influenced by changes in severity than frequency. The following table, which the Company believes reflects a reasonable range of variability around its best estimate based on historical loss experience and Management’s judgment, reflects the impact of changes (which could be favorable or unfavorable) in frequency and severity on the Company’s current accident year net loss estimate of $279.6 million for claims occurring during the year ended December 31, 2023:

 

 

 

 

 

Severity Change

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

 

 

-10%

 

 

-5%

 

 

0%

 

 

5%

 

 

10%

 

Frequency Change

 

-5%

 

 

(40,543

)

 

 

(27,262

)

 

 

(13,980

)

 

 

(699

)

 

 

12,582

 

 

 

-3%

 

 

(35,510

)

 

 

(21,949

)

 

 

(8,388

)

 

 

5,173

 

 

 

18,734

 

 

 

-2%

 

 

(32,994

)

 

 

(19,293

)

 

 

(5,592

)

 

 

8,109

 

 

 

21,810

 

 

 

-1%

 

 

(30,477

)

 

 

(16,637

)

 

 

(2,796

)

 

 

11,045

 

 

 

24,885

 

 

 

0%

 

 

(27,961

)

 

 

(13,980

)

 

 

 

 

 

13,980

 

 

 

27,961

 

 

 

1%

 

 

(25,444

)

 

 

(11,324

)

 

 

2,796

 

 

 

16,916

 

 

 

31,037

 

 

 

2%

 

 

(22,928

)

 

 

(8,668

)

 

 

5,592

 

 

 

19,852

 

 

 

34,112

 

 

 

3%

 

 

(20,411

)

 

 

(6,012

)

 

 

8,388

 

 

 

22,788

 

 

 

37,188

 

 

 

5%

 

 

(15,378

)

 

 

(699

)

 

 

13,980

 

 

 

28,660

 

 

 

43,339

 

 

The Company’s net reserves for losses and loss adjustment expenses of $777.8 million as of December 31, 2023 relate to multiple accident years. Therefore, the impact of changes in frequency and severity for more than one accident year could be higher or lower than the amounts reflected above.

Recoverability of Reinsurance Receivables

The Company regularly reviews the collectability of its reinsurance receivables, and includes adjustments resulting from this review in earnings in the period in which the adjustment arises. An allowance for expected credit losses for reinsurance receivables is recognized based upon the Company’s ongoing review of key aspects of amounts outstanding, including but not limited to, length of collection periods, disputes, applicable coverage defenses, insolvent reinsurers, financial strength of solvent reinsurers based on AM Best Ratings and other relevant factors. Changes in loss reserves can also affect the valuation of reinsurance receivables if the change is related to loss reserves that are ceded to reinsurers. Certain amounts may be uncollectible if the Company’s reinsurers dispute a loss or if the reinsurer is unable to pay. If its reinsurers do not pay, the Company remains legally obligated to pay the loss.

See Note 10 of the notes to consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for further information surrounding the Company’s reinsurance receivable balances and collectability as of December 31, 2023 and 2022. For a listing of the ten reinsurers for which the Company has the largest reinsurance asset amounts as of December 31, 2023, see “Reinsurance of Underwriting Risk” in Item 1 of Part I of this report.

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Investments

 

The carrying amount of the Company’s investments approximates their fair value. The Company regularly performs various analytical valuation procedures with respect to investments, including reviewing each fixed maturity security in an unrealized loss position to determine whether the decline in fair value below amortized cost basis has resulted from a credit loss or other factors, such as changes in interest rates. In assessing whether a credit loss exists, the Company compares the present value of the cash flows expected to be collected from the security to the amortized cost basis of the security. If the present value of the cash flows expected to be collected is less than the amortized cost basis of the security, a credit loss exists and an allowance for expected credit losses is recorded. Subsequent changes in the allowances are recorded in the period of change as either credit loss expense or reversal of credit loss expense. Any impairments related to factors other than credit losses or the intent to sell are recorded through other comprehensive income, net of taxes. During its review, the Company considers credit rating, market price, and issuer specific financial information, among other factors, to assess the likelihood of collection of all principal and interest as contractually due. See Note 5 of the notes to consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for the specific methodologies and significant assumptions used by asset class as well as an analysis of the Company’s securities with gross unrealized losses as of December 31, 2023 and 2022.

Fair Value Measurements

The Company categorizes its invested assets that are accounted for at fair value in the consolidated statements into a fair value hierarchy. The fair value hierarchy is directly related to the amount of subjectivity associated with the inputs utilized to determine the fair value of these assets. The reported value of financial instruments not carried at fair value, principally cash and cash equivalents, approximate fair value. See Note 7 of the notes to the consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for further information about the fair value hierarchy and the Company’s assets that are accounted for at fair value.

Goodwill and Intangible Assets

The Company tests for impairment of goodwill at least annually and more frequently as circumstances warrant in accordance with applicable accounting guidance. Accounting guidance allows for the testing of goodwill for impairment using both qualitative and quantitative factors. Impairment of goodwill is recognized only if the carrying amount of the reporting unit, including goodwill, exceeds the fair value of the reporting unit. The amount of the impairment loss would be equal to the excess carrying value of the goodwill over the implied fair value of the reporting unit goodwill.

Impairment of intangible assets with indefinite useful lives is tested at least annually and more frequently as circumstances warrant in accordance with applicable accounting guidance. Accounting guidance allows for the testing of intangible assets for impairment using both qualitative and quantitative factors. Impairment of indefinite lived intangible assets is recognized only if the carrying amount of the intangible assets exceeds the fair value of said assets. The amount of the impairment loss would be equal to the excess carrying value of the assets over the fair value of said assets.

Intangible assets that are not deemed to have an indefinite useful life are amortized over their estimated useful lives. The carrying amounts of definite lived intangible assets are regularly reviewed for indicators of impairment in accordance with applicable accounting guidance. Impairment is recognized only if the carrying amount of the intangible asset is in excess of its undiscounted projected cash flows. The impairment is measured as the difference between the carrying amount and the estimated fair value of the asset.

See Note 8 of the notes to the consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for more details concerning the Company’s goodwill and intangible assets as well as the result of its impairment testing.

Deferred Acquisition Costs

The costs of acquiring new and renewal insurance and reinsurance contracts primarily include commissions, premium taxes and certain other costs that are directly related to the successful acquisition of new and renewal insurance and reinsurance contracts. The excess of the Company’s costs of acquiring new and renewal insurance and reinsurance contracts over the related ceding commissions earned from reinsurers is capitalized as deferred acquisition costs and amortized over the period in which the related premiums are earned.

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In accordance with accounting guidance for insurance enterprises, the method followed in computing such amounts limits them to amounts recoverable from premium to be earned, related investment income, losses and loss adjustment expenses, and certain other costs expected to be incurred as the premium is earned. A premium deficiency is recognized if the sum of expected losses and loss adjustment expenses and unamortized acquisition costs exceeds related unearned premium. This evaluation is done at a distribution and product line/treaty level. Any future expected loss on the related unearned premium is recorded first by impairing the unamortized acquisition costs on the related unearned premium followed by an increase to losses and loss adjustment expense reserves on additional expected loss in excess of unamortized acquisition costs. The Company calculates deferred acquisition costs for Penn-America and Non-Core Operations separately by distribution lines. For reinsurance treaties, the Company calculates deferred acquisition costs separately for each treaty.

Taxation

The Company provides for income taxes in accordance with applicable accounting guidance. The Company’s deferred tax assets and liabilities primarily result from temporary differences between the amounts recorded in the consolidated financial statements and the tax basis of the Company’s assets and liabilities.

At each balance sheet date, management assesses the need to establish a valuation allowance that reduces deferred tax assets when it is more likely than not that all, or some portion, of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. A valuation allowance would be based on all available information including the Company’s assessment of uncertain tax positions and projections of future taxable income from each tax-paying component in each jurisdiction, principally derived from business plans and available tax planning strategies.

As of December 31, 2023, the Company had a deferred tax asset of approximately $5.6 million related to net unrealized losses on fixed maturity available for sale securities. In the assessment of the future realizability of this deferred tax asset, management considered tax planning strategies and concluded that unrealized losses were caused by factors other than credit loss, and the Company have the intent and ability to hold these securities to recovery and collect all of the contractual cash flows.

There are no valuation allowances as of December 31, 2023 and 2022. The deferred tax asset balance is analyzed regularly by management. This assessment requires significant judgment and considers, among other matters, the nature, frequency and severity of current and cumulative losses, forecasts of future profitability, the duration of carryforward periods, and tax planning strategies and/or actions. Based on these analyses, the Company has determined that its deferred tax asset is recoverable. Projections of future taxable income incorporate several assumptions of future business and operations that are apt to differ from actual experience. If, in the future, the Company’s assumptions and estimates that resulted in the forecast of future taxable income for each tax-paying component prove to be incorrect, a valuation allowance may be required. This could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial condition, results of operations, and liquidity.

The Company applies a more likely than not recognition threshold for all tax uncertainties, only allowing the recognition of those tax benefits that have a greater than 50% likelihood of being sustained upon examination by relevant taxing authorities. Please see Note 11 of the notes to the consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for a discussion of the Company’s tax uncertainties.

 

Leases

 

The Company determines if an arrangement is a lease at inception. Leases with a term of 12 months or less are not recorded on the consolidated balance sheets. Lease right-of-use assets (“ROU”) and lease liabilities are included on the consolidated balance sheets.

 

Lease ROU assets and lease liabilities are recognized based on the present value of the future minimum lease payments over the lease term at the commencement date. The Company’s leases do not provide an implicit rate; therefore, the Company uses its incremental borrowing rate at the commencement date in determining the present value of future payments. The ROU asset is calculated using the initial lease liability amount, plus any lease payments made at or before the commencement date, minus any lease incentives received, plus any initial direct costs incurred. Lease expenses for minimum lease payments are recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term.

 

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The Company’s lease agreements may contain both lease and non-lease components which are accounted separately. The Company elected the practical expedient on not separating lease components from non-lease components for its equipment leases.

 

Rental income derived from subleases are recognized on a straight-line basis over the operating lease term.

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Business Segments

The Company manages the distribution of its core product offerings through its Penn-America segment (formerly known as Commercial Specialty). The Penn-America segment comprises the Company’s Insurance Operations, which currently includes the operations of United National Insurance Company, Diamond State Insurance Company, Penn-America Insurance Company, Penn-Star Insurance Company, Penn-Patriot Insurance Company, American Insurance Adjustment Agency, Inc., Collectibles Insurance Services, LLC, Global Indemnity Insurance Agency, LLC, and J.H. Ferguson & Associates, LLC. The Company also has a Non-Core Operations segment that contains lines of business that have been de-emphasized or are no longer being written.

The Company evaluates the performance of these segments based on gross and net written premiums, revenues in the form of net earned premiums, and expenses in the form of (1) net losses and loss adjustment expenses, (2) acquisition costs, and (3) other underwriting expenses.

 

During the fourth quarter of 2023, the Company restructured its insurance operations to strengthen its market presence and enhance GBLI's focus on core products and made the decision to manage the business through two segments, Penn-America and Non-Core Operations. Management believes these segments allow users of the Company’s financial statements to better understand the Company's performance, better assess prospects for future net cash flows, and make more informed judgments about the Company as a whole. Segment results for prior years have been revised to reflect these changes.

See “Business Segments” in Item 1 of Part I of this report for a description of the Company’s segments.

Results of Operations

 

The Company realized net income (loss) of $25.4 million, ($0.9) million, and $29.4 million during the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively. Excluding the gain from the sale of the Manufactured Home and Dwelling renewal rights in 2021 and the sale of the Company’s Farm, Ranch, & Stable renewal rights, net loss(1) would have been $17.3 million in 2022 and net income would have been $12.9 million in 2021.

Net investment income was $55.4 million, $27.6 million, and $37.0 million for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively. Excluding investment income from alternative investments, investment income was $51.0 million, $33.6 million and $26.2 million during the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively. The increase in investment income in 2023 compared to 2022 is mainly due to increases in book yield and good performance from alternative investments. Book yield for the fixed income investment portfolio was 4.0% at December 31, 2023 compared to 2.2% at December 31, 2021.

The Company's primary business, Penn-America, generated strong accident year results. Penn-America's accident year underwriting income(2) was $18.5 million, $13.5 million, and $14.1 million for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively, and the accident year combined ratio(2) was 95.2%, 96.5%, and 95.8% for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively.

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The following table summarizes the Company’s results for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021:

 

 

 

Years Ended
December 31,

 

 

%

 

 

Years Ended
December 31,

 

 

%

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

Change

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

 

Change

 

Gross written premiums

 

$

416,397

 

 

$

727,603

 

 

 

(42.8

%)

 

$

727,603

 

 

$

682,122

 

 

 

6.7

%

Net written premiums

 

$

399,319

 

 

$

591,331

 

 

 

(32.5

%)

 

$

591,331

 

 

$

580,068

 

 

 

1.9

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net earned premiums

 

$

473,357

 

 

$

602,471

 

 

 

(21.4

%)

 

$

602,471

 

 

$

595,610

 

 

 

1.2

%

Other income

 

 

1,435

 

 

 

1,462

 

 

 

(1.8

%)

 

 

1,462

 

 

 

1,815

 

 

 

(19.4

%)

Total revenues

 

 

474,792

 

 

 

603,933

 

 

 

(21.4

%)

 

 

603,933

 

 

 

597,425

 

 

 

1.1

%

Losses and expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net losses and loss adjustment expenses

 

 

289,153

 

 

 

359,228

 

 

 

(19.5

%)

 

 

359,228

 

 

 

384,964

 

 

 

(6.7

%)

Acquisition costs and other underwriting expenses

 

 

182,617

 

 

 

236,381

 

 

 

(22.7

%)

 

 

236,381

 

 

 

222,841

 

 

 

6.1

%

Underwriting income (loss)

 

 

3,022

 

 

 

8,324

 

 

 

(63.7

%)

 

 

8,324

 

 

 

(10,380

)

 

 

(180.2

%)

Net investment income

 

 

55,444

 

 

 

27,627

 

 

 

100.7

%

 

 

27,627

 

 

 

37,020

 

 

 

(25.4

%)

Net realized investment gains (losses)

 

 

(2,107

)

 

 

(32,929

)

 

 

(93.6

%)

 

 

(32,929

)

 

 

15,887

 

 

NM

 

Other income

 

 

 

 

 

29,903

 

 

 

(100.0

%)

 

 

29,903

 

 

 

27,936

 

 

 

7.0

%

Corporate and other operating expenses

 

 

(23,383

)

 

 

(24,421

)

 

 

(4.3

%)

 

 

(24,421

)

 

 

(27,179

)

 

 

(10.1

%)

Interest expense

 

 

 

 

 

(3,004

)

 

 

(100.0

%)

 

 

(3,004

)

 

 

(10,481

)

 

 

(71.3

%)

Loss on extinguishment of debt

 

 

 

 

 

(3,529

)

 

 

(100.0

%)

 

 

(3,529

)

 

 

 

 

 

100.0

%

Income before income taxes

 

 

32,976

 

 

 

1,971

 

 

NM

 

 

 

1,971

 

 

 

32,803

 

 

 

(94.0

%)

Income tax expense

 

 

(7,547

)

 

 

(2,821

)

 

 

167.5

%

 

 

(2,821

)

 

 

(3,449

)

 

 

(18.2

%)

Net income (loss)

 

$

25,429

 

 

$

(850

)

 

NM

 

 

$

(850

)

 

$

29,354

 

 

 

(102.9

%)

Underwriting Ratios:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Loss ratio (3)

 

 

61.1

%

 

 

59.6

%

 

 

 

 

 

59.6

%

 

 

64.7

%

 

 

 

Expense ratio (4)

 

 

38.6

%

 

 

39.2

%

 

 

 

 

 

39.2

%

 

 

37.4

%

 

 

 

Combined ratio (5)

 

 

99.7

%

 

 

98.8

%

 

 

 

 

 

98.8

%

 

 

102.1

%

 

 

 

 

NM – not meaningful

 

(1)
Net income (loss) excluding the net gain on the sale of the Company’s Manufactured Home and Dwelling renewal rights and the Company's Farm, Ranch & Stable renewal rights of ($17.3) million and $12.9 million during the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively, is a non-GAAP measure which excludes the impact of gross proceeds of $30.0 million, impairments and expenses of $9.2 million, and tax expense of $4.4 million related to sale of Farm, Ranch & Stable renewal rights in 2022 and excludes the impact of gross proceeds of $28.0 million, impairments and expenses of $7.2 million, and tax expense of $4.4 million related to the sale of Manufactured Home and Dwelling renewal rights in 2021. The Company’s most directly comparable GAAP measure is net income (loss) of ($0.9) million, and $29.4 million during the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. The Company believes the non-GAAP measure is useful to investors when evaluating the Company's performance as trends may be obscured by this one time transaction. This non-GAAP measure should not be considered as a substitute for its most directly comparable GAAP measure and does not reflect the overall profitability of the Company.
(2)
Penn-America's accident year underwriting income of $18.5 million, $13.5 million, and $14.1 million for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively, is a non-GAAP measure which excludes the impact of prior accident year losses and loss adjustment expenses and prior accident year contingent commission expenses totaling $30.1 million, $2.9 million, and $1.6 million for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively. The Company's most directly comparable GAAP measure is the Penn-America's underwriting income (loss) of ($11.6) million, $10.6 million, and $12.5 million for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively. Penn-America's accident year combined ratio of 95.2%, 96.5%, and 95.8% for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively, is a non-GAAP ratio which excludes the impact of prior accident year losses and loss adjustment expenses and prior accident year contingent commission expenses totaling 8.4%, 0.8%, and 0.5% for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively. The Company's most directly comparable GAAP ratio is the Penn-America combined ratio of 103.6%, 97.4%, and 96.3% for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively. The Company believes the non-GAAP measures or ratios are useful to investors when evaluating the Company's underwriting performance as trends within Penn-America may be obscured by prior accident year adjustments. These non-GAAP measures or ratios should not be considered as a substitute for its most directly comparable GAAP measure or ratio and does not reflect the overall underwriting profitability of the Company.
(3)
The loss ratio is a GAAP financial measure that is generally viewed in the insurance industry as an indicator of underwriting profitability and is calculated by dividing net losses and loss adjustment expenses by net earned premiums.
(4)
The expense ratio is a GAAP financial measure that is calculated by dividing the sum of acquisition costs and other underwriting expenses by net earned premiums.
(5)
The combined ratio is a GAAP financial measure and is the sum of the Company’s loss and expense ratios.

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Selected Financial Data by Business Segment

Premiums

The following table summarizes the change in premium volume by business segment:

 

 

 

Years Ended
December 31,

 

 

%

 

 

Years Ended
December 31,

 

 

%

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

Change

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

 

Change

 

Gross written premiums (1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Penn-America

 

$

369,660

 

 

$

387,967

 

 

 

(4.7

%)

 

$

387,967

 

 

$

349,962

 

 

 

10.9

%

Non-Core Operations

 

 

46,737

 

 

 

339,636

 

 

 

(86.2

%)

 

 

339,636

 

 

 

332,160

 

 

 

2.3

%

Total gross written premiums

 

$

416,397

 

 

$

727,603

 

 

 

(42.8

%)

 

$

727,603

 

 

$

682,122

 

 

 

6.7

%

Ceded premiums written

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Penn-America

 

$

12,864

 

 

$

17,661

 

 

 

(27.2

%)

 

$

17,661

 

 

$

21,303

 

 

 

(17.1

%)

Non-Core Operations

 

 

4,214

 

 

 

118,611

 

 

 

(96.4

%)

 

 

118,611

 

 

 

80,751

 

 

 

46.9

%

Total ceded premiums written

 

$

17,078

 

 

$

136,272

 

 

 

(87.5

%)

 

$

136,272

 

 

$

102,054

 

 

 

33.5

%

Net written premiums (2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Penn-America

 

$

356,796

 

 

$

370,306

 

 

 

(3.6

%)

 

$

370,306

 

 

$

328,659

 

 

 

12.7

%

Non-Core Operations

 

 

42,523

 

 

 

221,025

 

 

 

(80.8

%)

 

 

221,025

 

 

 

251,409

 

 

 

(12.1

%)

Total net written premiums

 

$

399,319

 

 

$

591,331

 

 

 

(32.5

%)

 

$

591,331

 

 

$

580,068

 

 

 

1.9

%

Net earned premiums

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Penn-America

 

$

354,518

 

 

$

359,597

 

 

 

(1.4

%)

 

$

359,597

 

 

$

308,676

 

 

 

16.5

%

Non-Core Operations

 

 

118,839

 

 

 

242,874

 

 

 

(51.1

%)

 

 

242,874

 

 

 

286,934

 

 

 

(15.4

%)

Total net earned premiums

 

$

473,357

 

 

$

602,471

 

 

 

(21.4

%)

 

$

602,471

 

 

$

595,610

 

 

 

1.2

%

 

(1)
Gross written premiums represent the amount received or to be received for insurance policies written without reduction for reinsurance costs or other deductions.
(2)
Net written premiums equal gross written premiums less ceded premiums written.
(3)
External business only, excluding business assumed from affiliates.

 

Gross written premiums decreased by 42.8% for year ended December 31, 2023 as compared to 2022. The decrease in gross written premiums is mainly due to a reduction in premiums within Non-Core Operations for lines of business that have been de-emphasized or no longer written. In addition, within Penn-America, the gross written premiums for Programs decreased primarily due to actions taken to improve underwriting results through increased rates and form changes. These reductions in premiums were partially offset by continued growth in Penn-America's Wholesale Commercial, InsurTech, and Assumed Reinsurance divisions. The growth in Wholesale Commercial is driven by new agency appointments, strong rate increases as well as exposure growth in both property and general liability. The growth in InsurTech is primarily due to new agent appointments and focused marketing efforts. The growth in Assumed Reinsurance is primarily due to new treaties assumed in 2023.

 

Gross written premiums increased by 6.7% for year ended December 31, 2022 as compared to 2021. The increase in gross written premiums is mainly due to the continued growth from existing wholesale agent relationships and increased pricing from both rate and exposure growth within Penn-America. The growth in Non-Core Operations' premiums is primarily due to organic growth of existing casualty treaties partially offset by a reduction in premiums due to lines of business that have been de-emphasized or no longer written.

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Net Retention

The ratio of net written premiums to gross written premiums is referred to as the Company’s net premium retention. The Company’s net premium retention is summarized by segments as follows:

 

 

 

Years Ended
December 31,

 

 

 

 

 

Years Ended
December 31,

 

 

 

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

Change

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

 

Change

 

Penn-America

 

 

96.5

%

 

 

95.4

%

 

 

1.1

 

 

 

95.4

%

 

 

93.9

%

 

 

1.5

 

Non-Core Operations

 

 

91.0

%

 

 

65.1

%

 

 

25.9

 

 

 

65.1

%

 

 

75.7

%

 

 

(10.6

)

Total

 

 

95.9

%

 

 

81.3

%

 

 

14.6

 

 

 

81.3

%

 

 

85.0

%

 

 

(3.7

)

 

The net premium retention for the year ended December 31, 2023 increased by 14.6 points as compared to 2022. Retention has increased due to less impact from cessions of the manufactured home and dwelling business which was sold in 2021 and the sale of the Farm, Ranch and Stable business in 2022. Quota share reinsurance agreements were in place. All of the Company's manufactured and dwelling homes policies, except for Florida and Louisiana which have been fully run-off, were ceded to American Family Mutual Insurance Company in 2022 and all policies written with an effective date of August 8, 2022 and later within the Company's Farm, Ranch & Stable business were ceded to Everett Cash Mutual Insurance Company. As a result, the net premium retention for the year ended December 31, 2022 decreased by 3.7 points as compared to 2021.

See Note 2 of the notes to the consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for additional information on the sale of renewal rights related to the Company’s manufactured and dwelling homes business and the Company's Farm, Ranch & Stable business.

Net Earned Premiums

 

Net earned premiums within the Penn-America segment decreased by 1.4% for the year ended December 31, 2023 as compared to the same period in 2022. Penn-America experienced continued growth in earned premiums within its Wholesale Commercial, InsurTech, and Assumed Reinsurance divisions due to new agency appointments, strong rate increases, exposure growth, and focused marketing efforts as well as the assumption of several new treaties. This growth was offset by a decrease in net earned premiums for Programs as a result of actions taken to improve underwriting results through increased rates and form changes. Property net earned premiums were $140.5 million and $142.4 million for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. Casualty net earned premiums were $214.0 million and $217.2 million for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

 

Net earned premiums within the Penn-America segment increased by 16.5% for the year ended December 31, 2022 as compared to the same period in 2021. The increase in net earned premiums was primarily due to a growth in premiums written as a result of organic growth from existing agents and pricing increases. Property net earned premiums were $142.4 million and $138.6 million for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Casualty net earned premiums were $217.2 million and $170.1 million for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.

Net earned premiums within the Non-Core Operations segment decreased by 51.1% for the year ended December 31, 2023 as compared to the same period in 2022 primarily due to the sale of renewal rights related to the Company's Farm, Ranch & Stable business on August 8, 2022, non-renewal of a casualty treaty, and the reduction of premiums written for lines of business that have been de-emphasized or no longer written. Property net earned premiums were $14.2 million and $64.6 million for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. Casualty net earned premiums were $104.6 million and $178.3 million for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

 

Net earned premiums within the Non-Core Operations segment decreased by 15.4% for the year ended December 31, 2022 as compared to the same period in 2021 primarily due to the sale of the renewal rights related to the Company’s manufactured and dwelling homes business on October 26, 2021 and the reduction of premiums written for lines of business that have been de-emphasized or no longer written partially offset by organic growth of an existing casualty treaty. Property net earned premiums were $64.6 million and $164.4 million for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Casualty net earned premiums were $178.3 million and $122.6 million for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.

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Underwriting Results

Penn-America

Penn-America's accident year underwriting income(1) was $18.5 million, $13.5 million, and $14.1 million for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively. Results for 2023 include $29.9 million of strengthening of prior accident year reserves. Penn-America has taken actions to improve underwriting results through increased rates and form changes.

The components of income (loss) from the Company’s Penn-America segment and corresponding underwriting ratios are as follows:

 

 

 

Years Ended
December 31,

 

 

%

 

 

Years Ended
December 31,

 

 

%

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

Change

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

 

Change

 

Gross written premiums

 

$

369,660

 

 

$

387,967

 

 

 

(4.7

%)

 

$

387,967

 

 

$

349,962

 

 

 

10.9

%

Net written premiums

 

$

356,796

 

 

$

370,306

 

 

 

(3.6

%)

 

$

370,306

 

 

$

328,659

 

 

 

12.7

%

Net earned premiums

 

$

354,518

 

 

$

359,597

 

 

 

(1.4

%)

 

$

359,597

 

 

$

308,676

 

 

 

16.5

%

Other income

 

$

1,257

 

 

$

1,029

 

 

 

22.2

%

 

$

1,029

 

 

$

1,028

 

 

 

0.1

%

Total revenues

 

 

355,775

 

 

 

360,626

 

 

 

(1.3

%)

 

 

360,626

 

 

 

309,704

 

 

 

16.4

%

Losses and expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net losses and loss adjustment expenses

 

 

233,239

 

 

 

214,854

 

 

 

8.6

%

 

 

214,854

 

 

 

184,163

 

 

 

16.7

%

Acquisition costs and other underwriting expenses

 

 

134,155

 

 

 

135,145

 

 

 

(0.7

%)

 

 

135,145

 

 

 

113,038

 

 

 

19.6

%

Underwriting income (loss)

 

$

(11,619

)

 

$

10,627

 

 

 

(209.3

%)

 

$

10,627

 

 

$

12,503

 

 

 

(15.0

%)

 

 

 

Years Ended
December 31,

 

 

Point

 

 

Years Ended
December 31,

 

 

Point

 

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

Change

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

 

Change

 

Underwriting Ratios:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Loss ratio:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current accident year

 

 

57.4

%

 

 

59.0

%

 

 

(1.6

)

 

 

59.0

%

 

 

59.1

%

 

 

(0.1

)

Prior accident year

 

 

8.4

%

 

 

0.8

%

 

 

7.6

 

 

 

0.8

%

 

 

0.6

%

 

 

0.2

 

Calendar year loss ratio

 

 

65.8

%

 

 

59.8

%

 

 

6.0

 

 

 

59.8

%

 

 

59.7

%

 

 

0.1

 

Expense ratio

 

 

37.8

%

 

 

37.6

%

 

 

0.2

 

 

 

37.6

%

 

 

36.6

%

 

 

1.0

 

Combined ratio

 

 

103.6

%

 

 

97.4

%

 

 

6.2

 

 

 

97.4

%

 

 

96.3

%

 

 

1.1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accident year combined ratio (2)

 

 

95.2

%

 

 

96.5

%

 

 

 

 

 

96.5

%

 

 

95.8

%

 

 

 

(1)
Penn-America's accident year underwriting income of $18.5 million, $13.5 million, and $14.1 million for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively, is a non-GAAP measure which excludes the impact of prior accident year losses and loss adjustment expenses and prior accident year contingent commission expenses totaling $30.1 million, $2.9 million, and $1.6 million for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively. The Company's most directly comparable GAAP measure is the Penn-America's underwriting income (loss) of ($11.6) million, $10.6 million, and $12.5 million for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively. The Company believes the non-GAAP measures are useful to investors when evaluating the Company's underwriting performance as trends within Penn-America may be obscured by prior accident year adjustments. These non-GAAP measures should not be considered as a substitute for its most directly comparable GAAP measure and does not reflect the overall underwriting profitability of the Company.
(2)
The accident year combined ratio excludes the impact of prior accident year losses and loss adjustment expenses and prior accident year contingent commission expenses.

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Reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures and ratios

The table below reconciles the non-GAAP measures or ratios, which excludes the impact of prior accident year adjustments, to its most directly comparable GAAP measure or ratio. The Company believes the non-GAAP measures or ratios are useful to investors when evaluating the Company's underwriting performance as trends in the Company's Penn-America segment may be obscured by prior accident year adjustments. These non-GAAP measures or ratios should not be considered as a substitute for its most directly comparable GAAP measure or ratio and does not reflect the overall underwriting profitability of the Company.

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

 

 

Losses

 

 

Loss
Ratio

 

 

Losses

 

 

Loss
Ratio

 

 

Losses

 

 

Loss
Ratio

 

Property

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non catastrophe property losses and ratio excluding the effect of prior accident year (1)

 

$

61,231

 

 

 

43.6

%

 

$

71,907

 

 

 

50.5

%

 

$

64,409

 

 

 

46.5

%

Effect of prior accident year

 

 

(2,143

)

 

 

(1.5

%)

 

 

(3,624

)

 

 

(2.5

%)

 

 

2,794

 

 

 

2.0

%

Non catastrophe property losses and ratio (2)

 

$

59,088

 

 

 

42.1

%

 

$

68,283

 

 

 

48.0

%

 

$

67,203

 

 

 

48.5

%

Catastrophe losses and ratio excluding the effect of prior accident year (1)

 

$

13,839

 

 

 

9.8

%

 

$

10,979

 

 

 

7.7

%

 

$

18,970

 

 

 

13.7

%

Effect of prior accident year

 

 

3,400

 

 

 

2.4

%

 

 

431

 

 

 

0.3

%

 

 

254

 

 

 

0.2

%

Catastrophe losses and ratio (2)

 

$

17,239

 

 

 

12.2

%

 

$

11,410

 

 

 

8.0

%

 

$

19,224

 

 

 

13.9

%

Total property losses and ratio excluding the effect of prior accident year (1)

 

$

75,070

 

 

 

53.4

%

 

$

82,886

 

 

 

58.2

%

 

$

83,379

 

 

 

60.2

%

Effect of prior accident year

 

 

1,257

 

 

 

0.9

%

 

 

(3,193

)

 

 

(2.2

%)

 

 

3,048

 

 

 

2.2

%

Total property losses and ratio (2)

 

$

76,327

 

 

 

54.3

%

 

$

79,693

 

 

 

56.0

%

 

$

86,427

 

 

 

62.4

%

Casualty

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Casualty losses and ratio excluding the effect of prior accident year (1)

 

$

128,289

 

 

 

59.9

%

 

$

129,172

 

 

 

59.5

%

 

$

98,936

 

 

 

58.2

%

Effect of prior accident year

 

 

28,623

 

 

 

13.4

%

 

 

5,989

 

 

 

2.8

%

 

 

(1,200

)

 

 

(0.7

%)

Total Casualty losses and ratio (2)

 

$

156,912

 

 

 

73.3

%

 

$

135,161

 

 

 

62.3

%

 

$

97,736

 

 

 

57.5

%

Total

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total net losses and loss adjustment expense and total loss ratio excluding the effect of prior accident year (1)

 

$

203,359

 

 

 

57.4

%

 

$

212,058

 

 

 

59.0

%

 

$

182,315

 

 

 

59.1

%

Effect of prior accident year

 

 

29,880

 

 

 

8.4

%

 

 

2,796

 

 

 

0.8

%

 

 

1,848

 

 

 

0.6

%

Total net losses and loss adjustment expense and total loss ratio (2)

 

$

233,239

 

 

 

65.8

%

 

$

214,854

 

 

 

59.8

%

 

$

184,163

 

 

 

59.7

%

 

(1)
Non-GAAP measure / ratio
(2)
Most directly comparable GAAP measure / ratio

Premiums

See “Result of Operations” above for a discussion on consolidated premiums.

Other Income

Other income was $1.3 million, $1.0 million, and $1.0 million for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively. Other income is primarily comprised of fee income.

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Loss Ratio

The current accident year losses and loss ratio is summarized as follows:

 

 

 

Years Ended
December 31,

 

 

%

 

 

Years Ended
December 31,

 

 

%

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

Change

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

 

Change

 

Property losses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non-catastrophe

 

$

61,231

 

 

$

71,907

 

 

 

(14.8

%)

 

$

71,907

 

 

$

64,409

 

 

 

11.6

%

Catastrophe

 

 

13,839

 

 

 

10,979

 

 

 

26.0

%

 

 

10,979

 

 

 

18,970

 

 

 

(42.1

%)

Property losses

 

 

75,070

 

 

 

82,886

 

 

 

(9.4

%)

 

 

82,886

 

 

 

83,379

 

 

 

(0.6

%)

Casualty losses

 

 

128,289

 

 

 

129,172

 

 

 

(0.7

%)

 

 

129,172

 

 

 

98,936

 

 

 

30.6

%

Total accident year losses

 

$

203,359

 

 

$

212,058

 

 

 

(4.1

%)

 

$

212,058

 

 

$

182,315

 

 

 

16.3

%

 

 

 

Years Ended
December 31,

 

 

Point

 

 

Years Ended
December 31,

 

 

Point

 

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

Change

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

 

Change

 

Current accident year loss ratio:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Property

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non-catastrophe

 

 

43.6

%

 

 

50.5

%

 

 

(6.9

)

 

 

50.5

%

 

 

46.5

%

 

 

4.0

 

Catastrophe

 

 

9.8

%

 

 

7.7

%

 

 

2.1

 

 

 

7.7

%

 

 

13.7

%

 

 

(6.0

)

Property loss ratio

 

 

53.4

%

 

 

58.2

%

 

 

(4.8

)

 

 

58.2

%

 

 

60.2

%

 

 

(2.0

)

Casualty loss ratio

 

 

59.9

%

 

 

59.5

%

 

 

0.4

 

 

 

59.5

%

 

 

58.2

%

 

 

1.3

 

Total accident year loss ratio

 

 

57.4

%

 

 

59.0

%

 

 

(1.6

)

 

 

59.0

%

 

 

59.1

%

 

 

(0.1

)

 

The current accident year property non-catastrophe loss ratio for 2023 improved by 6.9 points compared to 2022 recognizing lower claims frequency and severity. The current accident year property non-catastrophe loss ratio for 2022 increased by 4.0 points compared to 2021 mainly due to higher claims severity.

 

The current accident year property catastrophe loss ratio for 2023 increased by 2.1 points compared to 2022 reflecting higher claims frequency. The current accident year property catastrophe loss ratio for 2022 improved by 6.0 points compared to 2021 due to lower claims frequency and severity.

The current accident year casualty loss ratio for 2023 increased by 0.4 points compared to 2022 recognizing higher claims severity. The current accident year casualty loss ratio for 2022 increased by 1.3 points compared to 2021 due to higher claims severity.

The calendar year loss ratio for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021 includes an increase of $29.9 million, or 8.4%, an increase of $2.8 million or 0.8%, and an increase of $1.8 million or 0.6%, respectively, related to reserve development on prior accident years. Please see Note 12 of the notes to the consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for further discussion on prior accident year development.

Expense Ratios

The expense ratio increased 0.2 points from 37.6% for 2022 to 37.8% for 2023 primarily due to a change in the mix of business where Penn-America wrote a slightly higher amount of admitted business.

The expense ratio increased 1.0 points from 36.6% for 2021 to 37.6% for 2022 primarily due to higher compensation and advertising costs.

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Non-Core Operations

The components of income (loss) from the Company’s Non-Core Operations segment and corresponding underwriting ratios are as follows:

 

 

 

Years Ended
December 31,

 

 

%

 

 

Years Ended
December 31,

 

 

%

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

Change

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

 

Change

 

Gross written premiums

 

$

46,737

 

 

$

339,636

 

 

 

(86.2

%)

 

$

339,636

 

 

$

332,160

 

 

 

2.3

%

Net written premiums

 

$

42,523

 

 

$

221,025

 

 

 

(80.8

%)

 

$

221,025

 

 

$

251,409

 

 

 

(12.1

%)

Net earned premiums

 

$

118,839

 

 

$

242,874

 

 

 

(51.1

%)

 

$

242,874

 

 

$

286,934

 

 

 

(15.4

%)

Other income

 

 

178

 

 

 

433

 

 

 

(58.9

%)

 

 

433

 

 

 

787

 

 

 

(45.0

%)

Total revenues

 

 

119,017

 

 

 

243,307

 

 

 

(51.1

%)

 

 

243,307

 

 

 

287,721

 

 

 

(15.4

%)

Losses and expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net losses and loss adjustment expenses

 

 

55,914

 

 

 

144,374

 

 

 

(61.3

%)

 

 

144,374

 

 

 

200,801

 

 

 

(28.1

%)

Acquisition costs and other underwriting expenses

 

 

48,462

 

 

 

101,236

 

 

 

(52.1

%)

 

 

101,236

 

 

 

109,803

 

 

 

(7.8

%)

Underwriting income (loss)

 

$

14,641

 

 

$

(2,303

)

 

NM

 

 

$

(2,303

)

 

$

(22,883

)

 

 

(89.9

%)

 

 

 

Years Ended
December 31,

 

 

Point

 

 

Years Ended
December 31,

 

 

Point

 

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

Change

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

 

Change

 

Underwriting Ratios:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Loss ratio:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current accident year

 

 

64.2

%

 

 

63.9

%

 

 

0.3

 

 

 

63.9

%

 

 

67.6

%

 

 

(3.7

)

Prior accident year

 

 

(17.1

%)

 

 

(4.5

%)

 

 

(12.6

)

 

 

(4.5

%)

 

 

2.4

%

 

 

(6.9

)

Calendar year loss ratio

 

 

47.1

%

 

 

59.4

%

 

 

(12.3

)

 

 

59.4

%

 

 

70.0

%

 

 

(10.6

)

Expense ratio

 

 

40.8

%

 

 

41.7

%

 

 

(0.9

)

 

 

41.7

%

 

 

38.3

%

 

 

3.4

 

Combined ratio

 

 

87.9

%

 

 

101.1

%

 

 

(13.2

)

 

 

101.1

%

 

 

108.3

%

 

 

(7.2

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accident year combined ratio (1)

 

 

103.7

%

 

 

104.1

%

 

 

 

 

 

104.1

%

 

 

105.8

%

 

 

 

 

(1)
The accident year combined ratio excludes the impact of prior accident year losses and loss adjustment expenses and prior accident year contingent commission expenses.

 

NM - not meaningful

 

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Reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures and ratios

The table below reconciles the non-GAAP measures or ratios, which excludes the impact of prior accident year adjustments, to its most directly comparable GAAP measure or ratio. The Company believes the non-GAAP measures or ratios are useful to investors when evaluating the Company's underwriting performance as trends in the Company's Non-Core Operations segment may be obscured by prior accident year adjustments. These non-GAAP measures or ratios should not be considered as a substitute for its most directly comparable GAAP measure or ratio and does not reflect the overall underwriting profitability of the Company.

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

 

 

Losses

 

 

Loss
Ratio

 

 

Losses

 

 

Loss
Ratio

 

 

Losses

 

 

Loss
Ratio

 

Property

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non catastrophe property losses and ratio excluding the effect of prior accident year (1)

 

$

6,588

 

 

 

46.3

%

 

$

33,713

 

 

 

52.2

%

 

$

80,214

 

 

 

48.8

%

Effect of prior accident year

 

 

(9,506

)

 

 

(66.8

%)

 

 

(4,096

)

 

 

(6.3

%)

 

 

4,222

 

 

 

2.6

%

Non catastrophe property losses and ratio (2)

 

$

(2,918

)

 

 

(20.5

%)

 

$

29,617

 

 

 

45.9

%

 

$

84,436

 

 

 

51.4

%

Catastrophe losses and ratio excluding the effect of prior accident year (1)

 

$

3,393

 

 

 

23.8

%

 

$

11,012

 

 

 

17.0

%

 

$

35,421

 

 

 

21.5

%

Effect of prior accident year

 

 

(7,416

)

 

 

(52.1

%)

 

 

(868

)

 

 

(1.3

%)

 

 

5,392

 

 

 

3.3

%

Catastrophe losses and ratio (2)

 

$

(4,023

)

 

 

(28.3

%)

 

$

10,144

 

 

 

15.7

%

 

$

40,813

 

 

 

24.8

%

Total property losses and ratio excluding the effect of prior accident year (1)

 

$

9,981

 

 

 

70.1

%

 

$

44,725

 

 

 

69.2

%

 

$

115,635

 

 

 

70.3

%

Effect of prior accident year

 

 

(16,922

)

 

 

(118.9

%)

 

 

(4,964

)

 

 

(7.6

%)

 

 

9,614

 

 

 

5.9

%

Total property losses and ratio (2)

 

$

(6,941

)

 

 

(48.8

%)

 

$

39,761

 

 

 

61.6

%

 

$

125,249

 

 

 

76.2

%

Casualty

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Casualty losses and ratio excluding the effect of prior accident year (1)

 

$

66,269

 

 

 

63.3

%

 

$

110,515

 

 

 

62.0

%

 

$

78,356

 

 

 

63.9

%

Effect of prior accident year

 

 

(3,414

)

 

 

(3.3

%)

 

 

(5,902

)

 

 

(3.3

%)

 

 

(2,804

)

 

 

(2.3

%)

Total Casualty losses and ratio (2)

 

$

62,855

 

 

 

60.0

%

 

$

104,613

 

 

 

58.7

%

 

$

75,552

 

 

 

61.6

%

Total

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total net losses and loss adjustment expense and total loss ratio excluding the effect of prior accident year (1)

 

$

76,250

 

 

 

64.2

%

 

$

155,240

 

 

 

63.9

%

 

$

193,991

 

 

 

67.6

%

Effect of prior accident year

 

 

(20,336

)

 

 

(17.1

%)

 

 

(10,866

)

 

 

(4.5

%)

 

 

6,810

 

 

 

2.4

%

Total net losses and loss adjustment expense and total loss ratio (2)

 

$

55,914

 

 

 

47.1

%

 

$

144,374

 

 

 

59.4

%

 

$

200,801

 

 

 

70.0

%

 

(1)
Non-GAAP measure / ratio
(2)
Most directly comparable GAAP measure / ratio

Premiums

See “Result of Operations” above for a discussion on consolidated premiums for 2023.

Other Income

Other income was $0.2 million, $0.4 million, and $0.8 million for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively. Other income is primarily comprised of fee income.

 

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Loss Ratio

The current accident year losses and loss ratio is summarized as follows:

 

 

 

Years Ended
December 31,

 

 

%

 

 

Years Ended
December 31,

 

 

%

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

Change

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

 

Change

 

Property losses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non-catastrophe

 

$

6,588

 

 

$

33,713

 

 

 

(80.5

%)

 

$

33,713

 

 

$

80,214

 

 

 

(58.0

%)

Catastrophe

 

 

3,393

 

 

 

11,012

 

 

 

(69.2

%)

 

 

11,012

 

 

 

35,421

 

 

 

(68.9

%)

Property losses

 

 

9,981

 

 

 

44,725

 

 

 

(77.7

%)

 

 

44,725

 

 

 

115,635

 

 

 

(61.3

%)

Casualty losses

 

 

66,269

 

 

 

110,515

 

 

 

(40.0

%)

 

 

110,515

 

 

 

78,356

 

 

 

41.0

%

Total accident year losses

 

$

76,250

 

 

$

155,240

 

 

 

(50.9

%)

 

$

155,240

 

 

$

193,991

 

 

 

(20.0

%)

 

 

 

Years Ended
December 31,

 

 

Point

 

 

Years Ended
December 31,

 

 

Point

 

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

Change

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

 

Change

 

Current accident year loss ratio:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Property

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non-catastrophe

 

 

46.3

%

 

 

52.2

%

 

 

(5.9

)

 

 

52.2

%

 

 

48.8

%

 

 

3.4

 

Catastrophe

 

 

23.8

%

 

 

17.0

%

 

 

6.8

 

 

 

17.0

%

 

 

21.5

%

 

 

(4.5

)

Property loss ratio

 

 

70.1

%

 

 

69.2

%

 

 

0.9

 

 

 

69.2

%

 

 

70.3

%

 

 

(1.1

)

Casualty loss ratio

 

 

63.3

%

 

 

62.0

%

 

 

1.3

 

 

 

62.0

%

 

 

63.9

%

 

 

(1.9

)

Total accident year loss ratio

 

 

64.2

%

 

 

63.9

%

 

 

0.3

 

 

 

63.9

%

 

 

67.6

%

 

 

(3.7

)

 

The current accident year property non-catastrophe loss ratio for 2023 improved by 5.9 points compared to 2022 primarily due to lower claims frequency. The current accident year property non-catastrophe loss ratio for 2022 increased by 3.4 points compared to 2021 primarily reflecting higher claims frequency.

 

The current accident year property catastrophe loss ratio for 2023 increased by 6.8 points compared to 2022 mainly recognizing higher claims frequency. The current accident year property catastrophe loss ratio for 2022 improved by 4.5 points compared to 2021 reflecting lower claims frequency.

The current accident year casualty loss ratio for 2023 increased by 1.3 points compared to 2022 mainly due to higher claims severity in non-reinsurance lines of business and a higher mix of assumed reinsurance business that has a higher loss ratio. The current accident year casualty loss ratio for 2022 improved by 1.9 points compared to 2021 primarily due to lower claims severity in non-reinsurance lines of business as well as a mix of business change and growth in a treaty that has a lower expected loss ratio for the Company's reinsurance business.

The calendar year loss ratio for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021 includes a decrease of $20.3 million, or 17.1%, a decrease of $10.9 million, or 4.5%, and an increase of $6.8 million, or 2.4%, respectively, related to reserve development on prior accident years. Please see Note 12 of the notes to the consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for further discussion on prior accident year development.

Expense Ratios

 

The expense ratio improved 0.9 points from 41.7% for 2022 to 40.8% for 2023 primarily due to a reduction in operating expenses due to the sale of renewal rights partially offset by an increase in commission expense.

 

The expense ratio increased 3.4 points from 38.3% for 2021 to 41.7% for 2022 primarily due to a change in the mix of business where reinsurance, which has a higher commission rate, comprised a larger portion of Non-Core Operations in 2022.

 

 

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Unallocated Corporate Items

The Company’s fixed income portfolio, excluding cash, continues to maintain high quality with an A+ average rating and a duration of 1.1 years.

Net Investment Income

 

 

 

Years Ended
December 31,

 

 

%

 

 

Years Ended
December 31,

 

 

%

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

Change

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

 

Change

 

Gross investment income (1)

 

$

56,960

 

 

$

29,776

 

 

 

91.3

%

 

$

29,776

 

 

$

39,662

 

 

 

(24.9

%)

Investment expenses

 

 

(1,516

)

 

 

(2,149

)

 

 

(29.5

%)

 

 

(2,149

)

 

 

(2,642

)

 

 

(18.7

%)

Net investment income

 

$

55,444

 

 

$

27,627

 

 

 

100.7

%

 

$

27,627

 

 

$

37,020

 

 

 

(25.4

%)

 

(1)
Excludes realized gains and losses

Gross investment income for 2023 increased by 91.3% and net investment income for 2023 increased by 100.7% compared to 2022. The increase was primarily due to an increase in yield within the fixed maturities portfolio due to the rise in rates and increased returns from alternative investments. Gross investment income for 2022 decreased by 24.9% and net investment income for 2022 decreased by 25.4% compared to 2021. The decrease was primarily due to decreased returns from alternative investments and lowered invested assets due to the liquidation of the Company’s common stock portfolio and a portion of the bond portfolio in order to raise funds to retire the 2047 Notes in April 2022. This decrease was partially offset by an increase in yield within the fixed maturities portfolio due to the rise in rates.

At December 31, 2023, the Company held asset-backed, mortgage-backed, commercial mortgage-backed and collateralized mortgage obligations with a market value of $341.0 million. Excluding the asset-backed, mortgage-backed, commercial mortgage-backed and collateralized mortgage obligations, the average duration of the Company’s fixed maturities portfolio was 0.9 years as of December 31, 2023, compared with 1.5 years as of December 31, 2022. Changes in interest rates can cause principal payments on certain investments to extend or shorten which can impact duration. See Note 5 of the notes to the consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for additional information on security classes held at December 31, 2023. At December 31, 2023, the Company’s embedded book yield on its fixed maturities, not including cash, was 4.0% compared with 3.5% at December 31, 2022. The embedded book yield on the $26.2 million of taxable municipal bonds in the Company’s portfolio was 3.0% at December 31, 2023, compared to an embedded book yield of 3.1% on the Company’s taxable municipal bonds of $31.6 million at December 31, 2022.

 

At December 31, 2022, the Company held asset-backed, mortgage-backed, commercial mortgage-backed and collateralized mortgage obligations with a market value of $350.2 million. Excluding the asset-backed, mortgage-backed, commercial mortgage-backed and collateralized mortgage obligations, the average duration of the Company’s fixed maturities portfolio was 1.5 years as of December 31, 2022, compared with 4.0 years as of December 31, 2021. Changes in interest rates can cause principal payments on certain investments to extend or shorten which can impact duration. At December 31, 2022, the Company’s embedded book yield on its fixed maturities, not including cash, was 3.5% compared with 2.2% at December 31, 2021. The embedded book yield on the $31.6 million of taxable municipal bonds in the Company’s portfolio was 3.1% at December 31, 2022, compared to an embedded book yield of 2.8% on the Company’s taxable municipal bonds of $54.6 million at December 31, 2021.

Net Realized Investment Gains (Losses)

The components of net realized investment gains (losses) for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021 were as follows:

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Equity securities

 

$

(453

)

 

$

(3,392

)

 

$

13,440

 

Fixed maturities

 

 

(1,654

)

 

 

(13,405

)

 

 

342

 

Derivatives

 

 

 

 

 

10,073

 

 

 

2,105

 

Other-than-temporary impairment losses

 

 

 

 

 

(26,205

)

 

 

 

Net realized investment gains (losses)

 

$

(2,107

)

 

$

(32,929

)

 

$

15,887

 

 

In response to a rising interest rate environment, the Company took action early in April 2022 to shorten the duration of its fixed maturities portfolio. In connection with these actions, the Company identified fixed maturities securities with a

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weighted average life of five years or greater as having an intent to sell, the majority of which were sold in the 2nd quarter of 2022. Most of the proceeds from the sale of these securities were reinvested into fixed income investments with maturities of approximately two years. As a result of these actions, the Company's book yield rose over time. Book yield was approximately 2.2% at December 31, 2021 and 4.0% at December 31, 2023.

 

See Note 5 of the notes to the consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for an analysis of total investment return on a pre-tax basis for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021.

Corporate and Other Operating Expenses

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Corporate expenses - nondisposition related

 

$

23,383

 

 

$

13,959

 

 

$

19,977

 

Impairments and expenses related to dispositions within Non-Core Operations

 

 

 

 

 

10,462

 

 

 

7,202

 

Corporate and Other Operating Expenses

 

$

23,383

 

 

$

24,421

 

 

$

27,179

 

 

Corporate expenses - nondisposition related consist of outside legal fees, other professional fees, directors’ fees, management fees & advisory fees, salaries and benefits for holding company personnel, development costs for new products, impairment losses, and taxes incurred which are not directly related to operations. The increase in corporate expenses - nondisposition related for 2023 as compared to 2022 was primarily due to incurring $2.0 million in restructuring expenses in first quarter of 2023 and incurring $1.6 million to settle an employment related matter in 2023. In addition, corporate expenses in 2022 were reduced by $5.5 million due to the Company receiving an employee retention credit under the CARES Act. The decrease in corporate expenses - nondisposition related for 2022 as compared to 2021 was primarily due to the Company receiving an employee retention credit under the CARES Act of $5.5 million.

 

Impairments and expenses related to dispositions within Non-Core Operations represent impairments of goodwill, intangible assets, software, and lease costs as well as legal expenses and merger and acquisition fees related to the sale of renewal rights related to the Company's Farm, Ranch & Stable business and the Company's manufactured and dwelling homes business. Impairments and expenses related to dispositions within Non-Core Operations were $10.5 million and $7.2 million during the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. There were no impairments and expenses related to dispositions within Non-Core Operations during the year ended December 31, 2023. See Note 2 of the notes to the consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for additional information on the sale of the renewal rights related to the Company’s Farm, Ranch & Stable business and the Company's manufactured and dwelling homes business.

Interest Expense

 

The Company had no interest expense for the year ended December 31, 2023. Interest expense was $3.0 million and $10.5 million during the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. The reduction in interest expense is primarily due to the redemption of the Company's 7.875% subordinated notes on April 15, 2022.

 

See Note 13 of the notes to the consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for details on the Company’s debt.

Income Tax Benefit/ Expense

 

The income tax expense was $7.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2023 compared with income tax expense of $2.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2022. The increase in income tax expense is primarily due to higher taxable income in the Company's U.S. subsidiaries.

 

The income tax expense was $2.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2022 compared with income tax expense of $3.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2021. The decrease in income tax expense is primarily due to lower taxable income in the Company's U.S. subsidiaries.

 

See Note 11 of the notes to the consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for a comparison of income tax between periods.

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Net Income (Loss)

The factors described above resulted in net income of $25.4 million, net loss of $0.9 million, and net income of $29.4 million for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Sources and Uses of Funds

Global Indemnity Group, LLC is a holding company. Its principal asset is its ownership of the shares of its direct and indirect subsidiaries, including those of its insurance companies: United National Insurance Company, Diamond State Insurance Company, Penn-America Insurance Company, Penn-Star Insurance Company, and Penn-Patriot Insurance Company.

Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s current short-term and long-term liquidity needs include but are not limited to the payment of corporate expenses, distributions to shareholders, and share repurchases. The Company also has commitments in the form of operating leases, commitments to fund limited liability investments, and unpaid losses and loss expense obligations. See the contractual obligation table below for additional information on these commitments.

In order to meet its current short-term and long-term needs, Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s principal sources of cash includes investment income, dividends from subsidiaries, other permitted disbursements from its direct and indirect subsidiaries, reimbursement for equity awards granted to employees and intercompany borrowings. The principal sources of funds at these direct and indirect subsidiaries include underwriting operations, investment income, proceeds from sales and redemptions of investments, capital contributions, intercompany borrowings, and dividends from subsidiaries. Funds are used principally by these operating subsidiaries to pay claims and operating expenses, to make intercompany debt payments, to purchase investments, and to pay dividends. In addition, the Company periodically reviews opportunities related to business acquisitions and as a result, liquidity may be needed in the future.

GBLI Holdings, LLC is a holding company which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Penn-Patriot Insurance Company. GBLI Holdings, LLC’s principal asset is its ownership of the shares of its direct and indirect subsidiaries which include United National Insurance Company, Diamond State Insurance Company, Penn-America Insurance Company, and Penn-Star Insurance Company. GBLI Holdings, LLC is dependent on dividends from its subsidiaries as well as reimbursements from its subsidiaries for utilization of net operating losses in order to meet its corporate expense obligations and intercompany financing obligations.

The future liquidity of Global Indemnity Group, LLC is dependent on the ability of its subsidiaries to generate income to pay dividends and to pay intercompany debt due to Global Indemnity Group, LLC. The future liquidity of GBLI Holdings, LLC is dependent on the ability of its subsidiaries to generate income to pay dividends as well as receiving reimbursements from its subsidiaries for utilization of net operating losses. Global Indemnity Group, LLC and GBLI Holdings, LLC’s insurance companies are restricted by statute as to the amount of dividends that they may pay without the prior approval of regulatory authorities. The dividend limitations imposed by state laws are based on the statutory financial results of each insurance company that are determined by using statutory accounting practices that differ in various respects from accounting principles used in financial statements prepared in conformity with GAAP. See “Regulation—Statutory Accounting Principles.” Key differences relate to, among other items, deferred acquisition costs, limitations on deferred income taxes, reserve calculation assumptions and surplus notes.

Under Virginia law, Penn-Patriot Insurance Company may not pay any dividend or make any distribution of cash or other property, the fair market value of which, together with that of any other dividends or distributions made within the preceding 12 consecutive months exceeds the greater of either (1) 10% of its surplus as of the 31st day of December of the last preceding year, or (2) its net income, not including net realized capital gains, for the 12 month period ending on the 31st day of December of the last preceding year, not including pro rata distributions of any class of its securities, unless the commissioner approves the proposed payment or fails to disapprove such payment within 30 days after receiving notice of such payment. In determining whether the dividend must be approved, undistributed net income from the second and third preceding years, not including net realized capital gains, may be carried forward.

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Under Pennsylvania law, United National Insurance Company, Penn-America Insurance Company, and Penn-Star Insurance Company may not pay any dividend or make any distribution that, together with other dividends or distributions made within the preceding 12 consecutive months, exceeds the greater of (1) 10% of its surplus as shown on its last annual statement on file with the commissioner or (2) its net income for the period covered by such statement, not including pro rata distributions of any class of its own securities, unless the commissioner has received notice from the insurer of the declaration of the dividend and the commissioner approves the proposed payment or fails to disapprove such payment within 30 days after receiving notice of such payment. An additional limitation is that Pennsylvania does not permit a domestic insurer to declare or pay a dividend except out of unassigned funds (surplus) unless otherwise approved by the commissioner before the dividend is paid. Furthermore, no dividend or other distribution may be declared or paid by a Pennsylvania insurance company that would reduce its total capital and surplus to an amount that is less than the amount required by the Insurance Department for the kind or kinds of business that it is authorized to transact. Pennsylvania law allows loans to affiliates up to 10% of statutory surplus without prior regulatory approval.

Under Indiana law, Diamond State Insurance Company may not pay any dividend or make any distribution of cash or other property, the fair market value of which, together with that of any other dividends or distributions made within the 12 consecutive months ending on the date on which the proposed dividend or distribution is scheduled to be made, exceeds the greater of (1) 10% of its surplus as of the 31st day of December of the last preceding year, or (2) its net income for the 12 month period ending on the 31st day of December of the last preceding year, unless the commissioner approves the proposed payment or fails to disapprove such payment within 30 days after receiving notice of such payment. An additional limitation is that Indiana does not permit a domestic insurer to declare or pay a dividend except out of unassigned surplus unless otherwise approved by the commissioner before the dividend is paid.

The Company’s insurance subsidiaries did not declare or pay any dividends in 2023. See Note 21 of the notes to consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for the maximum amount of distributions that U.S. insurance companies could pay as dividends in 2024.

Surplus Levels

Global Indemnity’s insurance companies are required by law to maintain a certain minimum level of policyholders’ surplus on a statutory basis. Policyholders’ surplus is calculated by subtracting total liabilities from total assets. The NAIC has risk-based capital standards that are designed to identify property and casualty insurers that may be inadequately capitalized based on the inherent risks of each insurer’s assets and liabilities and mix of net written premiums. Insurers falling below a calculated threshold may be subject to varying degrees of regulatory action. Based on the standards currently adopted, the policyholders’ surplus of each of the insurance companies is in excess of the prescribed minimum company action level risk-based capital requirements.

Sources of operating funds consist primarily of net written premiums and investment income. Funds are used primarily to pay claims and operating expenses and to purchase investments. As a result of the distribution policy, funds may also be used to pay distributions to shareholders of the Company.

The Company’s reconciliation of net income (loss) to net cash provided by operations is generally influenced by the following:

the fact that the Company collects premiums, net of commissions, in advance of losses paid;
the timing of the Company’s settlements with its reinsurers; and
the timing of the Company’s loss payments.

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Net cash provided by operating activities in 2023, 2022, and 2021 was $42.9 million, $44.2 million and $90.8 million, respectively.

In 2023, the decrease in operating cash flows of approximately $1.4 million from the prior year was primarily a net result of the following items:

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

Change

 

Net premiums collected

 

$

454,139

 

 

$

541,087

 

 

$

(86,948

)

Net losses paid

 

 

(265,676

)

 

 

(272,585

)

 

 

6,909

 

Underwriting and corporate expenses

 

 

(192,226

)

 

 

(251,031

)

 

 

58,805

 

Net investment income

 

 

47,262

 

 

 

32,316

 

 

 

14,946

 

Net federal income taxes paid

 

 

(613

)

 

 

(426

)

 

 

(187

)

Interest paid

 

 

 

 

 

(5,125

)

 

 

5,125

 

Net cash provided by operating activities

 

$

42,886

 

 

$

44,236

 

 

$

(1,350

)

 

In 2022, the decrease in operating cash flows of approximately $46.6 million from the prior year was primarily a net result of the following items:

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

 

Change

 

Net premiums collected

 

$

541,087

 

 

$

599,870

 

 

$

(58,783

)

Net losses paid

 

 

(272,585

)

 

 

(299,027

)

 

 

26,442

 

Underwriting and corporate expenses

 

 

(251,031

)

 

 

(241,017

)

 

 

(10,014

)

Net investment income

 

 

32,316

 

 

 

41,367

 

 

 

(9,051

)

Net federal income taxes paid

 

 

(426

)

 

 

(54

)

 

 

(372

)

Interest paid

 

 

(5,125

)

 

 

(10,340

)

 

 

5,215

 

Net cash provided by operating activities

 

$

44,236

 

 

$

90,799

 

 

$

(46,563

)

 

See the consolidated statements of cash flows in the consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for details concerning the Company’s investing and financing activities.

Liquidity

Currently, the Company believes each of its insurance companies maintains sufficient liquidity to pay claims through cash generated by operations and liquid investments. The holding companies also maintain sufficient liquidity to meet their obligations. The Company monitors its investment portfolios to assure liability and investment durations are closely matched.

Prospectively, as fixed income investments mature and new cash is obtained, the cash available to invest will be invested in accordance with the Company’s investment policy. The Company’s investment policy allows the Company to invest in taxable and tax-exempt fixed income investments as well as publicly traded and private equity investments. With respect to bonds, the Company’s credit exposure limit for each issuer varies with the issuer’s credit quality. The allocation between taxable and tax-exempt bonds is determined based on market conditions and tax considerations. The fixed income portfolio currently has a duration of 1.1 years.

As of December 31, 2023, the Company also had future funding commitments of $14.2 million related to investments that are currently in their harvest period and it is unlikely that a capital call will be made.

The Company has access to various capital sources including dividends from insurance subsidiaries and access to the debt and equity capital markets. The Company believes it has sufficient liquidity to meet its capital needs. See Note 21 of the notes to the consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for a discussion of the Company’s dividend capacity. However, the Company’s future capital requirements depend on many factors, including the amount of premium it writes, the amount of loss reserves by lines of business, and catastrophe exposure. To the extent that the Company needs to raise additional funds, any equity or debt financing for this purpose, if available at all, may be on terms that are not favorable to the Company. If the Company cannot obtain adequate capital, its business, results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected.

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Stock Repurchase

On October 21, 2022, Global Indemnity Group, LLC announced it commenced a stock repurchase program beginning in the fourth quarter of 2022. On January 3, 2023, Global Indemnity Group, LLC announced that it had authorized an increase in the aggregate stock purchase program from $32 million, which was authorized on October 21, 2022, to $60 million. On June 8, 2023, Global Indemnity Group, LLC's Board of Directors approved an additional increase in the existing share buyback authorization amount of $60 million to $135 million. The authorization to repurchase will expire on December 31, 2027. The timing and actual number of shares repurchased, if any, will depend on a variety of factors, including price, general business and market conditions, and alternative investment opportunities.

Under the repurchase program, repurchases may be made from time to time using a variety of methods, including open market purchases or privately negotiated transactions, all in compliance with Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s Insider Trading Policy, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, and other applicable legal requirements. The repurchase program does not obligate Global Indemnity Group, LLC to acquire any particular amount of class A common shares, and the repurchase program may be suspended or discontinued at any time at Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s discretion.

From the time of the initial announcement on October 21, 2022, a total of 1,357,082 shares were repurchased for approximately $34.0 million at an average purchase price of $25.05 per share. 138,151 shares that were acquired were reissued in December 2022 at an average price per share of $24.17. As a result of these transactions, book value per share increased by $1.69 per share since inception of the stock repurchase program in October 2022.

Restructuring

The Company restructured its insurance operations to strengthen its market presence and enhance its focus on GBLI’s core products. The restructuring plan was initiated in the fourth quarter of 2022 and was completed in the first quarter of 2023. The Company incurred restructuring charges of $3.4 million in 2022 and $2.0 million in 2023 for a total of $5.4 million. The Company anticipates recurring annual expense savings of $16.0 million.

Distributions

On March 6, 2024, the Board of Directors approved a dividend rate of $0.35 per common share payable on March 28, 2024 to all shareholders of record as of the close of business on March 21, 2024, a 40% increase over the prior quarterly dividend rate of $0.25 per common share. Future dividends remain subject to the discretion of GBLI’s Board of Directors, including the Board of Director’s evaluation of the company’s financial performance, capital and reserve positions, liquidity, balance sheet, and other factors. As of December 31, 2023, there are currently 13,565,041 shares outstanding.

 

During 2023, Board of Directors approved a distribution payment of $0.25 per common share to all shareholders of record on the close of business on March 24, 2023, June 23, 2023, October 9, 2023, and December 22, 2023. Distributions paid to common shareholders were $14.2 million during the year ended December 31, 2023. In addition, distributions of $0.4 million were paid to Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s preferred shareholder during the year ended December 31, 2023.

 

During 2022, the Board of Directors approved a distribution payment of $0.25 per common share to all shareholders of record on the close of business on March 21, 2022, June 20, 2022, October 4, 2022, and December 23, 2022. Distributions paid to common shareholders were $14.4 million during the year ended December 31, 2022. In addition, distributions of $0.4 million were paid to Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s preferred shareholder during the year ended December 31, 2022.

 

During 2021, the Board of Directors approved a distribution payment of $0.25 per common share to all shareholders of record on the close of business on March 22, 2021, June 21, 2021, September 23, 2021, and December 20, 2021. Distributions paid to common shareholders were $14.4 million during the year ended December 31, 2021. In addition, distributions of $0.4 million were paid to Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s preferred shareholder during the year ended December 31, 2021.

 

Investment Portfolio

As a result of duration shortening, the Company significantly reduced its interest rate risk with more than 80% of the fixed maturity portfolio maturing over the next three years. With a shorter duration, the investment portfolio is well positioned to increase book yield by investing maturities in higher yielding bonds. At December 31, 2023, the Company's embedded book

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yield on its fixed maturities, not including cash, was 4.0% compared with 3.5% at December 31, 2022 and 2.2% at December 31, 2021.

 

On July 31, 2023, the Company provided the Global Debt Fund, LP with a formal withdrawal request in full. Withdrawal proceeds are expected to be received starting in 2024. The Global Debt Fund, LP had a fair market value of $26.0 million at December 31, 2023.

 

On May 18, 2022, the Company provided the Credit Fund, LLC with formal withdrawal request in full. Proceeds of $99.6 million were received on July 29, 2022 and were invested in fixed income investments with maturities of two years and less.

Sale of Renewal Rights related to Farm, Ranch & Stable and Sale of American Reliable Insurance Company

On August 8, 2022, the Company sold the renewal rights related to its Farm, Ranch & Stable business for policies written on or after August 8, 2022 to Everett Cash Mutual Insurance Company for $30.0 million. The Company retained the unearned premium reserves for business written prior to August 8, 2022. Everett Cash Mutual Insurance Company also acquired the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, American Reliable Insurance Company, on December 31, 2022 for an amount equal to book value, which was $10.0 million, at the time of closing.

Sale of Renewal Rights Related to Manufactured & Dwelling Homes Business

 

On October 26, 2021, the Company sold the renewal rights related to its manufactured and dwelling homes business to K2 Insurance Services (“K2”) and American Family Mutual Insurance Company (“American Family”). Pursuant to the tripartite transaction, the Company received $28.0 million in cash in October 2021. The Company also retained the American Reliable 50-state licensed operating unit, $65 million of net capital supporting the business, and a related $42 million unearned premium reserve. The Company currently leases office space in Scottsdale, Arizona. As part of this sale, K2 is subleasing approximately one third of the Scottsdale, Arizona office space. Currently, the Company intends to exercise the early termination clause in its Scottsdale, Arizona lease. The Company expects it will receive $1.6 million in sublease payments from K2 between October 2021 and October 2026.

 

To facilitate the transaction, American Reliable retained the specialty residential property business in Florida and Louisiana and also retained business that was previously placed in runoff. American Reliable commenced the non-renewal of manufactured home insurance in Florida beginning on March 11, 2022, for policies expiring on or after July 10, 2022. American Reliable and United National non-renewed manufactured home and dwelling insurance in Louisiana beginning on or about January 31, 2022, for policies renewing on or after March 7, 2022. American Family assumed 100% of the risks for all policies covered under the renewal rights agreement which are written or renewed after October 26, 2021, except for policies covering properties in the state of Florida. The Company also retained risk for business previously placed in runoff and policies in Louisiana. There were no specialty residential property policies in-force in Florida and Louisiana as of December 31, 2023.

 

In addition, effective November 30, 2021, the Company and American Family reached an agreement where American Family agreed to reinsure 100% of the Company’s unearned premium reserves of the same types as the policies comprising the manufactured and dwelling homes business lines noted above that were in force as of November 30, 2021. The approximate amount of the unearned premium reserves at November 30, 2021 was $33.8 million. The Company received a 40% ceding commission which included a provision for a 4% claims administration fee to be paid by the Company directly to K2 Claims.

Trust accounts

The Company established trust accounts, which are held by Penn-Patriot Insurance Company, to collateralize exposure it had to certain third-party ceding companies. The Company believes that Penn-Patriot Insurance Company will have sufficient liquidity to pay claims prospectively.

Capital Resources

 

Investment Portfolio

In response to a rising interest rate environment, the Company took action early in April 2022 to shorten the duration of its fixed maturities portfolio. In connection with these actions, the Company identified fixed maturities securities with a weighted average life of five years or greater as having an intent to sell. Most of the proceeds from the sale of these securities were reinvested into fixed income investments with maturities of two years. As a result of these actions, the

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Company's book yield rose over time. Book yield was approximately 2.2% at December 31, 2021 and 4.0% at December 31, 2023.

 

Redemption of Debt

On April 15, 2022, the Company redeemed the entire $130 million in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding 2047 Notes plus accrued and unpaid interest on the 2047 Notes redeemed to, but not including the Redemption Date of April 15, 2022. The funds to redeem the debt were primarily obtained through the sale of the Company’s equity portfolio in the amount of $75.9 million, $32.0 million in dividends from insurance company subsidiaries, $18.4 million from distributions received from private equity investments, and the remainder from its subsidiary, GBLI Holdings, LLC.

 

As a result of this redemption, the Company no longer has any outstanding debt with third parties.

 

Intercompany Pooling Arrangement

The Company’s U.S. insurance companies participate in an intercompany pooling arrangement whereby premiums, losses, and expenses are shared pro rata amongst the U.S. insurance companies. Prior to completion of the sale of American Reliable, American Reliable comprised 30% of the pool. Due to the sale of American Reliable on December 31, 2022, the intercompany pooling agreement was amended. American Reliable was removed from the pool and its 30% participation in the business and capital was allocated to the Company’s remaining five insurance companies.

The intercompany reinsurance agreement was updated in 2022 to require each company in the reinsurance pool to fund its proportionate share of collateral required to fund certain third party ceding companies.

 

For additional information on the Sale of American Reliable, please see the liquidity section above.

 

Intercompany Loan

 

On August 28, 2020, Global Indemnity Investments, Inc. entered into a promissory note with Global Indemnity Group, LLC for the principal amount of $11.3 million. This note was issued in conjunction with Global Indemnity Investment Inc.’s purchase of limited liability partnership interests from Global Indemnity Group, LLC. The note bears interest at a rate of 1.47% and is due on August 28, 2030. This loan was fully repaid at December 31, 2021.

 

On December 15, 2021, Global Indemnity Investments, Inc. entered into a $10.0 million discretionary line of credit demand note with Global Indemnity Group, LLC, as borrower. Each advance outstanding under this note will bear interest at an annual interest rate equal to the short-term applicable federal rate in effect at the time the advance was granted and will reset once a month. The outstanding principal amount of each advance shall be payable on the last day of the applicable interest period of such advance and on demand. There is no balance outstanding on this note at December 31, 2023.

 

On April 13, 2022, GBLI Holdings, LLC issued a promissory note to Global Indemnity Group, LLC for the principal amount of $69.4 million. This note bears interest at a rate equal to the short-term, annual compound Applicable Federal Rate ("AFR") in effect for April 2022 which was 1.26%. On each third anniversary of this Note, the interest rate shall reset to the then applicable short-term, annual compounded AFR for such month. The Note is due on April 13, 2031. The outstanding balance on this note was $69.4 million at December 31, 2023.

 

On April 13, 2022, GBLI Holdings, LLC issued a promissory note to Global Indemnity Investment Inc. for the principal amount of $18.4 million. This note bears interest at a rate equal to the short-term, annual compound AFR in effect for April 2022 which was 1.26%. On each third anniversary of this Note, the interest rate shall reset to the then applicable short-term, annual compounded AFR for such month. The Note is due on April 13, 2031. The outstanding balance on this note was $18.4 million at December 31, 2023.

 

Intercompany Dividends and Capital Contributions

 

In addition to intercompany dividends that are paid in the ordinary course of business, American Reliable Insurance Company paid an extraordinary dividend in December 2022, which was approved by the Arizona Department of Insurance, in the amount of $102.3 million which was treated as one of a series of liquidating distributions of American Reliable Insurance Company. In conjunction with the liquidation of American Reliable Insurance Company, a series of capital contributions were made downstream within GBLI Holdings, LLC and subsidiaries in an effort to reallocate the capital from the sale of American Reliable Insurance Company.

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All of the intercompany transactions discussed above eliminate in consolidation and have no impact on the consolidating financial statements.

 

Derivative Instruments

 

The Company entered into derivative instruments related to interest rate swaps. Due to fluctuations in interest rates, the Company received $12.7 million and $2.7 million in connection with these derivative instruments for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. The Company terminated its outstanding interest rate swaps in the fourth quarter of 2022. No amounts related to the derivative instruments were received in 2023. The Company has no interest rate swap agreements as of December 31, 2023.

 

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Contractual Obligations

The Company has commitments in the form of operating leases, commitments to fund limited liability investments, and unpaid losses and loss expense obligations. As of December 31, 2023, contractual obligations related to Global Indemnity’s commitments were as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Payment Due by Period

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Total

 

 

Less than 1 year

 

 

1 – 3
years

 

 

3 – 5
years

 

 

More than
5 years

 

Operating leases (1)

 

$

13,006

 

 

$

2,729

 

 

$

5,444

 

 

$

3,202

 

 

$

1,631

 

Commitments to fund limited partnership investment (2)

 

 

14,214

 

 

 

14,214

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses obligations (3)

 

 

850,599

 

 

 

291,756

 

 

 

299,410

 

 

 

130,992

 

 

 

128,441

 

Total

 

$

877,819

 

 

$

308,699

 

 

$

304,854

 

 

$

134,194

 

 

$

130,072

 

 

(1)
The Company leases office space and equipment as part of its normal operations. The amounts shown above represent future commitments under such operating leases.
(2)
Represents future funding commitment of the Company’s participation in a limited partnership investment. See Note 17 of the notes to the consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for additional information on this commitment.
(3)
These amounts represent the gross future amounts needed to pay losses and related loss adjustment expenses and do not reflect amounts that are expected to be recovered from the Company’s reinsurers. See discussion in “Liability for Unpaid Losses and Loss Adjustment Expenses” for more details.

Inflation

Property and casualty insurance premiums are established before the Company knows the amount of losses and loss adjustment expenses or the extent to which inflation may affect such amounts. The Company attempts to anticipate the potential impact of inflation in establishing its reserves.

Future increases in inflation could result in future increases in interest rates, which in turn are likely to result in a decline in the market value of the investment portfolio and resulting in unrealized losses and reductions in shareholders' equity.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Some of the statements under “Business,” “Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and elsewhere in this report may include forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Security Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, that reflect the Company’s current views with respect to future events and financial performance. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts. These statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "believe," "expect," "may," "will," "should," "project," "plan," "seek," "intend," or "anticipate" or the negative thereof or comparable terminology, and include discussions of strategy, financial projections and estimates and their underlying assumptions, statements regarding plans, objectives, expectations or consequences of identified transactions or natural disasters, and statements about the future performance, operations, products and services of the companies.

The Company’s business and operations are and will be subject to a variety of risks, uncertainties and other factors. Consequently, actual results and experience may materially differ from those contained in any forward-looking statements. See “Risk Factors” in Item 1A of Part I of this report for risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results and experience to differ from those projected.

The forward-looking statements contained in this report are primarily based on the Company’s current expectations and projections about future events and trends that it believes may affect the Company’s business, financial condition, results of operations, prospects, business strategy and financial needs. The outcome of the events described in these forward-looking statements is subject to risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors described in the section captioned “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this report. These risks are not exhaustive. Other sections of this report include additional factors that could adversely impact the Company’s business and financial performance. Moreover, the Company operates in a very competitive environment. New risks and uncertainties emerge from time to time and it is not possible for the Company to predict all risks and uncertainties that could have an impact on the forward-looking statements contained in this report. The Company cannot provide assurance that the results, events and circumstances reflected in the forward-looking statements will be achieved or occur, and actual results, events or circumstances could differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements.

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In addition, statements that “the Company believes” and similar statements reflect the Company’s beliefs and opinions on the relevant subject. These statements are based upon information available to the Company as of the date of this report, and while the Company believes such information forms a reasonable basis for such statements, such information may be limited or incomplete, and these statements should not be read to indicate that the Company have conducted an exhaustive inquiry into, or review of, all potentially available relevant information. These statements are inherently uncertain and investors are cautioned not to unduly rely upon these statements.

This report and the documents that are referenced in this report and have filed as exhibits to this report should be read with the understanding that actual future results, levels of activity, performance and achievements may be materially different from what the Company expects. The Company qualifies all of its forward-looking statements by these cautionary statements.

The Company’s forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this report or as of the date they were made. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or review any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.

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Item 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

Market Risk

Market risk is the risk of economic losses due to adverse changes in the estimated fair value of a financial instrument as the result of changes in interest rates, equity prices, credit risk, illiquidity, foreign exchange rates and commodity prices. The Company’s consolidated balance sheets includes the estimated fair values of assets that are subject to market risk. The Company’s primary market risks are interest rate risk and credit risks associated with investments in fixed maturities, equity price risk associated with investments in equity securities, and foreign exchange risk associated with premium received that is denominated in foreign currencies. Each of these risks is discussed in more detail below. The Company has no commodity risk.

Interest Rate Risk

The Company’s primary market risk exposure is to changes in interest rates. The Company’s fixed income investments are exposed to interest rate risk. Fluctuations in interest rates have a direct impact on the market valuation of these securities. As interest rates rise, the market value of the Company’s fixed income investments fall, and the converse is also true. The Company seeks to manage interest rate risk through an active portfolio management strategy that involves the selection, by the Company’s managers, of investments with appropriate characteristics, such as duration, yield, currency, and liquidity that are tailored to the anticipated cash outflow characteristics of the Company’s liabilities. The Company’s strategy for managing interest rate risk also includes maintaining a high quality bond portfolio with a relatively short duration to reduce the effect of interest rate changes on book value. A significant portion of the Company’s investment portfolio matures each year, allowing for reinvestment at current market rates.

As of December 31, 2023, assuming identical shifts in interest rates for securities of all maturities, the table below illustrates the sensitivity of market value in Global Indemnity’s bonds to selected hypothetical changes in basis point increases and decreases:

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

 

Change in Market Value

 

Basis Point Change

 

Market Value

 

 

 

 

 

%

 

(200)

 

$

1,322,494

 

 

 

28,701

 

 

 

2.2

%

(100)

 

 

1,308,143

 

 

 

14,350

 

 

 

1.1

%

No change

 

 

1,293,793

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

100

 

 

1,279,448

 

 

 

(14,345

)

 

 

(1.1

%)

200

 

 

1,265,106

 

 

 

(28,687

)

 

 

(2.2

%)

 

Credit Risk

The Company’s investment policy requires that its investments in debt instruments are of high credit quality issuers and limit the amount of credit exposure to any one issuer based upon the rating of the security.

As of December 31, 2023, the Company had approximately $27.8 million worth of investment exposure to subprime and Alt-A investments. As of December 31, 2023, approximately $15.1 million of those investments have been rated BBB to AAA by Standard & Poor’s and $12.7 million were rated below investment grade. As of December 31, 2022, the Company had approximately $24.3 million worth of investment exposure to subprime and Alt-A investments. As of December 31, 2022, approximately $10.1 million of those investments have been rated BBB to AAA by Standard & Poor’s and $14.2 million were rated below investment grade. There was no credit loss recorded on these investments during the years ended December 31, 2023 or 2022.

In addition, the Company has credit risk exposure to its general agencies and reinsurers. The Company seeks to mitigate and control its risks to producers by typically requiring its general agencies to render payments within no more than 45 days after the month in which a policy is effective and including provisions within the Company’s general agency contracts that allow it to terminate a general agency's authority in the event of non-payment.

With respect to its credit exposure to reinsurers, the Company seeks to mitigate and control its risk by ceding business to only those reinsurers having adequate financial strength and sufficient capital to fund their obligation. In addition, the Company seeks to mitigate credit risk to reinsurers through the use of trusts and letters of credit for collateral.

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Equity Price Risk

The Company exited its investment in the stable dividend equity portfolio during the first quarter of 2022. The Company continues to hold a minimal amount of preferred stocks as of December 31, 2023, however, the positions do not pose a significant equity price risk.

 

Foreign Currency Exchange Risk

The Company has foreign currency exchange risk associated with a portion of the business previously written at Global Indemnity Reinsurance, as well as a small portion of expenses related to corporate overhead in its Ireland office. The Company also maintains cash accounts in foreign currencies in order to pay expenses in foreign countries. At period-end, the Company re-measures those non-U.S. currency financial assets to their current U.S. dollar equivalent. Financial liabilities, if any, are generally adjusted within the reserving process. However, for known losses on claims to be paid in foreign currencies, the Company re-measures the liabilities to their current U.S. dollar equivalent each period end.

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Item 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA

GLOBAL INDEMNITY GROUP, LLC

Index to Financial Statements

 

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID: 42)

 

73

 

 

 

Consolidated Balance Sheets

 

75

 

 

 

Consolidated Statements of Operations

 

76

 

 

 

Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss)

 

77

 

 

 

Consolidated Statements of Changes in Shareholders’ Equity

 

78

 

 

 

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

 

79

 

 

 

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

 

80

 

Index to Financial Statement Schedules

 

Schedule I

 

Summary of Investments – Other Than Investments in Related Parties

 

S-1

 

 

 

 

 

Schedule II

 

Condensed Financial Information of Registrant

 

S-2

 

 

 

 

 

Schedule III

 

Supplementary Insurance Information

 

S-5

 

 

 

 

 

Schedule IV

 

Reinsurance Earned Premiums

 

S-6

 

 

 

 

 

Schedule V

 

Valuation and Qualifying Accounts and Reserves

 

S-7

 

 

 

 

 

Schedule VI

 

Supplementary Information for Property Casualty Underwriters

 

S-8

 

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 

To the Shareholders and the Board of Directors of Global Indemnity Group, LLC

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Global Indemnity Group, LLC (the Company) as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income (loss), changes in shareholders' equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2023, and the related notes and financial statement schedules listed in the Index at Item 15(a) (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company at December 31, 2023 and 2022, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2023, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the Company's internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2023, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework), and our report dated March 15, 2024 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Critical Audit Matter

The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective or complex judgments. The communication of the critical audit matter does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the account or disclosure to which it relates.

Valuation of Unpaid Losses and Loss Adjustment Expenses

Description of the Matter

At December 31, 2023, the Company’s liability for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses was $851 million, of which a significant portion represents incurred but not reported reserves. As described in Note 4 of the consolidated financial statements, the liability for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses represents the Company’s best estimate of future amounts needed to pay losses and related settlement expenses with respect to events insured by the Company. The difference between the estimated ultimate loss and loss adjustment expenses and the case incurred loss (paid loss plus case reserve) is considered to be incurred but not reported. There is significant uncertainty inherent in determining management’s best estimate of the ultimate loss and loss adjustment expenses, requiring the use of informed actuarially based estimates and management’s judgment. In particular, the Company’s long-tail reserve categories (such as general liability, construction defect and environmental exposures) are influenced by factors that are subject to significant variation over a long period of time or have high potential severities within the selection and weighting of actuarial methods and assumptions. Assumptions fundamental to the reserving process include claims frequency and severity as well as the review of historical payment and claim reporting patterns and expected loss ratios.

 

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Auditing management’s best estimate of the liability for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses was complex and involved the use of our actuarial specialists due to the significant estimation uncertainty associated with evaluating management’s methods and assumptions in determining the Company’s recorded loss and loss adjustment expense reserves.

 

How We Addressed the Matter in Our Audit

We obtained an understanding, evaluated the design and tested the operating effectiveness of internal controls over management’s process for estimating loss and loss adjustment expense reserves. This included, among others, the review and approval processes management has in place for the methods and assumptions used in estimating the loss and loss adjustment expense reserves.

 

To test the Company’s estimate of loss and loss adjustment expense reserves, our audit procedures included among others, the use of our actuarial specialists to evaluate the selection and the weighting of actuarial methods used by management with those methods used in prior periods and those used in the industry. In addition, we also used our actuarial specialists to evaluate the assumptions used in the actuarial methods, by comparing the significant assumptions, including claims frequency and severity, historical payment and claims reporting patterns and expected loss ratios to the Company’s historical experience. We developed a range of reserve estimates which included performing independent projections for a sample of lines of business and compared the range of reserve estimates to the Company’s recorded reserves. We also performed an analysis of historical results of the development of the loss and loss adjustment expense reserves related to prior years.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2015.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

March 15, 2024

 

 

 

 

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GLOBAL INDEMNITY GROUP, LLC

Consolidated Balance Sheets

(In thousands, except share amounts)

 

ASSETS

 

December 31, 2023

 

 

December 31, 2022

 

Fixed maturities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Available for sale, at fair value (amortized cost: $1,322,092 and $1,301,723; net of allowance for expected credit losses of: $0 at December 31, 2023 and 2022

 

$

1,293,793

 

 

$

1,248,198

 

Equity securities, at fair value

 

 

16,508

 

 

 

17,520

 

Other invested assets

 

 

38,236

 

 

 

38,176

 

Total investments

 

 

1,348,537

 

 

 

1,303,894

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

 

38,037

 

 

 

38,846

 

Premium receivables, net of allowance for expected credit losses of $4,796 and $3,322 at December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively

 

 

102,158

 

 

 

168,743

 

Reinsurance receivables, net of allowance for expected credit losses of $8,992 
at December 31, 2023 and 2022

 

 

80,439

 

 

 

85,721

 

Funds held by ceding insurers

 

 

16,989

 

 

 

19,191

 

Deferred federal income taxes

 

 

36,802

 

 

 

47,099

 

Deferred acquisition costs

 

 

42,445

 

 

 

64,894

 

Intangible assets

 

 

14,456

 

 

 

14,810

 

Goodwill

 

 

4,820

 

 

 

4,820

 

Prepaid reinsurance premiums

 

 

4,958

 

 

 

17,421

 

Receivable for securities sold

 

 

3,858

 

 

 

 

Lease right of use assets

 

 

9,715

 

 

 

11,739

 

Other assets

 

 

26,362

 

 

 

23,597

 

Total assets

 

$

1,729,576

 

 

$

1,800,775

 

LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

 

 

 

 

 

 

Liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses

 

$

850,599

 

 

$

832,404

 

Unearned premiums

 

 

182,852

 

 

 

269,353

 

Ceded balances payable

 

 

2,642

 

 

 

17,241

 

Payable for securities purchased

 

 

 

 

 

66

 

Federal income tax payable

 

 

1,595

 

 

 

 

Contingent commissions

 

 

5,632

 

 

 

8,816

 

Lease liabilities

 

 

12,733

 

 

 

15,701

 

Other liabilities

 

 

24,770

 

 

 

30,965

 

Total liabilities

 

 

1,080,823

 

 

 

1,174,546

 

Commitments and contingencies (Note 17)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shareholders’ equity:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Series A cumulative fixed rate preferred shares, $1,000 par value; 100,000,000 shares authorized, shares issued and outstanding: 4,000 and 4,000 shares, respectively, liquidation preference: $1,000 per share and $1,000 per share, respectively

 

 

4,000

 

 

 

4,000

 

Common shares: no par value; 900,000,000 common shares authorized; class A common shares issued: 11,042,670 and 10,876,041, respectively; class A common shares outstanding: 9,771,429 and 10,073,660, respectively; class B common shares issued and outstanding: 3,793,612 and 3,793,612, respectively

 

 

 

 

 

 

Additional paid-in capital

 

 

454,791

 

 

 

451,305

 

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax

 

 

(22,863

)

 

 

(43,058

)

Retained earnings

 

 

244,988

 

 

 

233,468

 

Class A common shares in treasury, at cost: 1,271,241 and 802,381 shares, respectively

 

 

(32,163

)

 

 

(19,486

)

Total shareholders’ equity

 

 

648,753

 

 

 

626,229

 

Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity

 

$

1,729,576

 

 

$

1,800,775

 

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

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GLOBAL INDEMNITY GROUP, LLC

Consolidated Statements of Operations

(In thousands, except shares and per share data)

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Revenues:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross written premiums

 

$

416,397

 

 

$

727,603

 

 

$

682,122

 

Ceded written premiums

 

 

(17,078

)

 

 

(136,272

)

 

 

(102,054

)

Net written premiums

 

 

399,319

 

 

 

591,331

 

 

 

580,068

 

Change in net unearned premiums

 

 

74,038

 

 

 

11,140

 

 

 

15,542

 

Net earned premiums

 

 

473,357

 

 

 

602,471

 

 

 

595,610

 

Net investment income

 

 

55,444

 

 

 

27,627

 

 

 

37,020

 

Net realized investment gains (losses)

 

 

(2,107

)

 

 

(32,929

)

 

 

15,887

 

Other income

 

 

1,435

 

 

 

31,365

 

 

 

29,751

 

Total revenues

 

 

528,129

 

 

 

628,534

 

 

 

678,268

 

Losses and Expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net losses and loss adjustment expenses

 

 

289,153

 

 

 

359,228

 

 

 

384,964

 

Acquisition costs and other underwriting expenses

 

 

182,617

 

 

 

236,381

 

 

 

222,841

 

Corporate and other operating expenses

 

 

23,383

 

 

 

24,421

 

 

 

27,179

 

Interest expense

 

 

 

 

 

3,004

 

 

 

10,481

 

Loss on extinguishment of debt

 

 

 

 

 

3,529

 

 

 

 

Income before income taxes

 

 

32,976

 

 

 

1,971

 

 

 

32,803

 

Income tax expense

 

 

7,547

 

 

 

2,821

 

 

 

3,449

 

Net income (loss)

 

 

25,429

 

 

 

(850

)

 

 

29,354

 

Less: preferred stock distributions

 

 

440

 

 

 

440

 

 

 

440

 

Net income (loss) available to common shareholders

 

$

24,989

 

 

$

(1,290

)

 

$

28,914

 

Per share data:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income (loss) available to common shareholders (1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic

 

$

1.84

 

 

$

(0.09

)

 

$

2.00

 

Diluted

 

$

1.83

 

 

$

(0.09

)

 

$

1.97

 

Weighted-average number of shares outstanding

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic

 

 

13,553,168

 

 

 

14,482,164

 

 

 

14,426,739

 

Diluted

 

 

13,666,408

 

 

 

14,482,164

 

 

 

14,664,330

 

Cash distributions declared per common share

 

$

1.00

 

 

$

1.00

 

 

$

1.00

 

 

(1)
For the year ended December 31, 2022, “weighted average shares outstanding - basic” was used to calculate “diluted earnings per share” due to a net loss for the period.

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

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GLOBAL INDEMNITY GROUP, LLC

Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss)

(In thousands)

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Net income (loss)

 

$

25,429

 

 

$

(850

)

 

$

29,354

 

Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unrealized holding gains (losses)

 

 

18,892

 

 

 

(81,729

)

 

 

(27,384

)

Reclassification adjustment for (gains) losses included in net income (loss)

 

 

1,350

 

 

 

32,253

 

 

 

(278

)

Unrealized foreign currency translation gains (losses)

 

 

(47

)

 

 

14

 

 

 

(242

)

Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax

 

 

20,195

 

 

 

(49,462

)

 

 

(27,904

)

Comprehensive income (loss), net of tax

 

$

45,624

 

 

$

(50,312

)

 

$

1,450

 

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

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GLOBAL INDEMNITY GROUP, LLC

Consolidated Statements of Changes in Shareholders’ Equity

(In thousands, except share amounts)

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Number of Series A Cumulative Fixed Rate Preferred Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Number at beginning and end of period

 

 

4,000

 

 

 

4,000

 

 

 

4,000

 

Number of class A common shares issued:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Number at beginning of period

 

 

10,876,041

 

 

 

10,574,589

 

 

 

10,263,722

 

Common shares issued under share incentive plans, net of forfeitures

 

 

75,541

 

 

 

50,598

 

 

 

41,508

 

Common shares issued to directors

 

 

91,088

 

 

 

97,260

 

 

 

83,199

 

Share conversion

 

 

 

 

 

153,594

 

 

 

186,160

 

Number at end of period

 

 

11,042,670

 

 

 

10,876,041

 

 

 

10,574,589

 

Number of class B common shares issued:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Number at beginning of period

 

 

3,793,612

 

 

 

3,947,206

 

 

 

4,133,366

 

Share conversion

 

 

 

 

 

(153,594

)

 

 

(186,160

)

Number at end of period

 

 

3,793,612

 

 

 

3,793,612

 

 

 

3,947,206

 

Par value of Series A Cumulative Fixed Rate Preferred Shares:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance at beginning and end of period

 

$

4,000

 

 

$

4,000

 

 

$

4,000

 

Additional paid-in capital:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance at beginning of period

 

$

451,305

 

 

$

447,406

 

 

$

445,051

 

Share compensation plans

 

 

3,486

 

 

 

3,899

 

 

 

2,355

 

Balance at end of period

 

$

454,791

 

 

$

451,305

 

 

$

447,406

 

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), net of deferred income tax:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance at beginning of period

 

$

(43,058

)

 

$

6,404

 

 

$

34,308

 

Other comprehensive income (loss):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Change in unrealized holding gains (losses)

 

 

20,242

 

 

 

(49,476

)

 

 

(27,662

)

Unrealized foreign currency translation gains (losses)

 

 

(47

)

 

 

14

 

 

 

(242

)

Other comprehensive income (loss)

 

 

20,195

 

 

 

(49,462

)

 

 

(27,904

)

Balance at end of period

 

$

(22,863

)

 

$

(43,058

)

 

$

6,404

 

Retained earnings:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance at beginning of period

 

$

233,468

 

 

$

249,301

 

 

$

234,965

 

Net income (loss)

 

 

25,429

 

 

 

(850

)

 

 

29,354

 

Preferred share distributions

 

 

(440

)

 

 

(440

)

 

 

(440

)

Distributions to shareholders

 

 

(13,469

)

 

 

(14,543

)

 

 

(14,578

)

Balance at end of period

 

$

244,988

 

 

$

233,468

 

 

$

249,301

 

Number of treasury shares:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Number at beginning of period

 

 

802,381

 

 

 

17,496

 

 

 

 

Class A common shares purchased

 

 

468,860

 

 

 

923,036

 

 

 

17,318

 

Class A common shares purchased by GBLI director

 

 

 

 

 

(138,151

)

 

 

 

Forfeited shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

178

 

Number at end of period

 

 

1,271,241

 

 

 

802,381

 

 

 

17,496

 

Treasury shares, at cost:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance at beginning of period

 

$

(19,486

)

 

$

(490

)

 

$

 

Class A common shares purchased, at cost

 

 

(12,677

)

 

 

(22,335

)

 

 

(490

)

Class A common shares purchased by GBLI director

 

 

 

 

 

3,339

 

 

 

 

Balance at end of period

 

$

(32,163

)

 

$

(19,486

)

 

$

(490

)

Total shareholders’ equity

 

$

648,753

 

 

$

626,229

 

 

$

706,621

 

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

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GLOBAL INDEMNITY GROUP, LLC

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

(In thousands)

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Cash flows from operating activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income (loss)

 

$

25,429

 

 

$

(850

)

 

$

29,354

 

Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by operating
   activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amortization and depreciation

 

 

6,199

 

 

 

8,398

 

 

 

10,414

 

Amortization of debt issuance costs

 

 

 

 

 

41

 

 

 

142

 

Gross proceeds from sale of renewal rights

 

 

 

 

 

(30,000

)

 

 

(28,000

)

Impairment loss on right of use lease assets

 

 

 

 

 

488

 

 

 

1,515

 

Impairment loss on software

 

 

 

 

 

508

 

 

 

2,000

 

Impairment loss on goodwill and intangible assets

 

 

 

 

 

5,657

 

 

 

1,295

 

Restricted stock and stock option expense

 

 

3,486

 

 

 

3,899

 

 

 

2,355

 

Deferred federal income taxes

 

 

5,326

 

 

 

2,395

 

 

 

3,395

 

Amortization of bond premium and discount, net

 

 

(6,749

)

 

 

1,267

 

 

 

6,509

 

Net realized investment (gains) losses

 

 

2,107

 

 

 

32,929

 

 

 

(15,887

)

Loss on extinguishment of debt

 

 

 

 

 

3,529

 

 

 

 

(Income) loss from equity method investments, net of distributions

 

 

(2,369

)

 

 

6,549

 

 

 

(2,716

)

Changes in:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Premium receivables, net

 

 

66,585

 

 

 

(40,299

)

 

 

(19,013

)

Reinsurance receivables, net

 

 

5,282

 

 

 

14,143

 

 

 

(11,156

)

Funds held by ceding insurers

 

 

2,142

 

 

 

8,785

 

 

 

17,216

 

Unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses

 

 

18,195

 

 

 

72,500

 

 

 

97,093

 

Unearned premiums

 

 

(86,501

)

 

 

(47,213

)

 

 

25,071

 

Ceded balances payable

 

 

(14,599

)

 

 

(18,099

)

 

 

26,397

 

Other assets and liabilities

 

 

(14,970

)

 

 

(12,814

)

 

 

(16,507

)

Contingent commissions

 

 

(3,184

)

 

 

913

 

 

 

(2,929

)

Federal income tax payable

 

 

1,595

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deferred acquisition costs

 

 

22,449

 

 

 

(4,563

)

 

 

4,864

 

Prepaid reinsurance premiums

 

 

12,463

 

 

 

36,073

 

 

 

(40,613

)

Net cash provided by operating activities

 

 

42,886

 

 

 

44,236

 

 

 

90,799

 

Cash flows from investing activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proceeds from sale of fixed maturities

 

 

148,164

 

 

 

933,554

 

 

 

1,065,398

 

Proceeds from sale of equity securities

 

 

1,158

 

 

 

88,726

 

 

 

54,691

 

Proceeds from maturity of fixed maturities

 

 

280,115

 

 

 

81,546

 

 

 

87,057

 

Proceeds from maturity of preferred stock

 

 

500

 

 

 

1,000

 

 

 

666

 

Proceeds from other invested assets

 

 

2,309

 

 

 

107,925

 

 

 

17,082

 

Amounts received (paid) in connection with derivatives

 

 

 

 

 

12,726

 

 

 

2,723

 

Purchases of fixed maturities

 

 

(448,465

)

 

 

(1,164,683

)

 

 

(1,207,231

)

Purchases of equity securities

 

 

(111

)

 

 

(10,660

)

 

 

(42,905

)

Purchases of other invested assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(70,000

)

Gross proceeds from sale of renewal rights

 

 

 

 

 

30,000

 

 

 

28,000

 

Net cash provided by (used for) investing activities

 

 

(16,330

)

 

 

80,134

 

 

 

(64,519

)

Cash flows from financing activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Distributions paid to common shareholders

 

 

(14,248

)

 

 

(14,366

)

 

 

(14,431

)

Distributions paid to preferred shareholders

 

 

(440

)

 

 

(440

)

 

 

(440

)

Purchases of class A common shares

 

 

(12,677

)

 

 

(22,335

)

 

 

(490

)

Issuance of class A common shares

 

 

 

 

 

3,339

 

 

 

 

Redemption of subordinated notes

 

 

 

 

 

(130,000

)

 

 

 

Net cash used for financing activities

 

 

(27,365

)

 

 

(163,802

)

 

 

(15,361

)

Net change in cash and cash equivalents

 

 

(809

)

 

 

(39,432

)

 

 

10,919

 

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period

 

 

38,846

 

 

 

78,278

 

 

 

67,359

 

Cash and cash equivalents at end of period

 

$

38,037

 

 

$

38,846

 

 

$

78,278

 

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

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1.
Principles of Consolidation and Basis of Presentation

 

Global Indemnity Group, LLC (“Global Indemnity” or "the Company"), a Delaware limited liability company formed on June 23, 2020, replaced Global Indemnity Limited, incorporated in the Cayman Islands as an exempted company with limited liability, as the ultimate parent company of the Global Indemnity group of companies as a result of a redomestication transaction completed on August 28, 2020. This transaction resulted in the redomestication of the Company to the United States. Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s class A common shares are publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol GBLI. Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s predecessors have been publicly traded since 2003.

During the fourth quarter of 2023, the Company restructured its insurance operations to strengthen its market presence and enhance GBLI's focus on core products and made the decision to manage the business through two segments, Penn-America and Non-Core Operations. Management believes these segments allow users of the Company’s financial statements to better understand the Company's performance, better assess prospects for future net cash flows, and make more informed judgments about the Company as a whole. Segment results for prior years have been revised to reflect these changes. See Note 22 for additional information regarding segments.

Global Indemnity Group, LLC is a holding company that is classified as a publicly traded partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes and meets the qualifying income exception to maintain partnership status.

 

Global Indemnity Group, LLC owns all shares of its direct and indirect subsidiaries, including those of its insurance companies: United National Insurance Company, Diamond State Insurance Company, Penn-America Insurance Company, Penn-Star Insurance Company, and Penn-Patriot Insurance Company.

 

The insurance companies’ primary activity is providing insurance products across a distribution network that includes wholesale general agents, retail agents, and direct-to-consumer. The Company manages the distribution of its core product offerings through Penn-America (formerly known as Commercial Specialty). Penn-America offers specialty property and casualty products designed for GBLI's Wholesale Commercial, Programs, InsurTech, and Assumed Reinsurance product offerings. These product lines are offered in the excess and surplus lines marketplace. The Company also has a Non-Core Operations segment that contains lines of business that have been de-emphasized or are no longer being written. Collectively, the Company’s insurance subsidiaries are licensed in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

 

The consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with United States of America generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), which differs in certain respects from those principles followed in reports to insurance regulatory authorities. The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

 

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Global Indemnity Group, LLC and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

 

Certain amounts not reported in the Consolidated Statements of Operations for 2021 have been reported to conform to the presentation adopted in 2022. Specifically, the Company reported ceded written premiums and change in net unearned premiums in the presentation for 2022 and 2023. This change had no effect on total revenues, total expenses, or net income (loss) reported for the prior years.

2.
Sale of Renewal Rights

Manufactured & Dwelling Homes Business

 

On October 26, 2021, the Company sold the renewal rights related to its manufactured and dwelling homes business to K2 Insurance Services (“K2”) and American Family Mutual Insurance Company (“American Family”). Pursuant to the tripartite transaction, the Company received $28.0 million in cash in October 2021. The Company also retained the American Reliable 50-state licensed operating unit, $65 million of net capital supporting the business, and a related $42 million unearned premium reserve. The Company currently leases office space in Scottsdale, Arizona. As part of this sale, K2 is subleasing approximately one third of the Scottsdale, Arizona office space. Currently, the Company intends to exercise the early termination clause in its Scottsdale, Arizona lease. The Company expects it will receive $1.6 million in sublease payments from K2 between October 2021 and October 2026.

 

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To facilitate the transaction, American Reliable retained the specialty residential property business in Florida and Louisiana and also retained business that was previously placed in runoff. American Reliable commenced the non-renewal of manufactured home insurance in Florida beginning on March 11, 2022, for policies expiring on or after July 10, 2022. American Reliable and United National non-renewed manufactured home and dwelling insurance in Louisiana beginning on or about January 31, 2022, for policies renewing on or after March 7, 2022. American Family assumed 100% of the risks for all policies covered under the renewal rights agreement which are written or renewed after October 26, 2021, except for policies covering properties in the state of Florida. The Company also retained risk for business previously placed in runoff and policies in Louisiana. There were no specialty residential property policies in-force in Florida and Louisiana as of December 31, 2023.

 

In addition, effective November 30, 2021, the Company and American Family reached an agreement where American Family agreed to reinsure 100% of the Company’s unearned premium reserves of the same types as the policies comprising the manufactured and dwelling homes business lines noted above that were in force as of November 30, 2021. The approximate amount of the unearned premium reserves at November 30, 2021 was $33.8 million. The Company received a 40% ceding commission which included a provision for a 4% claims administration fee to be paid by the Company directly to K2 Claims.

 

The gross proceeds from this sale of $28.0 million are included in other income on the Company’s consolidated statements of operations for the year ended December 31, 2021. Legal expenses and merger and acquisition fees related to the sale were $2.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2021. In addition, the Company recorded an impairment of goodwill, intangible assets, software, and lease costs in the amount of $1.1 million, $0.2 million, $2.0 million, and $1.5 million, respectively, for the year ended December 31, 2021. The Company also recorded an additional impairment of lease cost in the amount of $0.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2022. The impairments and expenses related to sale are included on the Company’s consolidated statements of operations as follows:

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

 (Dollars in thousands)

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Acquisition costs and other underwriting expenses

$

 

 

$

644

 

 

$

 

Corporate and other operating expenses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7,202

 

Total impairments and expenses related to sale

$

 

 

$

644

 

$

7,202

 

 

See Note 8 for additional information on the impairment of goodwill and intangible assets and Note 14 for additional information on impairment of leases.

 

Farm, Ranch & Stable

 

On August 8, 2022, the Company sold the renewal rights related to its Farm, Ranch & Stable business for policies written on or after August 8, 2022 to Everett Cash Mutual Insurance Company for $30.0 million. The Company retained the unearned premium reserves for business written prior to August 8, 2022.

The gross proceeds from this sale of $30.0 million are included in other income on the Company’s consolidated statements of operations for the year ended December 31, 2022. In addition, the Company also recorded an impairment of goodwill, intangible assets, software, and lease costs in the amount of $0.6 million, $5.1 million, $0.5 million, and $0.5 million, respectively, for the year ended December 31, 2022. Legal expenses and merger and acquisition fees related to the sale were $2.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2022. The impairments and expenses related to sale are included on the Company’s consolidated statements of operations as follows:

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

 (Dollars in thousands)

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Acquisition costs and other underwriting expenses

$

 

 

$

1,034

 

 

$

 

Corporate and other operating expenses

 

 

 

 

 

8,142

 

 

 

 

Total impairments and expenses related to sale

$

 

 

$

9,176

 

$

 

 

See Note 8 for additional information on the impairment of goodwill and intangible assets and Note 14 for additional information on impairment of leases.

 

In conjunction with this sale, Everett Cash Mutual Insurance Company also acquired the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, American Reliable Insurance Company, on December 31, 2022 for an amount equal to book value, which was $10.0 million, at the time of closing.

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3.
Restructuring

 

The Company restructured its insurance operations to strengthen its market presence and enhance its focus on GBLI’s core products. As a result, the Company exited its four brokerage divisions: Professional Liability, Excess Casualty, Environmental, and Middle Market Property. The Company ceased writing new business and non-renewed existing policies for these four divisions. The restructuring plan, which was initiated in the fourth quarter of 2022, was completed in the first quarter of 2023.

 

In connection with the restructuring plan, the Company incurred restructuring costs of $3.4 million in 2022 and $2.0 million in 2023 for total restructuring costs of $5.4 million.

The following table summarizes charges incurred by expense type and the remaining liability as of December 31, 2023 and 2022:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Consolidated Statements of Operations Line

 

Employee Termination

 

 

Lease Right of Use Asset Impairment

 

 

Total

 

Charges incurred in 2022

 

Corporate and other operating expenses

 

$

2,635

 

 

$

 

 

$

2,635

 

Charges incurred in 2022

 

Acquisition costs and other underwriting expenses (1)

 

 

 

 

 

812

 

 

 

812

 

Non-cash asset charges

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(812

)

 

 

(812

)

Liability at December 31, 2022

 

 

 

 

2,635

 

 

 

 

 

 

2,635

 

Charges incurred in 2023

 

Corporate and other operating expenses

 

 

1,997

 

 

 

 

 

1,997

 

Cash payments in 2023

 

 

 

 

(4,554

)

 

 

 

 

 

(4,554

)

Liability at December 31, 2023

 

 

 

$

78

 

 

$

 

 

$

78

 

 

(1) These charges were recorded within the Company's Non-Core Operations segment.

 

Any information technology development initiatives related to business lines within Non-Core Operations have been discontinued.

 

4.
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Investments

The Company’s investments in fixed maturities, which are classified as available for sale, and equity securities are carried at their fair value. Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. The fair values of the Company's fixed maturities and equity securities are determined on the basis of quoted market prices where available. If quoted market prices are not available, the Company uses third-party pricing services to assist in determining fair value. In many instances, these services examine the pricing of similar instruments to estimate fair value. The Company purchases bonds with the expectation of holding them to their maturity; however, changes to the portfolio are sometimes required to assure it is appropriately matched to liabilities. In addition, changes in financial market conditions and tax considerations may cause the Company to sell an investment before it matures. The difference between amortized cost and fair value of the Company’s fixed maturity portfolio, net of the effect of deferred income taxes, is reflected in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) within shareholders’ equity and, accordingly, has no effect on net income (loss) other than for the credit loss component of impairments and losses recognized as a result of the intent to sell. Equity securities are measured at fair value with the changes in fair value recognized in net income (loss).

 

For investments in limited partnerships and limited liability companies where the ownership interest is less than 3%, the Company carries these investments at fair value, and the change in the difference between cost and the fair value of these interests, net of the effect of deferred income taxes, is reflected in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) within shareholders' equity and, accordingly, has no effect on net income (loss). The Company uses the equity method to account for investments in limited partnerships and limited liability companies where its ownership interest exceeds 3%. The equity method of accounting for an investment in a limited partnership and limited liability company requires that its cost basis be updated to account for the income or loss earned on the investment. The receipt of results for investments in limited partnerships and limited liability companies may vary. If results are received on a timely basis, they are included in current results. If they are not received on a timely basis, they are recorded on a one quarter lag. The recording of such results are applied consistently for each investment once the timing of receiving the results has been established. The income or loss associated with the limited partnerships and limited liability companies is reflected in the consolidated statements of operations, and the adjusted cost basis approximates fair value.

The Company’s investments in other invested assets were valued at $38.2 million as of December 31, 2023 and 2022. These amounts relate to investments in limited partnerships and limited liability companies whose carrying value approximates fair value.

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Net realized gains and losses on investments are determined based on the first-in, first-out method.

 

The Company regularly performs various analytical valuation procedures with respect to its investments, including reviewing each available for sale debt security in an unrealized loss position to assess whether the decline in fair value below amortized cost basis has resulted from a credit loss or other factors. In assessing whether a credit loss exists, the Company compares the present value of the cash flows expected to be collected from the security to the amortized cost basis of the security. If the present value of the cash flows expected to be collected is less than the amortized cost basis of the security, a credit loss exists and an allowance for expected credit losses is recorded. Subsequent changes in the allowances are recorded in the period of change as either credit loss expense or reversal of credit loss expense. Any impairments related to factors other than credit losses and the intent to sell are recorded through other comprehensive income, net of taxes.

 

For fixed maturities, the factors considered in reaching the conclusion that a credit loss exists include, among others, whether:

 

(1)
the extent to which the fair value is less than the amortized cost basis;
(2)
the issuer is in financial distress;
(3)
the investment is secured;
(4)
a significant credit rating action occurred;
(5)
scheduled interest payments were delayed or missed;
(6)
changes in laws or regulations have affected an issuer or industry;
(7)
the investment has an unrealized loss and was identified by the Company’s investment manager as an investment to be sold before recovery or maturity;
(8)
the investment failed cash flow projection testing to determine if anticipated principal and interest payments will be realized; and
(9)
changes in US Treasury rates and/or credit spreads since original purchase to identify whether the unrealized loss is simply due to interest rate movement.

 

According to accounting guidance for debt securities in an unrealized loss position, the Company is required to assess whether it has the intent to sell the debt security or more likely than not will be required to sell the debt security before the anticipated recovery. If either of these conditions is met, any allowance for expected credit losses is written off and the amortized cost basis is written down to the fair value of the fixed maturity security with any incremental impairment reported in earnings. That new amortized cost basis shall not be adjusted for subsequent recoveries in fair value.

 

The Company elected the practical expedient to exclude accrued interest from both the fair value and the amortized cost basis of the available for sale debt securities for the purposes of identifying and measuring an impairment and to not measure an allowance for expected credit losses for accrued interest receivables. Accrued interest receivable is written off through net realized investment gains (losses) at the time the issuer of the bond defaults or is expected to default on payment. The Company made an accounting policy election to present the accrued interest receivable balance with other assets on the Company’s consolidated statements of financial position. Accrued interest receivable related to fixed maturities was $7.5 million and $8.4 million as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

 

Variable Interest Entities

A Variable Interest Entity (“VIE”) refers to an investment in which an investor holds a controlling interest that is not based on the majority of voting rights. Under the VIE model, the party that has the power to exercise significant management influence and maintain a controlling financial interest in the entity’s economics is said to be the primary beneficiary, and is required to consolidate the entity within their results. Other entities that participate in a VIE, for which their financial interests fluctuate with changes in the fair value of the investment entity’s net assets but do not have significant management influence and the ability to direct the VIE’s significant economic activities are said to have a variable interest in the VIE but do not consolidate the VIE in their financial results.

The Company has variable interests in two VIEs for which it is not the primary beneficiary. These investments are accounted for under the equity method of accounting as their ownership interest exceeds 3% of their respective investments.

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Cash and Cash Equivalents

For the purpose of the statements of cash flows, the Company considers all liquid instruments with an original maturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents. The Company has a cash management program that provides for the investment of excess cash balances primarily in short-term money market instruments. Generally, bank balances exceed federally insured limits. The carrying amount of cash and cash equivalents approximates fair value.

At December 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company had approximately $36.9 million and $26.0 million, respectively, of cash and cash equivalents that was invested in a diversified portfolio of high quality short-term debt securities.

Valuation of Premium Receivables

The Company evaluates the collectability of premium receivables based on a combination of factors. In instances in which the Company is aware of a specific circumstance where a party may be unable to meet its financial obligations to the Company, a specific allowance for expected credit losses against amounts due is recorded to reduce the net receivable to the amount reasonably believed by management to be collectible. For all remaining balances, the allowance is based upon the Company’s ongoing review of key aspects of amounts outstanding, including but not limited to, length of collection periods, direct placement with collection agencies, solvency of insured or agent, terminated agents, and other relevant factors. The allowance for expected credit losses was $4.8 million and $3.3 million as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

Goodwill and Intangible Assets

The Company tests for impairment of goodwill at least annually and more frequently as circumstances warrant in accordance with applicable accounting guidance. Accounting guidance allows for the testing of goodwill for impairment using both qualitative and quantitative factors. Impairment of goodwill is recognized only if the carrying amount of the reporting unit, including goodwill, exceeds the fair value of the reporting unit. The amount of the impairment loss would be equal to the excess carrying value of the goodwill over the implied fair value of the reporting unit goodwill.

Impairment of intangible assets with an indefinite useful life is tested at least annually and more frequently as circumstances warrant in accordance with applicable accounting guidance. Accounting guidance allows for the testing of indefinite lived intangible assets for impairment using both qualitative and quantitative factors. Impairment of indefinite lived intangible assets is recognized only if the carrying amount of the intangible assets exceeds the fair value of said assets. The amount of the impairment loss would be equal to the excess carrying value of the assets over the fair value of said assets.

Intangible assets that are not deemed to have an indefinite useful life are amortized over their estimated useful lives. The carrying amounts of definite lived intangible assets are regularly reviewed for indicators of impairment in accordance with applicable accounting guidance. Impairment is recognized only if the carrying amount of the intangible asset is in excess of its undiscounted projected cash flows. The impairment is measured as the difference between the carrying amount and the estimated fair value of the asset.

See Note 8 for additional information on goodwill and intangible assets as well as the results of qualitative impairment assessments performed.

Reinsurance

In the normal course of business, the Company seeks to reduce the loss that may arise from events that cause unfavorable underwriting results by reinsuring certain levels of risk from various areas of exposure with reinsurers. Amounts receivable from reinsurers are estimated in a manner consistent with the reinsured policy and the reinsurance contract.

The Company regularly reviews the collectability of reinsurance receivables. An allowance for uncollectible reinsurance receivables is recognized based upon the Company’s ongoing review of key aspects of amounts outstanding, including but not limited to, length of collection periods, disputes, applicable coverage defenses, insolvent reinsurers, financial strength of solvent reinsurers based on AM Best Ratings and other relevant factors. Any changes in the allowance resulting from this review are included in net losses and loss adjustment expenses on the consolidated statements of operations during the period in which the determination is made. The allowance for expected credit losses was $9.0 million as of December 31, 2023 and 2022,.

The applicable accounting guidance requires that the reinsurer must assume significant insurance risk under the reinsured portions of the underlying insurance contracts and that there must be a reasonably possible chance that the reinsurer may realize a significant loss from the transaction. The Company has evaluated its reinsurance contracts and concluded that each contract qualifies for reinsurance accounting treatment pursuant to this guidance.

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Income Taxes

Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that includes the enactment date.

A valuation allowance is provided when it is more likely than not that some portion of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. The deferred tax asset balance is analyzed regularly by management. This assessment requires significant judgment and considers, among other matters, the nature, frequency and severity of current and cumulative losses, forecasts of future profitability, the duration of carryforward periods, and tax planning strategies and/or actions. Management believes that it is more likely than not that the results of future operations can generate sufficient taxable income to realize the remaining deferred income tax assets, and accordingly, the Company has not established any valuation allowances.

Deferred Acquisition Costs

The costs of acquiring new and renewal insurance and reinsurance contracts primarily include commissions, premium taxes and certain other costs that are directly related to the successful acquisition of new and renewal insurance and reinsurance contracts. The excess of the Company’s costs of acquiring new and renewal insurance and reinsurance contracts over the related ceding commissions earned from reinsurers is capitalized as deferred acquisition costs and amortized over the period in which the related premiums are earned.

The amortization of deferred acquisition costs for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021 was $120.9 million, $150.9 million, and $144.9 million, respectively.

Premium Deficiency

A premium deficiency is recognized if the sum of expected loss and loss adjustment expenses and unamortized acquisition costs exceeds related unearned premium after consideration of investment income. This evaluation is done at a distribution and product line/treaty level. Any future expected loss on the related unearned premium is recorded first by impairing the unamortized acquisition costs on the related unearned premium followed by an increase to loss and loss adjustment expense reserves on additional expected loss in excess of unamortized acquisition costs. No premium deficiency reserve existed as of December 31, 2023 or 2022.

Derivative Instruments

The Company used derivative instruments to manage its exposure to cash flow variability from interest rate risk and limit exposure to severe equity market changes. The derivative instruments were carried on the balance sheet at fair value and included in other assets and other liabilities. Changes in the fair value of the derivative instruments and the periodic net interest settlements under the derivatives instruments were recognized as net realized investment gains (losses) on the consolidated statements of operations.

Subordinated Notes

The carrying amounts reported in the balance sheet, if any, represent the outstanding balances, net of deferred issuance cost. See Note 13 for details.

Unpaid Losses and Loss Adjustment Expenses

The liability for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses represents the Company’s best estimate of future amounts needed to pay losses and related settlement expenses with respect to events insured by the Company. This liability is based upon the accumulation of individual case estimates for losses reported prior to the close of the accounting period with respect to direct business, estimates received from ceding companies with respect to assumed reinsurance, and estimates of unreported losses.

The process of establishing the liability for unpaid losses and loss adjustment is complex, requiring the use of informed actuarially based estimates and Management’s judgment. In some cases, significant periods of time, up to several years or more, may elapse between the occurrence of an insured loss and the reporting of that loss to the Company. To establish this liability, the Company regularly reviews and updates the methods of making such estimates and establishing the resulting liabilities. Any resulting adjustments are recorded in consolidated statements of operations during the period in which the determination is made.

Share Repurchases

 

Shares repurchased from employees or third parties by Global Indemnity Group, LLC are held as treasury stock and recorded at cost until formally retired by Global Indemnity Group, LLC.

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Retirement of Treasury Stock

Upon the formal retirement of treasury stock, Global Indemnity Group, LLC offsets the par value of the treasury stock that is being retired against common shares and reflects any excess of cost over par value as a deduction from Additional Paid-in Capital.

Share Redemptions

When shares are redeemed, Global Indemnity Group, LLC offsets the par value of the redeemed shares against common shares and reflects any excess of cost over par value as a deduction from Retained Earnings.

Premiums

Premiums are recognized as revenue ratably over the term of the respective policies and treaties. Unearned premiums are computed on a pro rata basis to the day of expiration.

Mandatory reinstatement premiums assessed on reinsurance policies are earned in the period of the loss event that gave rise to the reinstatement premiums.

Contingent Commissions

Certain professional general agencies of GBLI are paid special incentives, referred to as contingent commissions, when results of business produced by these agencies are more favorable than predetermined thresholds. Similarly, in some circumstances, companies that cede business to GBLI are paid profit commissions based on the profitability of the ceded portfolio. These commissions are charged to other underwriting expenses when incurred.

Share-Based Compensation

The Company accounts for stock options and other equity based compensation using the modified prospective application of the fair value-based method permitted by the appropriate accounting guidance. See Note 18 for details.

Earnings per Share

Basic earnings per share have been calculated by dividing net income (loss) available to common shareholders by the weighted-average common shares outstanding. In periods of net income, diluted earnings per share have been calculated by dividing net income available to common shareholders by the sum of the weighted-average common shares outstanding and the weighted-average common share equivalents outstanding, which include options and other equity awards. In periods of net loss, diluted earnings per share is the same as basic earnings per share. See Note 20 for details.

Foreign Currency

At times, the Company maintains investments and cash accounts in foreign currencies related to the operations of its business. At period-end, the Company re-measures non-U.S. currency financial assets to their current U.S. dollar equivalent. The resulting gain or loss for foreign denominated fixed maturity investments, if any, is reflected in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) within shareholders’ equity; whereas, the gain or loss on foreign denominated cash accounts and equity securities is reflected in income during the period. Financial liabilities, if any, are generally adjusted within the reserving process. However, for known losses on claims to be paid in foreign currencies, the Company re-measures the liabilities to their current U.S. dollar equivalent each period end with the resulting gain or loss reflected in income during the period. Net transaction gains and losses, primarily comprised of re-measurement of known losses on claims to be paid in foreign currencies, were a loss of $0.5 million, a gain of $0.3 million, and a gain of $0.5 million for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively.

 

Leases

 

The Company determines if an arrangement is a lease at inception. Leases with a term of 12 months or less are not recorded on the consolidated balance sheets. For leases with a term of greater than 12 months, lease right-of-use assets (“ROU”) and lease liabilities are included on the consolidated balance sheets.

 

Lease ROU assets and lease liabilities are recognized based on the present value of the future minimum lease payments over the lease term at the commencement date. The Company’s leases do not provide an implicit rate; therefore, the Company uses its incremental borrowing rate at the commencement date in determining the present value of future payments. The ROU asset is calculated using the initial lease liability amount, plus any lease payments made at or before the commencement date, minus any lease incentives received, plus any initial direct costs incurred. Lease expenses for minimum lease payments are recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term.

 

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The Company’s lease agreements may contain both lease and non-lease components which are accounted separately. The Company elected the practical expedient on not separating lease components from non-lease components for its equipment leases.

 

Rental income derived from subleases are recognized on a straight-line basis over the operating lease term.

Other Income

Other income is primarily comprised of fee income, foreign exchange gains and losses, and gain on sale of the renewal rights.

 

Capitalized Software Costs

Capitalized software costs, which represent costs directly related to obtaining, developing or upgrading internal use software, are capitalized during the application development stage. These costs generally consist of internal personnel costs and external consulting fees. Capitalized software costs, which are included in other assets on the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets, are amortized using the straight-line method over its estimated useful life beginning when the software is put into production. Internal and external costs incurred during the preliminary project stage, training costs, most data conversion costs, and maintenance costs are charged to expense as incurred.

Capitalized software costs were $4.0 million and $4.1 million at December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. Amortization expense related to capitalized software for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021 was $4.9 million, $6.1 million, and $7.1 million, respectively.

5.
Investments

The amortized cost and estimated fair value of the Company’s fixed maturities securities were as follows as of December 31, 2023 and 2022:

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Amortized
Cost

 

 

Allowance for Expected Credit Losses

 

 

Gross
Unrealized
Gains

 

 

Gross
Unrealized
Losses

 

 

Estimated
Fair Value

 

As of December 31, 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fixed maturities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. treasuries

 

$

497,099

 

 

$

 

 

$

515

 

 

$

(3,391

)

 

$

494,223

 

Obligations of states and political subdivisions

 

 

27,326

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1,176

)

 

 

26,150

 

Mortgage-backed securities

 

 

63,173

 

 

 

 

 

 

229

 

 

 

(4,475

)

 

 

58,927

 

Asset-backed securities

 

 

207,375

 

 

 

 

 

 

668

 

 

 

(5,091

)

 

 

202,952

 

Commercial mortgage-backed securities

 

 

84,062

 

 

 

 

 

 

12

 

 

 

(4,994

)

 

 

79,080

 

Corporate bonds

 

 

298,526

 

 

 

 

 

 

116

 

 

 

(6,929

)

 

 

291,713

 

Foreign corporate bonds

 

 

144,531

 

 

 

 

 

 

40

 

 

 

(3,823

)

 

 

140,748

 

Total fixed maturities

 

$

1,322,092

 

 

$

 

 

$

1,580

 

 

$

(29,879

)

 

$

1,293,793

 

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Amortized
Cost

 

 

Allowance for Expected Credit Losses

 

 

Gross
Unrealized
Gains

 

 

Gross
Unrealized
Losses

 

 

Estimated
Fair Value

 

As of December 31, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fixed maturities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. treasuries

 

$

352,533

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

(8,430

)

 

$

344,103

 

Obligations of states and political subdivisions

 

 

33,471

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1,876

)

 

 

31,595

 

Mortgage-backed securities

 

 

67,560

 

 

 

 

 

 

165

 

 

 

(5,609

)

 

 

62,116

 

Asset-backed securities

 

 

198,161

 

 

 

 

 

 

390

 

 

 

(9,151

)

 

 

189,400

 

Commercial mortgage-backed securities

 

 

104,777

 

 

 

 

 

 

20

 

 

 

(6,133

)

 

 

98,664

 

Corporate bonds

 

 

353,622

 

 

 

 

 

 

16

 

 

 

(14,858

)

 

 

338,780

 

Foreign corporate bonds

 

 

191,599

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(8,059

)

 

 

183,540

 

Total fixed maturities

 

$

1,301,723

 

 

$

 

 

$

591

 

 

$

(54,116

)

 

$

1,248,198

 

As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company’s investments in equity securities consist of the following:

 

 

 

December 31,

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

Common stock

 

$

 

 

$

1,271

 

Preferred stock

 

 

16,508

 

 

 

16,249

 

Total

 

$

16,508

 

 

$

17,520

 

 

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Excluding U.S. treasuries and limited partnerships, the Company did not hold any debt or equity investments in a single issuer in excess of 2.1% and 2.4% of shareholders' equity at December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

The amortized cost and estimated fair value of the Company’s fixed maturities portfolio classified as available for sale at December 31, 2023, by contractual maturity, are shown below. Actual maturities may differ from contractual maturities because borrowers may have the right to call or prepay obligations with or without call or prepayment penalties.

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Amortized
Cost

 

 

Estimated
Fair Value

 

Due in one year or less

 

$

663,046

 

 

$

660,141

 

Due in one year through five years

 

 

279,876

 

 

 

270,667

 

Due in five years through ten years

 

 

13,018

 

 

 

11,619

 

Due after ten years

 

 

11,542

 

 

 

10,407

 

Mortgage-backed securities

 

 

63,173

 

 

 

58,927

 

Asset-backed securities

 

 

207,375

 

 

 

202,952

 

Commercial mortgage-backed securities

 

 

84,062

 

 

 

79,080

 

Total

 

$

1,322,092

 

 

$

1,293,793

 

 

The following table contains an analysis of the Company’s fixed income securities with gross unrealized losses that are not deemed to have credit losses, categorized by the period that the securities were in a continuous loss position as of December 31, 2023. The fair value amounts reported in the table are estimates that are prepared using the process described in Note 7.

 

 

 

 

Less than 12 months

 

 

12 months or longer

 

 

Total

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Fair Value

 

 

Gross
Unrealized
Losses

 

 

Fair Value

 

 

Gross
Unrealized
Losses

 

 

Fair Value

 

 

Gross
Unrealized
Losses

 

Fixed maturities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. treasuries

 

 

55,447

 

 

 

(342

)

 

 

239,254

 

 

 

(3,049

)

 

 

294,701

 

 

 

(3,391

)

Obligations of states and political subdivisions

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

26,150

 

 

 

(1,176

)

 

 

26,150

 

 

 

(1,176

)

Mortgage-backed securities

 

 

12,432

 

 

 

(406

)

 

 

39,734

 

 

 

(4,069

)

 

 

52,166

 

 

 

(4,475

)

Asset-backed securities

 

 

38,828

 

 

 

(469

)

 

 

108,947

 

 

 

(4,622

)

 

 

147,775

 

 

 

(5,091

)

Commercial mortgage-backed securities

 

 

13

 

 

 

(2

)

 

 

76,467

 

 

 

(4,992

)

 

 

76,480

 

 

 

(4,994

)

Corporate bonds

 

 

34,658

 

 

 

(264

)

 

 

231,816

 

 

 

(6,665

)

 

 

266,474

 

 

 

(6,929

)

Foreign corporate bonds

 

 

7,096

 

 

 

(13

)

 

 

111,750

 

 

 

(3,810

)

 

 

118,846

 

 

 

(3,823

)

Total fixed maturities

 

$

148,474

 

 

$

(1,496

)

 

$

834,118

 

 

$

(28,383

)

 

$

982,592

 

 

$

(29,879

)

 

 

The following table contains an analysis of the Company’s fixed income securities with gross unrealized losses that are not deemed to have credit losses, categorized by the period that the securities were in a continuous loss position as of December 31, 2022. The fair value amounts reported in the table are estimates that are prepared using the process described in Note 7.

 

 

 

Less than 12 months

 

 

12 months or longer

 

 

Total

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Fair Value

 

 

Gross
Unrealized
Losses

 

 

Fair Value

 

 

Gross
Unrealized
Losses

 

 

Fair Value

 

 

Gross
Unrealized
Losses

 

Fixed maturities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. treasuries

 

$

335,781

 

 

$

(7,518

)

 

$

8,322

 

 

$

(912

)

 

$

344,103

 

 

$

(8,430

)

Obligations of states and political subdivisions

 

 

27,772

 

 

 

(1,378

)

 

 

3,778

 

 

 

(498

)

 

 

31,550

 

 

 

(1,876

)

Mortgage-backed securities

 

 

51,517

 

 

 

(4,228

)

 

 

7,860

 

 

 

(1,381

)

 

 

59,377

 

 

 

(5,609

)

Asset-backed securities

 

 

97,857

 

 

 

(3,610

)

 

 

62,689

 

 

 

(5,541

)

 

 

160,546

 

 

 

(9,151

)

Commercial mortgage-backed securities

 

 

67,926

 

 

 

(4,072

)

 

 

27,907

 

 

 

(2,061

)

 

 

95,833

 

 

 

(6,133

)

Corporate bonds

 

 

261,123

 

 

 

(8,480

)

 

 

71,192

 

 

 

(6,378

)

 

 

332,315

 

 

 

(14,858

)

Foreign corporate bonds

 

 

150,308

 

 

 

(5,469

)

 

 

31,232

 

 

 

(2,590

)

 

 

181,540

 

 

 

(8,059

)

Total fixed maturities

 

$

992,284

 

 

$

(34,755

)

 

$

212,980

 

 

$

(19,361

)

 

$

1,205,264

 

 

$

(54,116

)

 

 

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Subject to the risks and uncertainties in evaluating the potential impairment of a security’s value, the impairment evaluation conducted by the Company as of December 31, 2023 concluded the unrealized losses discussed above are non-credit losses on securities where management does not intend to sell, and it is more likely than not that the Company will not be forced to sell the security before recovery. The impairment evaluation process is discussed in the “Investment” section of Note 4 (“Summary of Significant Accounting Policies”).

The following is a description, by asset type, of the methodology and significant inputs that the Company used to measure the amount of credit loss recognized in earnings, if any:

 

U.S. treasuries – As of December 31, 2023, gross unrealized losses related to U.S. treasuries were $3.391 million. To assess whether the decline in fair value below amortized cost has resulted from a credit loss or other factors, macroeconomic and market analysis is conducted in evaluating these securities. Consideration is given to the interest rate environment, duration and yield curve management of the portfolio, sector allocation and security selection. Based on the analysis performed, the Company did not recognize a credit loss on U.S. treasuries during the period.

Obligations of states and political subdivisions – As of December 31, 2023, gross unrealized losses related to obligations of states and political subdivisions were $1.176 million. To assess whether the decline in fair value below amortized cost has resulted from a credit loss or other factors, elements that may influence the performance of the municipal bond market are considered in evaluating these securities such as investor expectations, supply and demand patterns, and current versus historical yield and spread relationships. The analysis relies on the output of fixed income credit analysts, as well as dedicated municipal bond analysts who perform extensive in-house fundamental analysis on each issuer, regardless of their rating by the major agencies. Based on the analysis performed, the Company did not recognize a credit loss on obligations of states and political subdivisions during the period.

 

Mortgage-backed securities (“MBS”) – As of December 31, 2023, gross unrealized losses related to mortgage-backed securities were $4.475 million. To assess whether the decline in fair value below amortized cost has resulted from a credit loss or other factors, mortgage-backed securities are modeled to project principal losses under downside, base, and upside scenarios for the economy and home prices. The primary assumption that drives the security and loan level modeling is the Home Price Index (“HPI”) projection. These forecasts incorporate not just national macro-economic trends, but also regional impacts to arrive at the most granular and accurate projections. These assumptions are incorporated into the model as a basis to generate delinquency probabilities, default curves, loss severity curves, and voluntary prepayment curves at the loan level within each deal. The model utilizes HPI-adjusted current loan to value, payment history, loan terms, loan modification history, and borrower characteristics as inputs to generate expected cash flows and principal loss for each bond under various scenarios. Based on the analysis performed, the Company did not recognize a credit loss on mortgage-backed securities during the period.

Asset backed securities (“ABS”) - As of December 31, 2023, gross unrealized losses related to asset backed securities were $5.091 million. The weighted average credit enhancement for the Company’s asset backed portfolio is 36.1. This represents the percentage of pool losses that can occur before an asset backed security will incur its first dollar of principal losses. To assess whether the decline in fair value below amortized cost has resulted from a credit loss or other factors, every ABS transaction is analyzed on a stand-alone basis. This analysis involves a thorough review of the collateral, prepayment, and structural risk in each transaction. Additionally, the analysis includes an in-depth credit analysis of the originator and servicer of the collateral. The analysis projects an expected loss for a deal given a set of assumptions specific to the asset type. These assumptions are used to calculate at what level of losses the deal will incur its first dollar of principal loss. The major assumptions used to calculate this ratio are loss severities, recovery lags, and no advances on principal and interest. Based on the analysis performed, the Company did not recognize a credit loss on asset backed securities during the period.

Commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”) - As of December 31, 2023, gross unrealized losses related to the CMBS portfolio were $4.994 million. The weighted average credit enhancement for the Company’s CMBS portfolio is 47.3. This represents the percentage of pool losses that can occur before a commercial mortgage-backed security will incur its first dollar of principal loss. To assess whether the decline in fair value below amortized cost has resulted from a credit loss or other factors, a loan level analysis is utilized where every underlying CMBS loan is re-underwritten based on a set of assumptions reflecting expectations for the future path of the economy. Each loan is analyzed over time using a series of tests to determine if a credit event will occur during the life of the loan. Inherent in this process are several economic scenarios and their corresponding rent/vacancy and capital market states. The five primary credit events that frame the analysis include loan modifications, term default, balloon default, extension, and ability to pay off at balloon. The resulting output is the expected loss adjusted cash flows for each bond under the base case and distressed scenarios. Based on the analysis performed, the Company did not recognize a credit loss on commercial mortgage-backed securities during the period.

Corporate bonds - As of December 31, 2023, gross unrealized losses related to corporate bonds were $6.929 million. To assess whether the decline in fair value below amortized cost has resulted from a credit loss or other factors, analysis for this asset class includes maintaining detailed financial models that include a projection of each issuer’s future financial performance, including prospective debt servicing capabilities, capital structure composition, and the value of the collateral. The analysis incorporates the macroeconomic environment, industry conditions in which the issuer operates, the issuer’s current competitive position, its

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vulnerability to changes in the competitive and regulatory environment, issuer liquidity, issuer commitment to bondholders, issuer creditworthiness, and asset protection. Part of the process also includes running downside scenarios to evaluate the expected likelihood of default as well as potential losses in the event of default. Based on the analysis performed, the Company did not recognize a credit loss on corporate bonds during the period.

Foreign bonds – As of December 31, 2023, gross unrealized losses related to foreign bonds were $3.823 million. To assess whether the decline in fair value below amortized cost has resulted from a credit loss or other factors, detailed financial models are maintained that include a projection of each issuer’s future financial performance, including prospective debt servicing capabilities, capital structure composition, and the value of the collateral. The analysis incorporates the macroeconomic environment, industry conditions in which the issuer operates, the issuer’s current competitive position, its vulnerability to changes in the competitive and regulatory environment, issuer liquidity, issuer commitment to bondholders, issuer creditworthiness, and asset protection. Part of the process also includes running downside scenarios to evaluate the expected likelihood of default as well as potential losses in the event of default. Based on the analysis performed, the Company did not recognize a credit loss on foreign bonds during the period.

 

The Company has evaluated its investment portfolio and has determined that an allowance for expected credit losses on its investments is not required.

The Company recorded the following impairments on its investment portfolio for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021 and are related to securities in an unrealized loss position where the Company had an intent to sell the securities:

 

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022 (1)

 

 

2021

 

Fixed maturities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Impairment related to intent to sell

 

$

 

 

$

(26,205

)

 

$

 

Total

 

$

 

 

$

(26,205

)

 

$

 

 

(1) In response to a rising interest rate environment, the Company took action early in April 2022 to shorten the duration of its fixed maturities portfolio. In connection with these actions, the Company identified fixed maturities securities with a weighted average life of five years or greater as having an intent to sell resulting in other-than-temporary impairment losses. The majority of which were sold in the 2nd quarter of 2022. Most of the proceeds from the sale of these securities were reinvested into fixed income investments with maturities of two years. As a result of these actions, the Company's book yield rose over time. Book yield was approximately 2.2% at December 31, 2021 and 4.0% at December 31, 2023.

 

Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss), Net of Tax

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax, as of December 31, 2023 and 2022 was as follows:

 

 

 

December 31,

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

Net unrealized gains (losses) from:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fixed maturities

 

$

(28,299

)

 

$

(53,525

)

Foreign currency fluctuations

 

 

(187

)

 

 

(127

)

Deferred taxes

 

 

5,623

 

 

 

10,594

 

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax

 

$

(22,863

)

 

$

(43,058

)

 

The following tables present the changes in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) by components, for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022:

 

Year Ended December 31, 2023
(Dollars in thousands)

 

Unrealized Gains
and Losses on
Available for Sale
Securities

 

 

Foreign Currency
Items

 

 

Accumulated Other
Comprehensive
Income (Loss)

 

Beginning balance, net of tax

 

$

(42,958

)

 

$

(100

)

 

$

(43,058

)

Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassification, before tax

 

 

23,572

 

 

 

(60

)

 

 

23,512

 

Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income, before tax

 

 

1,654

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,654

 

Other comprehensive income (loss), before tax

 

 

25,226

 

 

 

(60

)

 

 

25,166

 

Income tax benefit (expense)

 

 

(4,983

)

 

 

12

 

 

 

(4,971

)

Ending balance, net of tax

 

$

(22,715

)

 

$

(148

)

 

$

(22,863

)

 

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Year Ended December 31, 2022
(Dollars in thousands)

 

Unrealized Gains
and Losses on
Available for Sale
Securities

 

 

Foreign Currency
Items

 

 

Accumulated Other
Comprehensive
Income (Loss)

 

Beginning balance, net of tax

 

$

6,519

 

 

$

(115

)

 

$

6,404

 

Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassification, before tax

 

 

(101,255

)

 

 

18

 

 

 

(101,237

)

Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income, before tax

 

 

39,610

 

 

 

 

 

 

39,610

 

Other comprehensive income (loss), before tax

 

 

(61,645

)

 

 

18

 

 

 

(61,627

)

Income tax benefit (expense)

 

 

12,168

 

 

 

(3

)

 

 

12,165

 

Ending balance, net of tax

 

$

(42,958

)

 

$

(100

)

 

$

(43,058

)

 

The reclassifications out of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 were as follows:

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

 

 

Amounts Reclassified from
Accumulated Other
Comprehensive Income

 

 

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

Details about Accumulated Other
Comprehensive Income Components

 

Affected Line Item in the Consolidated Statements of Operations

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

Unrealized gains and losses on available for sale securities

 

Other net realized investment (gains) losses

 

$

1,654

 

 

$

13,405

 

 

 

Other than temporary impairment losses on investments

 

 

 

 

 

26,205

 

 

 

Total before tax

 

$

1,654

 

 

$

39,610

 

 

 

Income tax expense (benefit)

 

 

(304

)

 

 

(7,357

)

 

 

Total reclassifications, net of tax

 

$

1,350

 

 

$

32,253

 

 

Net Realized Investment Gains (Losses)

The components of net realized investment gains (losses) for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021 were as follows:

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Fixed maturities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross realized gains

 

$

49

 

 

$

688

 

 

$

11,390

 

Gross realized losses

 

 

(1,703

)

 

 

(40,298

)

 

 

(11,048

)

Net realized gains (losses)

 

 

(1,654

)

 

 

(39,610

)

 

 

342

 

Equity securities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross realized gains

 

 

1,061

 

 

 

2,289

 

 

 

15,350

 

Gross realized losses

 

 

(1,514

)

 

 

(5,681

)

 

 

(1,910

)

Net realized gains (losses)

 

 

(453

)

 

 

(3,392

)

 

 

13,440

 

Derivatives:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross realized gains

 

 

 

 

 

12,844

 

 

 

8,035

 

Gross realized losses

 

 

 

 

 

(2,771

)

 

 

(5,930

)

Net realized gains (losses) (1)

 

 

 

 

 

10,073

 

 

 

2,105

 

Total net realized investment gains (losses)

 

$

(2,107

)

 

$

(32,929

)

 

$

15,887

 

 

(1)
Includes periodic net interest settlements related to the derivatives of $3.0 million and $5.6 million for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.

The following table shows the calculation of the portion of realized gains and losses related to equity securities held as of December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021:

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Net gains (losses) recognized during the period on equity securities

 

$

(453

)

 

$

(3,392

)

 

$

13,440

 

Less: net gains (losses) recognized during the period on equity securities sold during the period

 

 

(36

)

 

 

10,577

 

 

 

4,058

 

Unrealized gains (losses) recognized during the reporting period on equity securities

 

$

(417

)

 

$

(13,969

)

 

$

9,382

 

 

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The proceeds from sales and redemptions of available for sale and equity securities resulting in net realized investment gains (losses) for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021 were as follows:

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Fixed maturities

 

$

148,164

 

 

$

933,554

 

 

$

1,065,398

 

Equity securities

 

 

1,158

 

 

 

88,726

 

 

 

54,691

 

 

Net Investment Income

The sources of net investment income for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021 were as follows:

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Fixed maturities

 

$

49,987

 

 

$

33,852

 

 

$

25,751

 

Equity securities

 

 

917

 

 

 

1,100

 

 

 

2,692

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

 

1,593

 

 

 

790

 

 

 

363

 

Other invested assets

 

 

4,463

 

 

 

(5,966

)

 

 

10,856

 

Total investment income

 

 

56,960

 

 

 

29,776

 

 

 

39,662

 

Investment expense

 

 

(1,516

)

 

 

(2,149

)

 

 

(2,642

)

Net investment income

 

$

55,444

 

 

$

27,627

 

 

$

37,020

 

 

As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company did not own any fixed maturity securities that were non-income producing for the preceding twelve months.

 

The Company’s total investment return on a pre-tax basis for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021 were as follows:

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Net investment income

 

$

55,444

 

 

$

27,627

 

 

$

37,020

 

Net realized investment gains (losses)

 

 

(2,107

)

 

 

(32,929

)

 

 

15,887

 

Change in unrealized holding gains (losses)

 

 

25,166

 

 

 

(61,627

)

 

 

(34,363

)

Net realized and unrealized investment returns

 

 

23,059

 

 

 

(94,556

)

 

 

(18,476

)

Total investment return

 

$

78,503

 

 

$

(66,929

)

 

$

18,544

 

Total investment return %

 

 

5.7

%

 

 

(4.7

%)

 

 

1.2

%

Average investment portfolio (1)

 

$

1,366,553

 

 

$

1,437,327

 

 

$

1,490,933

 

(1)
Average of total cash and invested assets, net of receivable/payable for securities purchased and sold, as of the beginning and end of the period.

Insurance Enhanced Asset-Backed and Credit Securities

 

As of December 31, 2023, the Company held insurance enhanced municipal bonds with a market value of approximately $4.9 million, which represented 0.4% of the Company’s total cash and invested assets, net of payable/receivable for securities purchased and sold. The financial guarantors of the Company’s $4.9 million municipal bonds include Assured Guaranty Corporation ($3.7 million) and Ambac Financial Group ($1.2 million).

The Company had no direct investments in the entities that have provided financial guarantees or other credit support to any security held by the Company at December 31, 2023.

Bonds Held on Deposit

Certain cash and cash equivalents and bonds available for sale were deposited with various governmental authorities in accordance with statutory requirements, were held as collateral, or were held in trust. The fair values were as follows as of December 31, 2023 and 2022:

 

 

 

Estimated Fair Value

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

December 31, 2023

 

 

December 31, 2022

 

On deposit with governmental authorities

 

$

19,262

 

 

$

19,290

 

Held in trust pursuant to third-party requirements

 

 

150,796

 

 

 

161,901

 

Total (1)

 

$

170,058

 

 

$

181,191

 

 

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(1)
Includes cash and cash equivalents of $9.0 million and $3.7 million at December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively, with the remainder related to bonds available for sale.

 

Variable Interest Entities

A Variable Interest Entity (“VIE”) refers to an investment in which an investor holds a controlling interest that is not based on the majority of voting rights. Under the VIE model, the party that has the power to exercise significant management influence and maintain a controlling financial interest in the entity’s economics is said to be the primary beneficiary, and is required to consolidate the entity within their results. Other entities that participate in a VIE, for which their financial interests fluctuate with changes in the fair value of the investment entity’s net assets but do not have significant management influence and the ability to direct the VIE’s significant economic activities are said to have a variable interest in the VIE but do not consolidate the VIE in their financial results.

The Company has variable interests in two VIE’s for which it is not the primary beneficiary. These investments are accounted for under the equity method of accounting as their ownership interest exceeds 3% of their respective investments.

The carrying value of one of the Company’s VIE’s, which invests in distressed securities and assets, was $4.0 million and $4.8 million as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. The Company’s maximum exposure to loss from this VIE, which factors in future funding commitments, was $18.3 million and $19.0 million as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. The carrying value and maximum exposure to loss of a second VIE that invests in Real Estate Investment Trust (“REIT”) qualifying assets was $8.2 million and $9.8 million as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. The Company’s investment in VIEs is included in other invested assets on the consolidated balance sheets with changes in carrying value recorded in the consolidated statements of operations.

 

6.
Derivative Instruments

Derivatives were used by the Company to reduce risks from changes in interest rates and limit exposure to severe equity market changes. The Company used interest rate swaps with terms to exchange, at specified intervals, the difference between fixed rate and floating rate interest amounts as calculated by reference to an agreed notional amount. The Company has also used exchange-traded futures contracts, which gave the holder the right and obligation to participate in market movements at a future date, to allow the Company to react faster to market conditions. When using derivatives, the Company posted collateral and settled variation margin in cash on a daily basis equal to the amount of the derivatives’ change in value.

The Company accounted for the interest rate swaps and futures as non-hedge instruments and recognized the fair value of the interest rate swaps in other assets or other liabilities on the consolidated balance sheets with the changes in fair value recognized as net realized investment gains or losses in the consolidated statements of operations. The Company was ultimately responsible for the valuation of the interest rate swaps. To aid in determining the estimated fair value of the interest rate swaps, the Company relied on the forward interest rate curve and information obtained from a third-party financial institution.

 

The following table summarizes the net gains (losses) included in the consolidated statements of operations for changes in the fair value of the derivatives and the periodic net interest settlements under the derivatives for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021:

 

 

 

Consolidated Statements of

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Operations Line

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Interest rate swap agreements

 

Net realized investment gains (losses)

 

$

 

 

$

10,073

 

 

$

2,424

 

Futures contracts on bonds

 

Net realized investment gains (losses)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(319

)

 

 

 

 

$

 

 

$

10,073

 

 

$

2,105

 

 

The Company terminated its outstanding interest rate swaps in the fourth quarter of 2022 and was not utilizing interest rate swap agreements as of December 31, 2022. As of December 31, 2021, the Company was due $1.8 million for funds it needed to post to execute the swap transaction and $9.8 million for margin calls made in connection with the interest rate swaps. These amounts are included in other assets on the consolidated balance sheets. There are no outstanding amounts related to the interest rate swap agreements on the consolidated balance sheets as of December 31, 2023 or 2022.

 

7.
Fair Value Measurements

The accounting standards related to fair value measurements define fair value, establish a framework for measuring fair value, outline a fair value hierarchy based on inputs used to measure fair value, and enhance disclosure requirements for fair value measurements. These standards do not change existing guidance as to whether or not an instrument is carried at fair value. The Company has determined that its fair value measurements are in accordance with the requirements of these accounting standards.

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The Company’s invested assets are carried at their fair value and are categorized based upon a fair value hierarchy:

Level 1 – inputs utilize quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets that the Company has the ability to access at the measurement date.
Level 2 – inputs utilize other than quoted prices included in Level 1 that are observable for similar assets, either directly or indirectly.
Level 3 – inputs are unobservable for the asset, and include situations where there is little, if any, market activity for the asset.

In certain cases, the inputs used to measure fair value may fall into different levels of the fair value hierarchy. In such cases, the level in the fair value hierarchy within which the fair value measurement falls has been determined based on the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement in its entirety. The Company’s assessment of the significance of a particular input to the fair value measurement in its entirety requires judgment, and considers factors specific to the asset.

The following table presents information about the Company’s invested assets measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of December 31, 2023 and 2022 and indicates the fair value hierarchy of the valuation techniques utilized by the Company to determine such fair value.

 

As of December 31, 2023

 

Fair Value Measurements

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Level 1

 

 

Level 2

 

 

Level 3

 

 

Total

 

Assets:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fixed maturities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. treasuries

 

$

494,223

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

494,223

 

Obligations of states and political subdivisions

 

 

 

 

 

26,150

 

 

 

 

 

 

26,150

 

Mortgage-backed securities

 

 

 

 

 

58,927

 

 

 

 

 

 

58,927

 

Commercial mortgage-backed securities

 

 

 

 

 

79,080

 

 

 

 

 

 

79,080

 

Asset-backed securities

 

 

 

 

 

202,952

 

 

 

 

 

 

202,952

 

Corporate bonds

 

 

 

 

 

291,713

 

 

 

 

 

 

291,713

 

Foreign corporate bonds

 

 

 

 

 

140,748

 

 

 

 

 

 

140,748

 

Total fixed maturities

 

 

494,223

 

 

 

799,570

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,293,793

 

Equity securities

 

 

 

 

 

16,508

 

 

 

 

 

 

16,508

 

Total assets measured at fair value

 

$

494,223

 

 

$

816,078

 

 

$

 

 

$

1,310,301

 

 

 

As of December 31, 2022

 

Fair Value Measurements

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Level 1

 

 

Level 2

 

 

Level 3

 

 

Total

 

Assets:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fixed maturities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. treasuries

 

$

344,103

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

344,103

 

Obligations of states and political subdivisions

 

 

 

 

 

31,595

 

 

 

 

 

 

31,595

 

Mortgage-backed securities

 

 

 

 

 

61,156

 

 

 

960

 

 

 

62,116

 

Commercial mortgage-backed securities

 

 

 

 

 

98,664

 

 

 

 

 

 

98,664

 

Asset-backed securities

 

 

 

 

 

189,073

 

 

 

327

 

 

 

189,400

 

Corporate bonds

 

 

 

 

 

336,767

 

 

 

2,013

 

 

 

338,780

 

Foreign corporate bonds

 

 

 

 

 

183,540

 

 

 

 

 

 

183,540

 

Total fixed maturities

 

 

344,103

 

 

 

900,795

 

 

 

3,300

 

 

 

1,248,198

 

Equity securities

 

 

 

 

 

16,249

 

 

 

1,271

 

 

 

17,520

 

Total assets measured at fair value

 

$

344,103

 

 

$

917,044

 

 

$

4,571

 

 

$

1,265,718

 

 

The securities classified as Level 1 in the above tables consist of U.S. treasuries actively traded on an exchange.

The securities classified as Level 2 in the above tables consist primarily of fixed maturities and preferred stocks. Based on the typical trading volumes and the lack of quoted market prices for fixed maturities and preferred stocks, security prices are derived through recent reported trades for identical or similar securities making adjustments through the reporting date based upon available market observable information. If there are no recent reported trades, matrix or model processes are used to develop a security price where future cash flow expectations are developed based upon collateral performance and discounted at an estimated market rate. Included in the pricing of asset-backed securities, collateralized mortgage obligations, and mortgage-backed securities are estimates of the rate of future prepayments of principal over the remaining life of the securities. Such estimates are derived based on the characteristics of the underlying structure and prepayment speeds previously experienced at the interest rate levels projected for the underlying collateral.

 

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The investments classified as Level 3 in the above table consist of fixed maturities and equity securities with unobservable inputs.

 

The following table presents changes in Level 3 investments measured at fair value on a recurring basis for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021:

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Beginning balance

 

$

4,571

 

 

$

2,769

 

 

$

 

Total gains (realized / unrealized):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Included in accumulated other comprehensive income

 

 

30

 

 

 

(21

)

 

 

(35

)

Included in earnings attributable to realized gains / losses

 

 

(290

)

 

 

(61

)

 

 

60

 

Transfers into level 3

 

 

 

 

 

857

 

 

 

1,400

 

Transfers out of level 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1,815

)

Amortization of bond premium and discount, net

 

 

5

 

 

 

6

 

 

 

1

 

Purchases

 

 

332

 

 

 

2,304

 

 

 

3,286

 

Sales

 

 

(4,648

)

 

 

(1,283

)

 

 

(128

)

Ending balance

 

 

 

 

 

4,571

 

 

 

2,769

 

Gains (losses) included in earnings attributable to the change in unrealized gains (losses) related to assets still held at end of reporting period

 

$

(155

)

 

$

95

 

 

$

 

Fair Value of Alternative Investments

Other invested assets consist of limited partnerships whose carrying value approximates fair value.

The following table provides the fair value and future funding commitments related to these investments at December 31, 2023 and 2022.

 

 

 

December 31, 2023

 

 

December 31, 2022

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Fair Value

 

 

Future Funding
Commitment

 

 

Fair Value

 

 

Future Funding
Commitment

 

European Non-Performing Loan Fund, LP (1)

 

$

4,048

 

 

$

14,214

 

 

$

4,832

 

 

$

14,214

 

Mortgage Debt Fund, LP (2)

 

 

8,172

 

 

 

 

 

 

9,771

 

 

 

 

Global Debt Fund, LP (3)

 

 

26,016

 

 

 

 

 

 

23,573

 

 

 

 

Total

 

$

38,236

 

 

$

14,214

 

 

$

38,176

 

 

$

14,214

 

(1)
This limited partnership invests in distressed securities and assets through senior and subordinated, secured and unsecured debt and equity, in both public and private large-cap and middle-market companies. The Company does not have the ability to sell or transfer its limited partnership interest without consent from the general partner. The Company does not have the contractual option to redeem its limited partnership interest but receives distributions based on the liquidation of the underlying assets.
(2)
This limited partnership invests in REIT qualifying assets such as mortgage loans, investor property loans, and commercial mortgage loans. The Company does not have the ability to sell or transfer its limited partnership interest without consent from the general partner. The Company does not have the contractual option to redeem its limited partnership interest but receives distributions based on the liquidation of the underlying assets.
(3)
This limited partnership invests in performing, stressed or distressed securities and loans across the global fixed income markets. The Company does have the contractual option to withdraw all or a portion of its limited partnership interest by providing notice to the fund.

Limited Liability Companies and Limited Partnerships with ownership interest exceeding 3%

The Company uses the equity method to account for investments in limited liability companies and limited partnerships where its ownership interest exceeds 3%. The equity method of accounting for an investment in limited liability companies and limited partnerships requires that its cost basis be updated to account for the income or loss earned on the investment. In the Fair Value of Alternative Investments table above, all of the investments are booked on a one quarter lag due to non-availability of data at the time the financial statements are prepared. The investment income (loss) associated with the limited liability companies and limited partnerships whose ownership interest exceeds 3% is reflected in the consolidated statements of operations in the amounts of $0.8 million, ($5.0) million, and $10.0 million for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively.

Pricing

The Company’s pricing vendors provide prices for all investment categories except for investments in limited liability companies and limited partnerships. Two primary vendors are utilized to provide prices for equity and fixed maturity securities.

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The following is a description of the valuation methodologies used by the Company’s pricing vendors for investment securities carried at fair value:

Equity security prices are received from primary and secondary exchanges.

 

Corporate and agency bonds, as well as preferred stock, are evaluated by utilizing a spread to a benchmark curve. Bonds with similar characteristics are grouped into specific sectors. Inputs for both asset classes consist of trade prices, broker quotes, the new issue market, and prices on comparable securities.

 

Data from commercial vendors is aggregated with market information, then converted into an option adjusted spread (“OAS”) matrix and prepayment model used for collateralized mortgage obligations (“CMO”). CMOs are categorized with mortgage-backed securities in the tables listed above. For asset-backed securities, spread data is derived from trade prices, dealer quotations, and research reports. For both asset classes, evaluations utilize standard inputs plus new issue data, and collateral performance. The evaluated pricing models incorporate cash flows, broker quotes, market trades, historical prepayment speeds, and dealer projected speeds.

 

For obligations of state and political subdivisions, an attribute-based modeling system is used. The pricing model incorporates trades, market clearing yields, market color, and fundamental credit research.

 

U.S. treasuries are evaluated by obtaining feeds from a number of live data sources including primary and secondary dealers as well as inter-dealer brokers.
For mortgage-backed securities, various external analytical products are utilized and purchased from commercial vendors.

The Company performs certain procedures to validate whether the pricing information received from the pricing vendors is reasonable, to ensure that the fair value determination is consistent with accounting guidance, and to ensure that its assets are properly classified in the fair value hierarchy. The Company’s procedures include, but are not limited to:

Reviewing periodic reports provided by the Investment Manager that provides information regarding rating changes and securities placed on watch. This procedure allows the Company to understand why a particular security’s market value may have changed or may potentially change.
Understanding and periodically evaluating the various pricing methods and procedures used by the Company’s pricing vendors to ensure that investments are properly classified within the fair value hierarchy.
On a quarterly basis, the Company corroborates investment security prices received from its pricing vendors by obtaining pricing from a second pricing vendor for a sample of securities.

During 2023 and 2022, the Company has not adjusted quotes or prices obtained from the pricing vendors.

8.
Goodwill and Intangible Assets

Goodwill

 

As a result of an acquisition in 2010, the Company has goodwill of $4.8 million within the Penn-America segment. The goodwill represents the excess purchase price over the Company’s best estimate of the fair value of the assets acquired.

 

As a result of an acquisition in 2015, the Company had goodwill of $1.7 million. Of this amount, $0.6 million was allocated to its Farm, Ranch & Stable business and $1.1 million was allocated to its specialty property business. This goodwill, which was part of the Non-Core Operations segment, was impaired due to the sale of the renewal rights related to Farm, Ranch & Stable business and manufactured and dwelling homes business. An impairment loss of $0.6 million and $1.1 million was included in corporate and other operating expenses on the Company’s consolidated statements of operations for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Please see Note 2 for additional information on the sale of the renewal rights related to the Company’s Farm, Ranch & Stable business and the Company's manufactured and dwelling homes business.

 

Impairment testing performed in 2023 did not result in an impairment of goodwill acquired.

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The changes in the carrying amount of goodwill for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 are as follows:

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Penn-America

 

 

Non-Core Operations

 

 

Total

 

Balance as of January 1, 2022

 

$

4,820

 

 

$

578

 

 

$

5,398

 

Impairment

 

 

 

 

 

(578

)

 

 

(578

)

Balance as of December 31, 2022

 

 

4,820

 

 

 

 

 

 

4,820

 

Impairment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance as of December 31, 2023

 

$

4,820

 

 

$

 

 

$

4,820

 

Accumulated impairment losses were $0.6 million at December 31, 2022. There were no accumulated impairment losses at December 31, 2023.

Intangible assets

The following table presents details of the Company’s intangible assets as of December 31, 2023:

 

(Dollars in thousands)
Description

 

Weighted Average Amortization Period

 

Cost

 

 

Accumulated
Amortization

 

 

Impairment

 

 

Net Value

 

Trademarks

 

Indefinite

 

$

4,800

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

4,800

 

Tradenames

 

Indefinite

 

 

4,200

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4,200

 

State insurance licenses

 

Indefinite

 

 

5,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5,000

 

Customer relationships

 

15 years

 

 

5,300

 

 

 

4,844

 

 

 

 

 

 

456

 

 

 

 

 

$

19,300

 

 

$

4,844

 

 

$

 

 

$

14,456

 

 

The following table presents details of the Company’s intangible assets as of December 31, 2022:

 

(Dollars in thousands)
Description

 

Weighted Average Amortization Period

 

Cost

 

 

Accumulated
Amortization

 

 

Impairment

 

 

Net Value

 

Trademarks

 

Indefinite

 

$

4,800

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

4,800

 

Tradenames

 

Indefinite

 

 

4,200

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4,200

 

State insurance licenses

 

Indefinite

 

 

10,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

5,000

 

 

 

5,000

 

Customer relationships

 

15 years

 

 

5,300

 

 

 

4,490

 

 

 

 

 

 

810

 

Agent relationships

 

10 years

 

 

900

 

 

 

649

 

 

 

251

 

 

 

 

Tradenames

 

7 years

 

 

600

 

 

 

600

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

25,800

 

 

$

5,739

 

 

$

5,251

 

 

$

14,810

 

 

Amortization related to the Company’s definite lived intangible assets was $0.4 million, $0.4 million, and $0.5 million for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively. The weighted average amortization period for total definite lived intangible assets was 15.0 years and 13.6 years at December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

The Company expects that amortization expense for the next five years will be as follows:

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

 

 

2024

 

$

353

 

2025

 

 

103

 

2026

 

 

 

2027

 

 

 

2028

 

 

 

 

Intangible assets with indefinite lives

As of both December 31, 2023 and 2022, indefinite lived intangible assets, which are comprised of tradenames, trademarks, and state insurance licenses, was $14.0 million.

 

State licenses with a net value of $5.0 million, within the Company’s Non-Core Operations segment, were impaired due to the sale of the renewal rights related to the Company’s Farm, Ranch & Stable business. This impairment loss of $5.0 million was included in

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corporate and other operating expenses on the Company’s consolidated statements of operations for the year ended December 31, 2022. Please see Note 2 for additional information on the sale of the renewal rights related to the Company’s Farm, Ranch & Stable business.

 

Other than the impairment of state insurance licenses due to the sale of the Farm, Ranch & Stable renewal rights, there was no impairment of intangible assets with indefinite lives in 2023, 2022, and 2021.

Intangible assets with definite lives

As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, definite lived intangible assets, net of accumulated amortization, were $0.5 million and $0.8 million, respectively, and were comprised of customer relationships, agent relationships, and tradenames.

Agent relationships with a net value of $0.1 million were impaired due to the sale of the renewal rights related to the Company's Farm, Ranch & Stable business and agent relationships with a net value of $0.2 million were impaired due to the sale of renewal rights related to the Company’s manufactured and dwelling homes business. Both of these impairments were within the Company’s Non-Core Operations segment. These impairment losses of $0.1 million and $0.2 million was included in corporate and other operating expenses on the Company’s consolidated statements of operations for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Please see Note 2 for additional information on the sale of the renewal rights related to the Company’s Farm, Ranch & Stable business and the Company's manufactured and dwelling homes business.

Other than the impairments of agent relationships due to the sales of renewal rights, there was no impairment of intangible assets with definite lives in 2023, 2022, and 2021.

9.
Allowance for Expected Credit Losses - Premium Receivables and Reinsurance Receivables

For premium receivables, the allowance is based upon the Company’s ongoing review of key aspects of amounts outstanding, including but not limited to, length of collection periods, direct placement with collection agencies, solvency of insured or agent, terminated agents, and other relevant factors.

 

The following table is an analysis of the allowance for expected credit losses related to the Company's premium receivables for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022:

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

Beginning balance

 

$

3,322

 

 

$

2,996

 

Current period provision for expected credit losses

 

 

1,636

 

 

 

1,796

 

Write-offs

 

 

(162

)

 

 

(1,470

)

Ending balance

 

$

4,796

 

 

$

3,322

 

 

For reinsurance receivables, the allowance is based upon the Company’s ongoing review of key aspects of amounts outstanding, including but not limited to, length of collection periods, disputes, applicable coverage defenses, insolvent reinsurers, financial strength of solvent reinsurers based on AM Best Ratings and other relevant factors.

 

The Company's allowance for expected credit losses related to the reinsurance receivables was $9.0 million at December 31, 2023 and 2022.

 

10.
Reinsurance

The Company cedes risk to unrelated reinsurers on a pro rata (“quota share”) and excess of loss basis in the ordinary course of business to limit its net loss exposure on insurance contracts. Reinsurance ceded arrangements do not discharge the Company of primary liability. Moreover, reinsurers may fail to pay the Company due to a lack of reinsurer liquidity, perceived improper underwriting, and losses for risks that are excluded from reinsurance coverage and other similar factors, all of which could adversely affect the Company’s financial results.

The Company had the following reinsurance balances as of December 31, 2023 and 2022:

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

December 31, 2023

 

 

December 31, 2022

 

Reinsurance receivables, net

 

$

80,439

 

 

$

85,721

 

Collateral securing reinsurance receivables

 

 

(8,752

)

 

 

(8,937

)

Reinsurance receivables, net of collateral

 

$

71,687

 

 

$

76,784

 

Allowance for expected credit losses

 

$

8,992

 

 

$

8,992

 

Prepaid reinsurance premiums

 

 

4,958

 

 

 

17,421

 

 

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As of December 31, 2023, the Company had the following aggregated unsecured reinsurance receivables from one reinsurer that exceeded 3% of shareholders’ equity. Unsecured reinsurance receivables include amounts receivable for paid and unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses, less amounts secured by collateral.

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Reinsurance Receivables

 

 

AM Best Ratings
 (As of December 31, 2023)

Munich Re America Corporation

 

$

41,213

 

 

A+

 

The effect of reinsurance on premiums written and earned is as follows:

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Written

 

 

Earned

 

For the year ended December 31, 2023:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Direct business

 

$

350,748

 

 

$

376,288

 

Reinsurance assumed

 

 

65,649

 

 

 

126,611

 

Reinsurance ceded

 

 

(17,078

)

 

 

(29,542

)

Net premiums

 

$

399,319

 

 

$

473,357

 

For the year ended December 31, 2022:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Direct business

 

$

573,412

 

 

$

589,131

 

Reinsurance assumed

 

 

154,191

 

 

 

135,896

 

Reinsurance ceded

 

 

(136,272

)

 

 

(122,556

)

Net premiums

 

$

591,331

 

 

$

602,471

 

For the year ended December 31, 2021:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Direct business

 

$

584,467

 

 

$

578,171

 

Reinsurance assumed

 

 

97,655

 

 

 

78,880

 

Reinsurance ceded

 

 

(102,054

)

 

 

(61,441

)

Net premiums

 

$

580,068

 

 

$

595,610

 

Ceded losses and loss adjustment expenses incurred were $27.6 million, $48.7 million, and $34.9 million for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively.

 

11.
Income Taxes

 

Global Indemnity Group, LLC is a publicly traded partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes and meets the qualifying income exception to maintain partnership status. As a publicly traded partnership, Global Indemnity Group, LLC is generally not subject to federal income tax and most state income taxes. However, income earned by the subsidiaries of Global Indemnity Group, LLC is subject to corporate tax in the United States and certain foreign jurisdictions.

As of December 31, 2023, the statutory income tax rates of the countries where the Company conducts or conducted business are 21% in the United States, 0% in Bermuda, and 25% on non-trading income, 33% on capital gains and 12.5% on trading income in the Republic of Ireland. The statutory income tax rate of each country is applied against the expected annual taxable income of the Company in each country to estimate the annual income tax expense.

The Company's income before income taxes is derived from its U.S. subsidiaries for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021.

 

The following table summarizes the components of income tax expense:

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Current income tax expense:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Foreign

 

$

14

 

 

$

4

 

 

$

54

 

U.S. Federal

 

 

2,207

 

 

 

422

 

 

 

 

Total current income tax expense

 

 

2,221

 

 

 

426

 

 

 

54

 

Deferred income tax expense:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. Federal

 

 

5,326

 

 

 

2,395

 

 

 

3,395

 

Total deferred income tax expense

 

 

5,326

 

 

 

2,395

 

 

 

3,395

 

Total income tax expense

 

$

7,547

 

 

$

2,821

 

 

$

3,449

 

 

The weighted average expected tax provision has been calculated using income before income taxes in each jurisdiction multiplied by that jurisdiction’s applicable statutory tax rate.

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The following table summarizes the differences between the tax provision for financial statement purposes and the expected tax provision at the weighted average tax rate:

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Amount

 

 

% of Pre-
Tax Income

 

 

Amount

 

 

% of Pre-
Tax Income

 

 

Amount

 

 

% of Pre-
Tax Income

 

Expected tax provision at weighted average tax rate

 

$

6,925

 

 

 

21.0

%

 

$

414

 

 

 

21.0

%

 

$

6,889

 

 

 

21.0

%

Adjustments:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non-deductible executive compensation

 

 

1,753

 

 

 

5.3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dividend exclusion

 

 

(76

)

 

 

(0.2

)

 

 

(89

)

 

 

(4.5

)

 

 

(78

)

 

 

(0.2

)

Change in tax status

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

700

 

 

 

35.5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parent income treated as partnership for tax

 

 

(1,260

)

 

 

(3.8

)

 

 

2,156

 

 

 

109.4

 

 

 

(4,057

)

 

 

(12.4

)

Other

 

 

205

 

 

 

0.6

 

 

 

(360

)

 

 

(18.3

)

 

 

695

 

 

 

2.1

 

Effective income tax expense

 

$

7,547

 

 

 

22.9

%

 

$

2,821

 

 

 

143.1

%

 

$

3,449

 

 

 

10.5

%

 

The effective income tax expense rate for 2023 was 22.9%, compared with an effective income tax expense rate of 143.1% for 2022 and an effective income tax expense rate of 10.5% for 2021. The difference between years is primarily due to a change in income or loss at the parent company which is treated as a partnership for tax.

The tax effects of temporary differences that give rise to significant portions of the net deferred tax assets at December 31, 2023 and 2022 are presented below:

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

Deferred tax assets:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discounted unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses

 

$

9,668

 

 

$

9,522

 

Unearned premiums

 

 

7,472

 

 

 

10,581

 

Net operating loss carryforward

 

 

16,540

 

 

 

24,454

 

Partnership K1 basis differences

 

 

753

 

 

 

1,234

 

Capital loss carryforwards

 

 

4,241

 

 

 

2,338

 

Investment impairments

 

 

337

 

 

 

124

 

Stock options

 

 

416

 

 

 

1,465

 

Stat-to-GAAP reinsurance reserve

 

 

1,668

 

 

 

1,668

 

Unrealized loss on securities available-for-sale

 

 

5,583

 

 

 

10,568

 

Depreciation and amortization

 

 

1,368

 

 

 

1,211

 

Software

 

 

1,260

 

 

 

 

Other

 

 

998

 

 

 

1,353

 

Total deferred tax assets

 

 

50,304

 

 

 

64,518

 

Deferred tax liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Intangible assets

 

 

3,036

 

 

 

3,146

 

Deferred acquisition costs

 

 

8,914

 

 

 

13,628

 

Other

 

 

1,552

 

 

 

645

 

Total deferred tax liabilities

 

 

13,502

 

 

 

17,419

 

Total net deferred tax assets

 

$

36,802

 

 

$

47,099

 

 

The deferred tax assets and deferred tax liabilities listed in the table above relate to temporary differences between the Company’s accounting and tax carrying values and carryforwards for its companies in the United States. Management believes it is more likely than not that the remaining deferred tax assets will be completely utilized in future years. As a result, the Company has not recorded a valuation allowance at December 31, 2023 and 2022.

The Company has a net operating loss (“NOL”) carryforward of $78.8 million as of December 31, 2023, which begins to expire in 2038 based on when the original NOL was generated. The Company’s NOL carryforward as of December 31, 2022 was $116.4 million.

The Company did not have any Section 163(j) ("163(j)") carryforward as December 31, 2023 or 2022. The 163(j) carryforward relates to the limitation on the deduction for business interest expense paid or accrued.

The Company and some of its subsidiaries file income tax returns in the U.S. federal jurisdiction and various U.S. states and certain foreign jurisdictions. The Company is no longer subject to U.S. federal tax examinations by tax authorities for tax years before 2020.

100


The Company applies a more-likely-than-not recognition threshold for all tax uncertainties whereby it only recognizes those tax benefits that have a greater than 50% likelihood of being sustained upon examination by relevant taxing authorities. All tax benefits recognized by the Company in 2023, 2022, and 2021 have a greater than 50% likelihood of being sustained upon examination by relevant taxing authorities.

The Company classifies all interest and penalties related to uncertain tax positions as income tax expense. The Company did not incur any interest and penalties related to uncertain tax positions during the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021. As of December 31, 2023, the Company did not record any significant liabilities for tax-related interest and penalties on its consolidated balance sheets.

12.
Liability for Unpaid Losses and Loss Adjustment Expenses

Consolidated Activity

Activity in the liability for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses is summarized as follows:

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Balance at beginning of period

 

$

832,404

 

 

$

759,904

 

 

$

662,811

 

Less: Ceded reinsurance receivables

 

 

73,021

 

 

 

94,443

 

 

 

82,158

 

Net balance at beginning of period

 

 

759,383

 

 

 

665,461

 

 

 

580,653

 

Incurred losses and loss adjustment expenses related to:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current year

 

 

279,609

 

 

 

367,298

 

 

 

376,306

 

Prior years

 

 

9,544

 

 

 

(8,070

)

 

 

8,658

 

Total incurred losses and loss adjustment expenses

 

 

289,153

 

 

 

359,228

 

 

 

384,964

 

Paid losses and loss adjustment expenses related to:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current year

 

 

72,717

 

 

 

103,442

 

 

 

149,092

 

Prior years

 

 

198,049

 

 

 

161,864

 

 

 

151,064

 

Total paid losses and loss adjustment expenses

 

 

270,766

 

 

 

265,306

 

 

 

300,156

 

Net balance at end of period

 

 

777,770

 

 

 

759,383

 

 

 

665,461

 

Plus: Ceded reinsurance receivables

 

 

72,829

 

 

 

73,021

 

 

 

94,443

 

Balance at end of period

 

$

850,599

 

 

$

832,404

 

 

$

759,904

 

 

When analyzing loss reserves and prior year development, the Company considers many factors, including the frequency and severity of claims, loss trends, case reserve settlements that may have resulted in significant development, and any other additional or pertinent factors that may impact reserve estimates.

During 2023, the Company increased its prior accident year loss reserves by $9.5 million, which consisted of a $29.9 million increase related to Penn-America and a $20.3 million decrease related to Non-Core Operations.

The $29.9 million increase in prior accident year loss reserves related to Penn-America primarily consisted of the following:

General Liability: A $28.6 million increase mainly reflects higher than expected claims severity in accident years 2018 through 2022, partially offset by decreases in the 1998, 2000 through 2010, 2012 and 2014 through 2017 accident years.
Property: A $1.3 million increase primarily recognizes higher than expected claims severity in the 2016, 2019, 2020 and 2022 accident years, partially offset by decreases in the 2015 and 2021 accident years.

The $20.3 million decrease in prior accident year loss reserves related to Non-Core Operations primarily consisted of the following:

Property: A $0.8 million increase mainly recognizes higher than expected claims severity in the 2021 and 2022 accident years, partially offset by decreases in the 2016, 2018 and 2020 accident years.
General Liability: A $10.2 million increase primarily recognizes higher than expected claims severity in accident years prior to 1990 and 2019 through 2022, partially offset by decreases in the 1995, 2013, 2014 and 2016 through 2018 accident years.
Reinsurance: A $31.2 million decrease in total is comprised of a $17.7 million decrease in the property lines in the 2013 through 2021 accident years; a $7.2 million decrease was recognized in professional lines in the 2017 and 2019 through 2021 accident years, partially offset by increases in the 2016 and 2022 accident years; and a $6.3 million decrease in general liability mainly in the 2012 and 2019 through 2022 accident years.

 

101


During 2022, the Company decreased its prior accident year loss reserves by $8.1 million, which consisted of a $2.8 million increase related to Penn-America and a $10.9 million decrease related to Non-Core Operations.

 

The $2.8 million increase in prior accident year loss reserves related to Penn-America primarily consisted of the following:

General Liability: A $6.0 million increase mainly reflects higher than expected claims severity in accident years prior to 1990, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2010 and 2016 through 2020 accident years, partially offset by decreases in the 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2011 through 2015 accident years.
Property: A $3.2 million decrease primarily recognizes lower than expected claims severity in the 2010, 2012, 2016, 2020 and 2021 accident years, partially offset by increases in the 2011, 2015 and 2018 accident years.

 

The $10.9 million decrease in prior accident year loss reserves related to Non-Core Operations primarily consisted of the following:

Property: A $1.4 million increase mainly reflects higher than expected claims severity in the 2016 through 2018 and 2020 accident years, partially offset by decreases in the 2019 and 2021 accident years.
General Liability: A $2.4 million decrease primarily recognizes lower than expected claims severity in the 1992, 2001 through 2003, 2007 through 2012 and 2014 through 2017 accident years, partially offset by increases in accident years prior to 1990 and 2018 through 2021 accident years.

 

Professional: A $2.1 million decrease primarily in 2008 through 2010 and 2012 through 2015 accident years.
Reinsurance: A $7.6 million decrease in total is comprised of a $6.3 million decrease in the property lines primarily in the 2017 through 2021 accident years, partially offset by an increase in the 2016 accident year; a $3.6 million decrease was recognized in professional lines in the 2016 accident year; and a $2.3 million increase in general liability mainly in the 2019 through 2021 accident years.

 

During 2021, the Company increased its prior accident year loss reserves by $8.7 million, which consisted of a $1.8 million increase related to Penn-America and a $6.8 million increase related to Non-Core Operations.

 

The $1.8 million increase in prior accident year loss reserves related to Penn-America primarily consisted of the following:

 

General Liability: A $1.2 million reduction primarily reflects lower than expected claims severity in the 2004 through 2009, 2014 through 2016, 2018 and 2020 accident years, partially offset by increases in the 2017 and 2019 accident years.

Property: A $3.0 million increase primarily recognizes higher than expected claims severity mainly in the 2010, 2012, 2016, 2018 and 2020 accident years, partially offset by a decrease in the 2011, 2015, 2017, and 2019 accident years.
Professional Liability: A $0.1 million increase mainly in the 2018 accident years mainly reflecting higher than anticipated claims severity.

 

The $6.8 million increase of prior accident year loss reserves related to Non-Core Operations primarily consisted of the following:

 

Property: A $11.3 million increase in total which is primarily due to case incurred emergence on a Property Brokerage claim in the 2018 accident year reflecting a higher estimated ultimate for Hurricane Michael. In addition, there were increases in the 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2020 accident years which reflects higher than expected claims severity; the increases were partially offset by a decrease in the 2017 accident year.

 

General Liability: A $1.6 million decrease primarily reflects lower than expected claims severity in accident years prior to 1990, 2000 through 2002, 2011, 2012 and 2014 through 2017 accident years, partially offset by increases in the 1992, 2007, 2009 and 2018 through 2020 accident years.
Professional Liability: A $0.1 million decrease primarily in the 2018 accident year.

 

Reinsurance: A $2.8 million decrease in total is comprised of a $1.7 million decrease in the property lines primarily in the 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2020 accident years, partially offset by an increase in the 2019 accident year and a $1.1 million decrease was recognized in professional lines mainly in the 2015 accident year, reflecting that the inception-to-date case incurred remained zero for this claims-made segment in this year.

102


Prior to 2001, the Company underwrote multi-peril business insuring general contractors, developers, and sub-contractors primarily involved in residential construction that has resulted in significant exposure to construction defect (“CD”) claims. The Company’s reserves for CD claims are established based upon Management’s best estimate in consideration of known facts, existing case law, and generally accepted actuarial methodologies. However, due to the inherent uncertainty concerning this type of business, the ultimate exposure for these claims may vary significantly from the amounts currently recorded. As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, gross reserves for CD claims were $30.4 million and $34.8 million, respectively, and net reserves for CD claims were $28.8 million and $33.4 million, respectively.

The Company has exposure to asbestos and environmental (“A&E”) claims. The asbestos exposure primarily arises from the sale of product liability insurance, and the environmental exposure arises from the sale of general liability and commercial multi-peril insurance. In establishing the liability for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses related to A&E exposures, management considers facts currently known and the current state of the law and coverage litigation. Liabilities are recognized for known claims (including the cost of related litigation) when sufficient information has been developed to indicate the involvement of a specific insurance policy, and management can reasonably estimate its liability. In addition, liabilities have been established to cover additional exposures on both known and unasserted claims. Estimates of the liabilities are reviewed and updated regularly. Case law continues to evolve for such claims, and uncertainty exists about the outcome of coverage litigation and whether past claim experience will be representative of future claim experience. Included in net unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses as of December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021 were IBNR reserves of $17.3 million, $18.9 million, and $20.1 million, respectively, and case reserves of approximately $3.8 million, $2.8 million, and $1.9 million, respectively, for known A&E-related claims.

The following table shows the Company’s gross reserves for A&E losses:

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Gross reserve for A&E losses and loss adjustment expenses – beginning of period

 

$

37,142

 

 

$

39,153

 

 

$

47,593

 

Plus: Change in incurred losses and loss adjustment expenses

 

 

1,419

 

 

 

2,658

 

 

 

(7,500

)

Less: Payments

 

 

1,730

 

 

 

4,669

 

 

 

940

 

Gross reserves for A&E losses and loss adjustment expenses – end of period

 

$

36,831

 

 

$

37,142

 

 

$

39,153

 

 

The following table shows the Company’s net reserves for A&E losses:

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Net reserve for A&E losses and loss adjustment expenses – beginning of period

 

$

21,647

 

 

$

21,985

 

 

$

28,679

 

Plus: Change in incurred losses and loss adjustment expenses

 

 

(1

)

 

 

1,962

 

 

 

(6,500

)

Less: Payments

 

 

539

 

 

 

2,300

 

 

 

194

 

Net reserves for A&E losses and loss adjustment expenses – end of period

 

$

21,107

 

 

$

21,647

 

 

$

21,985

 

 

Establishing reserves for A&E and other mass tort claims involves more judgment than other types of claims due to factors including, but not limited to, inconsistent court decisions, an increase in bankruptcy filings as a result of asbestos-related liabilities, and judicial interpretations that often expand theories of recovery and broaden the scope of coverage. The insurance industry continues to receive a substantial number of asbestos-related bodily injury claims, with an increasing focus being directed toward other parties, including installers of products containing asbestos rather than against asbestos manufacturers. This shift has resulted in significant insurance coverage litigation implicating applicable coverage defenses or determinations, if any, including but not limited to, determinations as to whether or not an asbestos-related bodily injury claim is subject to aggregate limits of liability found in most comprehensive general liability policies.

As of December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, the survival ratio on a gross basis for the Company’s open A&E claims was 15.1 years, 16.9 years, and 33.3 years, respectively. As of December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, the survival ratio on a net basis for the Company’s open A&E claims was 20.9 years, 22.8 years, and 63.5 years, respectively. The survival ratio, which is the ratio of gross or net reserves to the 3-year average of annual paid claims, is a financial measure that indicates how long the current amount of gross or net reserves are expected to last based on the current rate of paid claims.

Line of Business Categories

The following is information, presented by lines of business with similar characteristics including similar payout patterns, about incurred and paid claims development as of December 31, 2023, net of reinsurance, as well as cumulative claim frequency and the total of incurred-but-not-reported liabilities included within the net incurred claims amounts. The years included represent the number of years for which claims incurred typically remain outstanding but need not exceed 10 years including the most recent report period presented.

103


The information about incurred and paid claims development for the years ended December 31, 2014 to 2022, is presented as required supplementary unaudited information.

Penn-America

Property and Casualty Methodologies

Penn-America’s internal actuarial reserve reviews were completed for loss and allocated loss adjustment expenses (“ALAE”) separately for property excluding catastrophe experience, property catastrophes, and casualty reserve categories. The internal actuarial reserve reviews were completed with data through December 2023. Actuarial methodologies, such as the Loss Development and Bornhuetter-Ferguson methods, were employed to develop estimates of ultimate loss & ALAE for most reserve categories. Additional actuarial methodologies were employed to develop estimates of ultimate loss & ALAE for mass tort and constructions defect reserve categories due to the unique characteristics of the exposures involved. Management’s ultimate selections considered the internal actuarial review and a third-party actuarial review completed during the fourth quarter of 2023. Case incurred is subtracted from the management selected ultimates to obtain the booked IBNR reserves. These methodologies are consistent with last year.

Penn-America’s cumulative claim frequency has been calculated at the claim level and includes claims closed without payment.

Penn-America – Property

(Dollars in thousands)

 

 

 

Incurred Claims and Allocated Claims Adjustment Expenses,
Net of Reinsurance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the Years Ended December 31,

 

 

As of December 31, 2023

 

Accident
Year

 

2021

 

 

2022

 

 

2023

 

 

IBNR (1)

 

 

Cumulative Number
of Reported Claims

 

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2021

 

$

81,703

 

 

$

80,477

 

 

$

79,278

 

 

$

2,476

 

 

 

3,599

 

2022

 

 

 

 

 

80,485

 

 

 

81,232

 

 

 

6,979

 

 

 

3,040

 

2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

72,862

 

 

 

12,067

 

 

 

2,339

 

Total

 

 

$

233,372

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1)
Incurred-but-not-reported liabilities plus expected development on reported claims

Penn-America – Property

(Dollars in thousands)

 

 

 

Cumulative Paid Claims and Allocated Claims Adjustment Expenses,
Net of Reinsurance

 

 

 

For the Years Ended December 31,

 

Accident
Year

 

2021

 

 

2022

 

 

2023

 

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

 

 

2021

 

$

49,041

 

 

$

72,804

 

 

$

74,982

 

2022

 

 

 

 

 

48,646

 

 

 

71,530

 

2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

50,543

 

Total

 

 

 

197,055

 

All outstanding liabilities before 2021, net of reinsurance

 

 

 

4,560

 

Liabilities for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses, net of reinsurance

 

 

$

40,877

 

 

The following is required supplementary information about average historical claims duration as of December 31, 2023:

 

 

 

Average Annual Percentage Payout of Incurred Claims by Age,
Net of Reinsurance (Unaudited)

 

Year

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

3

 

Penn-America - Property

 

 

63.7

%

 

 

29.1

%

 

 

2.7

%

 

104


 

Penn-America – Casualty

(Dollars in thousands)

 

 

 

Incurred Claims and Allocated Claim Adjustment Expenses, Net of Reinsurance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the Years Ended December 31,

 

 

As of December 31, 2023

 

Accident
Year

 

2014

 

 

2015

 

 

2016

 

 

2017

 

 

2018

 

 

2019

 

 

2020

 

 

2021

 

 

2022

 

 

2023

 

 

IBNR (1)

 

 

Cumulative
Number of
Reported
Claims

 

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2014

 

$

43,587

 

 

$

42,841

 

 

$

41,817

 

 

$

41,530

 

 

$

41,038

 

 

$

39,516

 

 

$

37,336

 

 

$

37,034

 

 

$

35,944

 

 

$

35,632

 

 

$

747

 

 

 

1,744

 

2015

 

 

 

 

 

47,299

 

 

 

46,306

 

 

 

47,055

 

 

 

46,958

 

 

 

48,462

 

 

 

45,968

 

 

 

45,439

 

 

 

45,254

 

 

 

43,764

 

 

 

1,389

 

 

 

1,774

 

2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

45,684

 

 

 

45,230

 

 

 

44,758

 

 

 

43,055

 

 

 

42,798

 

 

 

42,237

 

 

 

42,291

 

 

 

42,166

 

 

 

1,505

 

 

 

1,630

 

2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

46,050

 

 

 

45,970

 

 

 

44,720

 

 

 

44,078

 

 

 

45,071

 

 

 

45,581

 

 

 

45,212

 

 

 

2,031

 

 

 

1,645

 

2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

48,830

 

 

 

48,450

 

 

 

47,783

 

 

 

47,175

 

 

 

47,726

 

 

 

47,721

 

 

 

2,812

 

 

 

1,993

 

2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

59,512

 

 

 

59,384

 

 

 

61,055

 

 

 

63,139

 

 

 

69,013

 

 

 

6,184

 

 

 

2,315

 

2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

72,149

 

 

 

71,693

 

 

 

75,412

 

 

 

86,132

 

 

 

12,837

 

 

 

2,429

 

2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

96,705

 

 

 

96,268

 

 

 

108,042

 

 

 

33,181

 

 

 

2,998

 

2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

123,985

 

 

 

129,796

 

 

 

72,604

 

 

 

2,947

 

2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

122,770

 

 

 

100,176

 

 

 

1,564

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

 

$

730,248

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1)
Incurred-but-not-reported liabilities plus expected development on reported claims

Penn-America – Casualty

(Dollars in thousands)

 

 

 

Cumulative Paid Claims and Allocated Claims Adjustment Expenses, Net of Reinsurance

 

 

 

For the Years Ended December 31,

 

Accident
Year

 

2014

 

 

2015

 

 

2016

 

 

2017

 

 

2018

 

 

2019

 

 

2020

 

 

2021

 

 

2022

 

 

2023

 

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

 

 

2014

 

$

2,103

 

 

$

10,583

 

 

$

17,457

 

 

$

24,113

 

 

$

29,152

 

 

$

31,725

 

 

$

33,669

 

 

$

34,020

 

 

$

34,255

 

 

$

34,639

 

2015

 

 

 

 

 

2,903

 

 

 

11,999

 

 

 

20,459

 

 

 

28,579

 

 

 

34,932

 

 

 

37,850

 

 

 

39,078

 

 

 

40,596

 

 

 

41,655

 

2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3,478

 

 

 

11,130

 

 

 

17,314

 

 

 

28,601

 

 

 

33,734

 

 

 

36,472

 

 

 

38,597

 

 

 

39,466

 

2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4,412

 

 

 

10,286

 

 

 

19,818

 

 

 

26,834

 

 

 

31,766

 

 

 

36,672

 

 

 

39,833

 

2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3,575

 

 

 

11,622

 

 

 

17,714

 

 

 

27,571

 

 

 

34,019

 

 

 

41,133

 

2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4,818

 

 

 

12,015

 

 

 

24,082

 

 

 

38,153

 

 

 

51,672

 

2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3,795

 

 

 

14,672

 

 

 

33,882

 

 

 

55,914

 

2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5,639

 

 

 

20,405

 

 

 

44,663

 

2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10,346

 

 

 

29,358

 

2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7,378

 

Total

 

 

 

385,711

 

All outstanding liabilities before 2014, net of reinsurance

 

 

 

6,948

 

Liabilities for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses, net of reinsurance

 

 

$

351,485

 

 

The following is required supplementary information about average historical claims duration as of December 31, 2023:

 

 

 

Average Annual Percentage Payout of Incurred Claims by Age,
Net of Reinsurance (Unaudited)

 

Year

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

3

 

 

4

 

 

5

 

 

6

 

 

7

 

 

8

 

 

9

 

 

10

 

Penn-America - Casualty

 

 

6.9

%

 

 

16.0

%

 

 

18.7

%

 

 

20.9

%

 

 

14.1

%

 

 

9.2

%

 

 

5.1

%

 

 

2.2

%

 

 

1.5

%

 

 

1.1

%

 

Non-Core Operations

Property and Casualty Methodologies

Non-Core Operations’ internal actuarial reserve reviews were completed for loss and allocated loss adjustment expenses (“ALAE”) separately for property excluding catastrophe experience, property catastrophes, and casualty reserve categories. The internal actuarial reserve reviews were completed with data through December 2023. Actuarial methodologies, such as the Loss Development and Bornhuetter-Ferguson methods, were employed to develop estimates of ultimate loss & ALAE. Management’s ultimate selections considered the internal actuarial review and a third-party actuarial review completed during the fourth quarter of 2023. Case incurred is subtracted from the management selected ultimates to obtain the booked IBNR reserves. These methodologies are consistent with last year.

Non-Core Operations includes business acquired in the purchase of American Reliable, which occurred on January 1, 2015. The acquisition included the purchase of the business of the legal entity as well as additional books of business written by other Assurant entities. In addition, ceding arrangements subsequent to the date of the acquisition are not consistent with years prior to the

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acquisition. As a result, it is not practical, nor would it be consistent, to include information for years prior to 2015 in the development tables for Non-Core Operations. It also includes experience for reinsurance contracts which the Company does not have direct access to claim frequency information, so claim frequency information will not be provided for Non-Core Operations as it is not available for all the experience contained within this category.

Non-Core Operations – Property

(Dollars in thousands)

 

 

 

Incurred Claims and Allocated Claims Adjustment Expenses,
Net of Reinsurance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the Years Ended December 31,

 

 

As of December 31, 2023

 

Accident
Year

 

2020

 

 

2021

 

 

2022

 

 

2023

 

 

IBNR (1)

 

 

Cumulative Number
of Reported Claims

 

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2020

 

$

161,353

 

 

$

164,648

 

 

$

166,076

 

 

$

160,082

 

 

$

4,502

 

 

 

 

2021

 

 

 

 

 

111,042

 

 

 

108,443

 

 

 

109,047

 

 

 

4,530

 

 

 

 

2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

44,668

 

 

 

47,558

 

 

 

1,689

 

 

 

 

2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10,105

 

 

 

1,882

 

 

 

 

Total

 

 

 

 

 

$

326,792

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1)
Incurred-but-not-reported liabilities plus expected development on reported claims

Non-Core Operations – Property

(Dollars in thousands)

 

 

 

Cumulative Paid Claims and Allocated Claims Adjustment Expenses,
Net of Reinsurance

 

 

 

For the Years Ended December 31,

 

Accident
Year

 

2020

 

 

2021

 

 

2022

 

 

2023

 

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

 

 

2020

 

$

125,136

 

 

$

148,167

 

 

$

153,421

 

 

$

155,690

 

2021

 

 

 

 

 

84,333

 

 

 

100,865

 

 

 

102,420

 

2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

35,635

 

 

 

43,468

 

2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7,802

 

Total

 

 

 

 

 

 

309,380

 

All outstanding liabilities before 2020, net of reinsurance

 

 

 

34,927

 

Liabilities for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses, net of reinsurance

 

 

$

52,339

 

 

The following is required supplementary information about average historical claims duration as of December 31, 2023.

 

 

 

Average Annual Percentage Payout of Incurred Claims by Age,
Net of Reinsurance (Unaudited)

 

Year

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

3

 

 

4

 

Non-Core Operations - Property

 

 

76.9

%

 

 

15.3

%

 

 

2.4

%

 

 

1.4

%

 

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Non-Core Operations – Casualty

(Dollars in thousands)

 

 

 

Incurred Claims and Allocated Claims Adjustment Expenses, Net of Reinsurance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the Years Ended December 31,

 

 

As of December 31, 2023

 

Accident
Year

 

2015

 

 

2016

 

 

2017

 

 

2018

 

 

2019

 

 

2020

 

 

2021

 

 

2022

 

 

2023

 

 

IBNR (1)

 

 

Cumulative
Number of
Reported
Claims

 

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2015

 

$

31,802

 

 

$

33,731

 

 

$

35,350

 

 

$

36,534

 

 

$

35,081

 

 

$

32,297

 

 

$

30,885

 

 

$

29,905

 

 

$

29,820

 

 

$

585

 

 

 

 

2016

 

 

 

 

 

33,548

 

 

 

33,246

 

 

 

32,042

 

 

 

29,685

 

 

 

30,308

 

 

 

30,047

 

 

 

26,130

 

 

 

29,460

 

 

 

1,374

 

 

 

 

2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

32,645

 

 

 

32,097

 

 

 

31,138

 

 

 

32,040

 

 

 

31,077

 

 

 

31,260

 

 

 

26,168

 

 

 

1,947

 

 

 

 

2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

29,798

 

 

 

30,168

 

 

 

31,126

 

 

 

34,749

 

 

 

35,067

 

 

 

34,131

 

 

 

2,701

 

 

 

 

2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

36,892

 

 

 

36,933

 

 

 

40,469

 

 

 

41,398

 

 

 

37,619

 

 

 

9,286

 

 

 

 

2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

55,088

 

 

 

56,041

 

 

 

57,890

 

 

 

53,765

 

 

 

19,119

 

 

 

 

2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

76,971

 

 

 

79,396

 

 

 

81,538

 

 

 

43,560

 

 

 

 

2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

109,182

 

 

 

114,189

 

 

 

83,462

 

 

 

 

2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

66,102

 

 

 

58,333

 

 

 

 

Total

 

 

$

472,792

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1)
Incurred-but-not-reported liabilities plus expected development on reported claims

 

Non-Core Operations – Casualty

(Dollars in thousands)

 

 

Cumulative Paid Claims and Allocated Claims Adjustment Expenses, Net of Reinsurance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the Years Ended December 31,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accident
Year

 

2015

 

 

2016

 

 

2017

 

 

2018

 

 

2019

 

 

2020

 

 

2021

 

 

2022

 

 

2023

 

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

 

 

2015

 

$

3,979

 

 

$

11,470

 

 

$

17,615

 

 

$

23,354

 

 

$

26,144

 

 

$

27,005

 

 

$

28,231

 

 

$

28,379

 

 

$

28,445

 

2016

 

 

 

 

 

4,164

 

 

 

9,782

 

 

 

14,495

 

 

 

18,196

 

 

 

19,383

 

 

 

22,005

 

 

 

23,539

 

 

 

25,791

 

2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2,633

 

 

 

7,230

 

 

 

11,915

 

 

 

18,263

 

 

 

20,183

 

 

 

21,912

 

 

 

22,904

 

2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2,063

 

 

 

6,769

 

 

 

13,320

 

 

 

19,773

 

 

 

23,041

 

 

 

25,403

 

2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2,406

 

 

 

7,814

 

 

 

15,271

 

 

 

21,877

 

 

 

25,553

 

2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3,346

 

 

 

12,074

 

 

 

18,816

 

 

 

27,235

 

2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4,820

 

 

 

11,121

 

 

 

23,355

 

2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4,517

 

 

 

14,607

 

2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4,000

 

Total

 

 

 

197,293

 

All outstanding liabilities before 2015, net of reinsurance

 

 

 

32,413

 

Liabilities for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses, net of reinsurance

 

 

$

307,912

 

 

The following is required supplementary information about average historical claims duration as of December 31, 2023:

 

 

 

Average Annual Percentage Payout of Incurred Claims
by Age, Net of Reinsurance (Unaudited)

 

Year

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

3

 

 

4

 

 

5

 

 

6

 

 

7

 

 

8

 

 

9

 

Non-Core Operations - Casualty

 

 

8.0

%

 

 

15.3

%

 

 

17.3

%

 

 

18.0

%

 

 

8.0

%

 

 

6.3

%

 

 

4.4

%

 

 

4.1

%

 

 

0.2

%

 

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The reconciliation of the net incurred and paid claims development tables to the liability for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses in the consolidated balance sheets as of December 31, 2023 is as follows:

 

Net outstanding liabilities

 

 

 

Penn-America – Property

 

$

40,877

 

Penn-America – Casualty

 

 

351,485

 

Non-Core Operations – Property

 

 

52,339

 

Non-Core Operations – Casualty

 

 

307,912

 

Liabilities for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses, net of reinsurance

 

 

752,613

 

Reinsurance recoverable on unpaid claims

 

 

 

Penn-America – Property

 

 

3,592

 

Penn-America – Casualty

 

 

22,693

 

Non-Core Operations – Property

 

 

22,100

 

Non-Core Operations – Casualty

 

 

24,446

 

Total reinsurance recoverable on unpaid claims

 

 

72,831

 

Other outstanding liabilities

 

 

 

Penn-America

 

 

 

Ceded Allowance

 

 

 

Unallocated claims adjustment expenses

 

 

11,654

 

Loss Clearing

 

 

(881

)

Non-Core Operations

 

 

 

Ceded Allowance

 

 

8,992

 

Unallocated claims adjustment expenses

 

 

7,016

 

Other

 

 

(1,626

)

Total other outstanding liabilities

 

 

25,155

 

Total gross liability for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses

 

$

850,599

 

 

13.
Debt

 

7.875% Subordinated Notes due 2047

 

On April 15, 2022, the Company redeemed the entire $130.0 million in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding 2047 Notes plus accrued and unpaid interest on the 2047 Notes redeemed to, but not including the Redemption Date of April 15, 2022. In connection with the redemption, the Company wrote off deferred issuance costs of $3.5 million which was recognized as a loss on extinguishment of debt in its consolidated statements of operations for the year ended December 31, 2022.

 

Interest expense, including amortization of deferred issuance costs through the date of redemption, recognized on the 2047 Notes was $3.0 million and $10.4 million for the years ended December 31, 2022, and 2021, respectively. The Company did not incur any interest expense related to the 2047 Notes for the year ended December 31, 2023.

 

In connection with the redemption of the 2047 Notes, the Supplemental Indenture and the co-obligor transaction are no longer effective. Please see Note 13 of the notes to the consolidated financial statements in Item 8 Part II of the Company’s 2021 Annual Report on Form 10-K for more information on the Supplemental Indenture and the co-obligor transaction.

 

As a result of this redemption, the Company no longer has any outstanding debt with third parties.

14.
Leases

The Company leases office space and equipment under various operating lease arrangements. The Company’s leases have remaining lease terms ranging from 3 months to 6 years. Some building leases have options to extend, terminate, or retract the leased area.

 

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In conjunction with the sale of the renewal rights related to both the Company's Farm, Ranch & Stable business and the Company's manufactured and dwelling homes business as well as the Company's decision to terminate its lease in Cavan, Ireland due to employees in Ireland working remotely, the Company recognized the following impairment losses:

 

 

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

 (Dollars in thousands)

 

Consolidated Statements of Operations Line

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Scottsdale, Arizona

 

Corporate and other operating expenses

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

1,515

 

Scottsdale, Arizona

 

Acquisition costs and other underwriting expenses

 

 

 

 

 

681

 

 

 

 

Omaha, Nebraska

 

Acquisition costs and other underwriting expenses

 

 

 

 

488

 

 

 

 

Cavan, Ireland

 

Acquisition costs and other underwriting expenses

 

 

 

 

 

168

 

 

 

 

Total lease impairment

 

 

$

 

 

$

1,337

 

$

1,515

 

 

Please see Note 2 for additional information on the sale of the renewal rights.

 

The components of lease expenses were as follows:

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

 (Dollars in thousands)

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Operating lease expenses

$

2,052

 

 

$

2,372

 

 

$

2,789

 

Short-term lease expenses

 

12

 

 

 

15

 

 

 

8

 

Sublease income (1)

 

 

(331

)

 

 

(331

)

 

 

(55

)

Total lease expenses

$

1,733

 

 

$

2,056

 

$

2,742

 

 

(1) In connection with the sale of the renewal rights related to the Company's manufactured and dwelling homes business, K2 is subleasing approximately one third of the Company's Scottsdale, Arizona office. The Company intends to exercise its early termination clause in the Scottsdale, Arizona lease and expects to receive $1.6 million in sublease payments between October 2021 through October 2026.

 

Supplemental cash flow information related to leases was as follows:

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

 (Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating leases

 

$

1,852

 

 

$

2,056

 

 

$

2,797

 

Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for new lease obligations:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating leases

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

783

 

 

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Supplemental balance sheet information related to leases was as follows:

 

The table below presents the lease-related assets and liabilities recorded on the consolidated balance sheets.

 

 

 

 

 

December 31,

 

(Dollars in thousands)

Classification on the
consolidated balance sheets

2023

 

 

2022

 

Assets:

 

 

 

Operating lease assets

Lease right of use assets

$

9,715

 

 

$

11,739

 

 

 

 

Liabilities:

 

 

 

Operating lease liabilities

Lease liabilities

$

12,733

 

 

$

15,701

 

 

 

 

Weighted-average remaining lease term

 

 

 

Operating leases

5.0 years

 

 

6.6 years

 

 

 

 

Weighted-average discount rate

 

 

 

Operating leases (1)

 

0.8

%

 

 

0.9

%

 

(1) Represents the Company’s incremental borrowing rate at the time the leases were contracted.

 

At December 31, 2023, future minimum lease payments under non-cancelable operating leases were as follows.

 

 (Dollars in thousands)

Operating Leases (1)

 

 

Expected Sublease Income

 

2024

$

2,729

 

 

$

297

 

2025

 

2,794

 

 

 

388

 

2026

 

2,650

 

 

 

342

 

2027

 

1,591

 

 

 

 

2028

 

1,611

 

 

 

 

Thereafter

 

1,631

 

 

 

 

Total future minimum lease payments

 

13,006

 

 

 

1,027

 

Less: amount representing interest

 

273

 

 

 

 

Present value of minimum lease payments

$

12,733

 

 

$

1,027

 

 

(1)
Includes future minimum lease payments of $3.2 million on leases that have been impaired because the property is no longer in use.

 

15.
Shareholders’ Equity

Distribution Restrictions

The ability of Global Indemnity Group, LLC to pay distributions is subject to applicable federal and state laws and Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s LLCA. Distributions of cash or other assets of Global Indemnity Group, LLC may be paid to Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s shareholders out of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s assets legally available therefor only when, and if determined by the Board. Each Series A Preferred Shareholder is entitled to a “Priority Return” (as defined in the applicable Share Designation). On each Distribution Date, Global Indemnity Group, LLC shall make a distribution to each holder of the Series A Preferred Shares out of, and subject to a determination by the Board that the Company has on the applicable Distribution Date, funds legally available therefor, payable in cash only, in an amount equal to the estimated amount necessary to reduce the Unpaid Priority Return of each Series A Preferred Share immediately after such Distribution Date to zero. All such distributions shall be made pro rata in relation to each such Series A Preferred Share’s Unpaid Priority Return.

 

Since Global Indemnity Group, LLC is a holding company and has no direct operations, its ability to pay distributions depends, in part, on the ability of its subsidiaries to generate income to pay dividends. Penn-Patriot Insurance Company and its insurance subsidiaries are subject to significant regulatory restrictions limiting their ability to declare and pay dividends. Global Indemnity Investments, Inc. is dependent on generating investment income in order to pay a dividend to Global Indemnity Group, LLC. See Note 21 for additional information regarding dividend limitations imposed on Penn-Patriot Insurance Company and its subsidiaries.

 

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Distributions

Distribution payments of $0.25 per common share per quarter were declared during the year ended December 31, 2023 as follows:

 

Approval Date

 

Record Date

 

Payment Date

 

Total Distributions Declared
(Dollars in thousands)

 

March 2, 2023

 

March 24, 2023

 

March 31, 2023

 

$

3,410

 

June 1, 2023

 

June 23, 2023

 

June 30, 2023

 

 

3,375

 

September 28, 2023

 

October 9, 2023

 

October 16, 2023

 

 

3,385

 

December 7, 2023

 

December 22, 2023

 

December 29, 2023

 

 

3,385

 

Various (1)

 

Various

 

Various

 

 

(86

)

Total

 

 

 

 

 

$

13,469

 

 

(1)
Represents distributions declared on unvested shares, net of forfeitures

 

Distribution payments of $0.25 per common share per quarter were declared during the year ended December 31, 2022 as follows:

 

Approval Date

 

Record Date

 

Payment Date

 

Total Distributions Declared
(Dollars in thousands)

 

March 3, 2022

 

March 21, 2022

 

March 31, 2022

 

$

3,597

 

June 2, 2022

 

June 20, 2022

 

June 30, 2022

 

 

3,602

 

September 23, 2022

 

October 4, 2022

 

October 11, 2022

 

 

3,616

 

December 8, 2022

 

December 23, 2022

 

December 30, 2022

 

 

3,389

 

Various (1)

 

Various

 

Various

 

 

339

 

Total

 

 

 

 

 

$

14,543

 

 

(1)
Represents distributions declared on unvested shares, net of forfeitures

Distribution payments of $0.25 per common share per quarter were declared during the year ended December 31, 2021 as follows:

 

Approval Date

 

Record Date

 

Payment Date

 

Total Distributions Declared
(Dollars in thousands)

 

February 14, 2021

 

March 22, 2021

 

March 31, 2021

 

$

3,570

 

June 5, 2021

 

June 21, 2021

 

June 30, 2021

 

 

3,579

 

September 11, 2021

 

September 23, 2021

 

September 30, 2021

 

 

3,583

 

December 4, 2021

 

December 20, 2021

 

December 31, 2021

 

 

3,587

 

Various (1)

 

Various

 

Various

 

 

259

 

Total

 

 

 

 

 

$

14,578

 

 

(1)
Represents distributions declared on unvested shares, net of forfeitures

 

In addition, distributions of $0.4 million were paid to Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s preferred shareholder during each of the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021.

As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, accrued distributions on unvested common shares, which were included in other liabilities on the consolidated balance sheets, were $0.3 million and $1.1 million, respectively. Accrued preferred distributions were less than $0.1 million as of December 31, 2023 and 2022 and were also included in other liabilities on the consolidated balance sheets.

Repurchases and Redemptions of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s Common Shares

Global Indemnity Group, LLC allows employees to surrender class A common shares as payment for the tax liability incurred upon the vesting of restricted stock that was issued under the Company’s share incentive plan in effect at the time of issuance. During 2023, 2022, and 2021, Global Indemnity purchased an aggregate of 18,860, 15,954 and 17,318, respectively, of surrendered class A common shares from its employees for $0.6 million, $0.4 million, and $0.5 million, respectively.

On October 21, 2022, Global Indemnity Group, LLC announced it commenced a stock repurchase program beginning in the fourth quarter of 2022. On January 3, 2023, Global Indemnity Group, LLC announced that it had authorized an increase in the aggregate stock repurchase program from $32 million, which was authorized on October 21, 2022, to $60 million. On June 8, 2023, Global Indemnity Group, LLC's Board of Directors approved an additional increase in the existing share buyback authorization amount of $60 million to $135 million. The authorization to repurchase will expire on December 31, 2027. The timing and actual number of shares repurchased, if any, will depend on a variety of factors, including price, general business and market conditions, and alternative investment opportunities.

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Under the repurchase program, repurchases may be made from time to time using a variety of methods, including open market purchases or privately negotiated transactions, all in compliance with Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s Insider Trading Policy, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, and other applicable legal requirements. The repurchase program does not obligate Global Indemnity Group, LLC to acquire any particular amount of class A common shares, and the repurchase program may be suspended or discontinued at any time at Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s discretion.

 

From the time of the initial announcement, a total of 1,357,082 shares were repurchased for approximately $34.0 million at an average purchase price of $25.05 per share. 138,151 shares that were acquired were reissued in December 2022 to one of the Directors of Global Indemnity Group, LLC at an average price per share of $24.17. As a result of these transactions, book value per share increased by $1.69 per share since inception of the stock repurchase program in October 2022.

Shares purchased from employees or third parties by Global Indemnity Group, LLC are held as treasury stock and recorded at cost until formally retired by Global Indemnity Group, LLC.

The following table provides information with respect to the class A common shares that were surrendered, repurchased, or redeemed in 2023:

 

Period (1)

 

Total Number
of Shares
Purchased or
Redeemed

 

 

Average
Price Paid
Per Share

 

 

Total Number of Shares
Purchased as Part of
Publicly Announced
Plan or Program

 

 

Approximate Dollar
Value of Shares that May
Yet Be Purchased Under
the Plans or Programs
(2)

 

Class A common shares:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 1-31, 2023

 

 

3,302

 

(3)

$

23.31

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 1-31, 2023

 

 

250,000

 

(4)

$

25.90

 

 

 

250,000

 

 

$

106,604,066

 

April 1-30, 2023

 

 

200,000

 

(4)

$

28.00

 

 

 

200,000

 

 

$

101,004,066

 

June 1-30, 2023

 

 

15,558

 

(3)

$

33.74

 

 

 

 

 

$

101,004,066

 

Total

 

 

468,860

 

 

$

27.04

 

 

 

450,000

 

 

 

 

 

(1)
Based on settlement date.
(2)
Based on the $135 million share repurchase authorization.
(3)
Surrendered by employees as payment of taxes withheld on the vesting of restricted stock and/or restricted stock units.
(4)
Purchased as part of the stock repurchase program which commenced in 4th quarter of 2022.

The following table provides information with respect to the class A common shares that were surrendered, repurchased, or redeemed in 2022:

 

Period (1)

 

Total Number
of Shares
Purchased or
Redeemed

 

 

Average
Price Paid
Per Share

 

 

Total Number of Shares
Purchased as Part of
Publicly Announced
Plan or Program

 

 

Approximate Dollar
Value of Shares that May
Yet Be Purchased Under
the Plans or Programs
(2)

 

Class A common shares:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 1-31, 2022

 

 

4,781

 

(3)

$

25.13

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 1-30, 2022

 

 

11,173

 

(3)

$

26.28

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 1-31, 2022

 

 

200,000

 

(4)

$

23.49

 

 

 

200,000

 

 

 

27,302,000

 

November 1-30, 2022

 

 

250,000

 

(4)

$

24.50

 

 

 

250,000

 

 

 

21,177,000

 

December 1-31, 2022

 

 

457,082

 

(4)

$

24.28

 

 

 

457,082

 

 

 

10,079,066

 

Total

 

 

923,036

 

 

$

24.20

 

 

 

907,082

 

 

 

 

 

(1)
Based on settlement date.
(2)
Based on the $32 million share repurchase authorization.
(3)
Surrendered by employees as payment of taxes withheld on the vesting of restricted stock and/or restricted stock units.
(4)
Purchased as part of the stock repurchase program which commenced in 4th quarter of 2022.

 

Global Indemnity Group, LLC converted 153,594 of class B common shares to class A common shares on November 14, 2022. There were no other class B common shares that were surrendered, repurchased, or redeemed in 2023 or 2022.

Each class A common share has one vote and each class B common share has ten votes.

As of December 31, 2023, Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s class A common shares were held by approximately 140 shareholders of record. The Fox Paine Entities comprise the two holders of record of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s class B common shares as of December 31, 2023. Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s preferred shares were held by 1 holder of record, an affiliate of Fox Paine & Company, LLC, as of December 31, 2023.

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16.
Related Party Transactions

 

Fox Paine Entities

 

Pursuant to Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s LLCA, Fox Paine Capital Fund II International, L.P. (the “Fox Paine Fund”), together with Fox Mercury Investments, L.P. and certain of its affiliates (the “FM Entities”), and Fox Paine & Company LLC (collectively, the “Fox Paine Entities”) currently constitute a Class B Majority Shareholder (as defined in the LLCA) and, as such, have the right to appoint a number of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s directors equal in aggregate to the pro rata percentage of the voting power in Global Indemnity Group, LLC beneficially held by the Fox Paine Entities, rounded up to the nearest whole number of directors. The Fox Paine Entities beneficially own shares representing approximately 83.8% of the voting power of Global Indemnity Group, LLC as of December 31, 2023. The Fox Paine Entities control the appointment or election of all of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s Directors due to the LLCA and their controlling share ownership. Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s Chairman is the chief executive and founder of Fox Paine & Company, LLC.

 

On August 27, 2020, Global Indemnity Group, LLC issued and sold to Wyncote LLC, an affiliate of Fox Paine & Company, LLC, 4,000 Series A Cumulative Fixed Rate Preferred Interests at a price of $1,000 per Series A Preferred Interest, for the aggregate purchase price of $4,000,000. While these preferred interests are non-voting, the preferred shareholders are entitled to appoint two additional members to Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s Board of Directors whenever the “Unpaid Targeted Priority Return” with respect to the preferred interests exceed zero immediately following six or more “Distribution Dates”, whether or not such Distribution Dates occur consecutively. Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s Board of Directors is obligated to take, and cause Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s officers to take, any necessary actions to effectuate such appointments, including expanding the size of the Board of Directors, in connection with any exercise of the foregoing provisions. See Note 15 of the notes to consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II of this report for additional information on the Series A Cumulative Fixed Rate Preferred Interests.

Pursuant to the Third Amended and Restated Management Agreement, (“Management Agreement”) dated August 28, 2020, between Global Indemnity Group, LLC and Fox Paine & Company, LLC, Global Indemnity Group, LLC agrees to pay, or to cause one of its affiliates to pay, an annual service fee (“Annual Service Fee”) as compensation for Fox Paine & Company, LLC’s ongoing provision of certain financial and strategic consulting, advisory and other services to Global Indemnity Group, LLC and its affiliates, and to reimburse all direct and indirect expenses paid or incurred in connection with such services upon request, excluding expenses for travel, lodging, meals, and other items relating to attendance at regularly scheduled meetings of the Board of Directors. The Annual Service Fee is adjusted annually to reflect the aggregate increase in the CPI-U. The current fee charged for the twelve month period beginning September 5, 2023 was $3.2 million. Should Global Indemnity Group, LLC and Fox Paine & Company, LLC agree that the Annual Service Fee will be deferred, the Annual Service Fee will become subject to an annual adjustment equal to the percentage rate of return the Company earns on its investment portfolio multiplied by the aggregate Annual Service Fees and adjustment amounts accumulated and unpaid through such date.

Management fee expense of $3.1 million, $2.9 million, and $2.7 million was incurred during the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively. Prepaid management fees, which were included in other assets on the consolidated balance sheets, were $2.1 million as of December 31, 2023 and 2022.

 

In addition, Fox Paine & Company, LLC may also propose and negotiate transaction fees with the Company subject to the provisions of the Company’s related party transaction and conflict matter policies, including approval of Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s Conflicts Committee of the Board of Directors, for those services from time to time. Each of the Company’s transactions with Fox Paine & Company, LLC are reviewed and approved by Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s Conflicts Committee, which is composed of independent directors, and the Board of Directors (other than Saul A. Fox, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Global Indemnity Group, LLC and Chief Executive of Fox Paine & Company, LLC, who is not a member of the Conflicts Committee and recuses himself from the Board of Directors’ deliberations related to fees paid to Fox Paine & Company, LLC or its affiliates).

17.
Commitments and Contingencies

Legal Proceedings

The Company is, from time to time, involved in various legal proceedings in the ordinary course of business. The Company maintains insurance and reinsurance coverage for such risks in amounts that it considers adequate. However, there can be no assurance that the insurance and reinsurance coverage that the Company maintains is sufficient or will be available in adequate amounts or at a reasonable cost. The Company does not believe that the resolution of any currently pending legal proceedings, either individually or taken as a whole, will have a material adverse effect on its business, results of operations, cash flows, or financial condition.

 

There is a greater potential for disputes with reinsurers who are in runoff. Some of the Company’s reinsurers have operations that are in runoff, and therefore, the Company closely monitors those relationships. The Company anticipates that, similar to the rest of the

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insurance and reinsurance industry, it will continue to be subject to litigation and arbitration proceedings in the ordinary course of business.

Commitments

In 2014, the Company entered into a $50 million commitment to purchase an alternative investment vehicle which is comprised of European non-performing loans. As of December 31, 2023, the Company has funded $35.8 million of this commitment leaving $14.2 million as unfunded. Since the investment period has concluded, the Company expects minimal capital calls will be made prospectively.

 

Other Commitments

The Company is party to a Management Agreement, as amended, with Fox Paine & Company, LLC, whereby in connection with certain management services provided to it by Fox Paine & Company, LLC, the Company agreed to pay an annual management fee to Fox Paine & Company, LLC. See Note 16 above for additional information pertaining to this management agreement.

 

18.
Share-Based Compensation Plans

 

The fair value method of accounting recognizes share-based compensation to employees and non-employee directors in the consolidated statements of operations using the grant-date fair value of the stock options and other equity-based compensation expensed over the requisite service and vesting period.

For the purpose of determining the fair value of stock option awards, the Company uses the Black-Scholes option-pricing model. The Company elected a policy to accrue for compensation cost based on the number of awards that are expected to vest. An estimation of forfeitures is required when recognizing compensation expense which is then adjusted over the requisite service period should actual forfeitures differ from such estimates. Changes in estimated forfeitures are recognized through a cumulative adjustment to compensation in the period of change.

 

Excess tax benefits and tax deficiencies associated with share-based payment awards are required to be recognized as an income tax benefit or expense in net income (loss) with the corresponding cash flows recognized as an operating activity in the Consolidated Statement of Cash Flow.

Share Incentive Plan

 

On June 14, 2023, the Company’s Shareholders approved the Global Indemnity Group, LLC 2023 Share Incentive Plan (“the 2023 Plan”). The primary purpose of the 2023 Plan is to provide Global Indemnity a competitive advantage in attracting, retaining, and motivating officers, employees, consultants and non-employee directors, and to position Global Indemnity to offer incentives linked to the financial results of the Company’s business and increases in shareholder value. Under the 2023 Plan, the Company may issue up to 2.5 million class A common shares pursuant to awards granted under the Plan. The 2023 Plan replaced the Global Indemnity Group, LLC 2018 Share Incentive Plan, as amended and restated on August 28, 2020, which expired pursuant to its terms on March 4, 2023.

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Options

Award activity for stock options granted under the Plan and the weighted average exercise price per share are summarized as follows:

 

 

 

Time-Based
Options

 

 

Performance-
Based Options

 

 

Total
Options

 

 

Weighted
Average Exercise
Price Per Share

 

 Options outstanding at January 1, 2021

 

 

900,000

 

 

 

100,000

 

 

 

1,000,000

 

 

 

40.04

 

Options issued

 

 

 

 

 

140,000

 

 

 

140,000

 

 

 

28.70

 

Options forfeited

 

 

(300,000

)

 

 

(146,667

)

 

 

(446,667

)

 

 

47.06

 

Options exercised

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Options expired

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Options purchased by the Company

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Options outstanding at December 31, 2021

 

 

600,000

 

 

 

93,333

 

 

 

693,333

 

 

 

33.23

 

Options issued

 

 

200,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

200,000

 

 

 

20.77

 

Options forfeited

 

 

 

 

 

(46,666

)

 

 

(46,666

)

 

 

28.70

 

Options exercised

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Options expired

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Options purchased by the Company

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Options outstanding at December 31, 2022

 

 

800,000

 

 

 

46,667

 

 

 

846,667

 

 

 

30.54

 

Options issued

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Options forfeited

 

 

(600,000

)

 

 

(46,667

)

 

 

(646,667

)

 

 

33.56

 

Options exercised

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Options expired

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Options purchased by the Company

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Options outstanding at December 31, 2023 (1)

 

 

200,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

200,000

 

 

$

20.77

 

 Options exercisable at December 31, 2023 (1)

 

 

200,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

200,000

 

 

$

20.77

 

(1)
Represents stock options granted to the Company's Chief Executive Officer. See note below under Chief Executive Officer for additional information.

The Company recorded $0.2 million, $0.3 million, and ($1.1) million of compensation expense for stock options under the Plan during the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively.

The Company did not receive any proceeds from the exercise of options during 2023, 2022 or 2021 under the Plan.

The Company does not anticipate any additional compensation expense related to options outstanding under the Plan at December 31, 2023.

Option intrinsic values, which are the differences between the fair value of $32.24 at December 31, 2023 and the weighted average strike price of the option, are as follows:

 

 

 

Number
of Shares

 

 

Weighted Average Strike Price

 

 

Intrinsic Value

 

Outstanding

 

 

200,000

 

 

 

20.77

 

 

$2.3 Million

 

Exercisable

 

 

200,000

 

 

 

20.77

 

 

$2.3 Million

 

Exercised (1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1)
The intrinsic value of the exercised options is the difference between the fair market value at time of exercise and the strike price of the option.

 

There were no options granted under the Plan in 2023. The weighted average fair value of options granted under the Plan was $2.98 in 2022 and $6.95 in 2021 using a Black-Scholes option-pricing model and the following weighted average assumptions.

 

 

 

2022

 

2021

Dividend yield

 

2.0%

 

2.0%

Expected volatility

 

22.56%

 

38.64%

Risk-free interest rate

 

4.49%

 

0.2%

Expected option life

 

2.0 years

 

3.5 years

 

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The following tables summarize the range of exercise prices of options outstanding at December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021:

 

Ranges of
Exercise Prices

 

Outstanding at December 31, 2023

 

 

 

Weighted Average Per
Share Exercise Price

 

 

Weighted Average
Remaining Life

$20.00 - $24.99

 

 

200,000

 

 

 

$

20.77

 

 

5.8 years

Total

 

 

200,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ranges of
Exercise Prices

 

Outstanding at December 31, 2022

 

 

 

Weighted Average Per
Share Exercise Price

 

 

Weighted Average
Remaining Life

$15.00 - $19.99

 

 

300,000

 

 

 

$

17.87

 

 

0.0 years

$20.00 - $24.99

 

 

200,000

 

 

 

$

20.77

 

 

6.8 years

$25.00 - $39.99

 

 

46,667

 

 

 

$

28.70

 

 

8.1 years

$50.00 - $59.99

 

 

300,000

 

 

 

$

50.00

 

 

5.0 years

Total

 

 

846,667

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ranges of
Exercise Prices

 

Outstanding at December 31, 2021

 

 

 

Weighted Average Per
Share Exercise Price

 

 

Weighted Average
Remaining Life

$15.00 - $19.99

 

 

300,000

 

 

 

$

17.87

 

 

0.0 years

$25.00 - $39.99

 

 

93,333

 

 

 

$

28.70

 

 

9.0 years

$50.00 - $59.99

 

 

300,000

 

 

 

$

50.00

 

 

6.0 years

Total

 

 

693,333

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Restricted Shares / Restricted Stock Units

In addition to stock option grants, the Plan also provides for the granting of restricted shares and restricted stock units to employees and non-employee Directors. The Company recognized compensation expense for restricted stock of $2.7 million, $2.0 million, and $2.5 million for 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively. There is no unrecognized compensation expense for the non-vested restricted stock at December 31, 2023. The Company recognized compensation expense for restricted stock units of $0.5 million, $1.5 million, and $0.9 million for 2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively. The total unrecognized compensation expense for the non-vested restricted stock units is $0.1 million at December 31, 2023, which will be recognized over a weighted average life of 0.5 years.

The following table summarizes the restricted stock grants since the 2003 inception of the original share incentive plan:

 

 

 

Restricted Stock Awards

 

Year

 

Employees

 

 

Directors

 

 

Total

 

Inception through 2020

 

 

1,171,576

 

 

 

747,601

 

 

 

1,919,177

 

2021

 

 

 

 

 

83,199

 

 

 

83,199

 

2022

 

 

 

 

 

97,260

 

 

 

97,260

 

2023

 

 

 

 

 

91,088

 

 

 

91,088

 

 

 

1,171,576

 

 

 

1,019,148

 

 

 

2,190,724

 

 

The following table summarizes the non-vested restricted shares activity for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021:

 

 

 

Number of
Shares

 

 

Weighted
Average
Price Per
Share

 

Non-vested Restricted Shares at January 1, 2021

 

 

35,403

 

 

 

38.45

 

Shares issued

 

 

83,199

 

 

 

27.24

 

Shares vested

 

 

(101,048

)

 

 

29.59

 

Shares forfeited

 

 

(2,915

)

 

 

36.58

 

Non-vested Restricted Shares at December 31, 2021

 

 

14,639

 

 

 

36.23

 

Shares issued

 

 

97,260

 

 

 

25.08

 

Shares vested

 

 

(100,975

)

 

 

25.49

 

Shares forfeited

 

 

(10,924

)

 

 

36.23

 

Non-vested Restricted Shares at December 31, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shares issued

 

 

91,088

 

 

 

29.83

 

Shares vested

 

 

(91,088

)

 

 

29.83

 

Shares forfeited

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non-vested Restricted Shares at December 31, 2023

 

 

 

 

$

 

 

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The following table summarizes the restricted stock unit grants since the 2003 inception of the original share incentive plan:

 

 

 

Restricted Stock Unit Awards

 

Year

 

Employees

 

 

Directors

 

 

Total

 

Inception through 2020

 

 

336,736

 

 

 

41,667

 

 

 

378,403

 

2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

336,736

 

 

 

41,667

 

 

 

378,403

 

 

The following table summarizes the non-vested restricted stock units activity for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021:

 

 

 

Number
of Restricted
Stock Units

 

 

Weighted Average Price Per Restricted Stock Unit

 

Non-vested Restricted Stock Units at January 1, 2021

 

 

315,026

 

 

$

30.26

 

Restricted Stock Units issued

 

 

 

 

 

 

Restricted Stock Units vested

 

 

(44,245

)

 

 

30.08

 

Restricted Stock Units forfeited

 

 

(43,425

)

 

 

30.06

 

Non-vested Restricted Stock Units at December 31, 2021

 

 

227,356

 

 

$

30.33

 

Restricted Stock Units issued

 

 

 

 

 

 

Restricted Stock Units vested

 

 

(47,633

)

 

 

30.35

 

Restricted Stock Units forfeited

 

 

(51,885

)

 

 

29.82

 

Non-vested Restricted Stock Units at December 31, 2022

 

 

127,838

 

 

$

30.53

 

Restricted Stock Units issued

 

 

 

 

 

 

Restricted Stock Units vested

 

 

(61,652

)

 

 

30.43

 

Restricted Stock Units forfeited

 

 

(14,893

)

 

 

30.18

 

Non-vested Restricted Stock Units at December 31, 2023

 

 

51,293

 

 

$

30.75

 

 

Upon vesting, the restricted stock units are converted to restricted class A common shares. Based on the terms of the restricted share and restricted stock unit grants, all forfeited shares revert back to the Company.

During 2023, 2022, and 2021, the Company granted 91,088, 97,260, and 83,199 class A common shares, respectively, at a weighted average grant date value of $29.83, $25.08, and $27.24 per share, respectively, to non-employee directors of the Company under the Plan. The Company previously granted 157,139 shares to a non-employee director with deferred vesting. These shares vested on January 13, 2023. All other shares granted to non-employee directors of the Company are fully vested but subject to certain restrictions.

 

There were no restricted class A common shares or restricted stock units granted to key employees during the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, or 2021.

 

Book Value Appreciation Rights (“BVAR”)

In 2021, the Company granted 2,500,000 Penn-Patriot BVARs with an aggregate initial notional value equal to approximately 5% of Penn-Patriot’s book value, which entitled the holder to a payment based on the value of the per-BVAR appreciation in Penn-Patriot’s book value over the initial notional value. These BVARs were forfeited in 2022.

In 2021, the Company also granted 400,000 Penn-Patriot BVARS with an aggregate initial notional value equal to approximately 0.8% of Penn-Patriot’s book value, which entitled the holder to a payment based on the value of the per-BVAR appreciation in Penn-Patriot’s book value over the initial notional value. These BVARs were forfeited in 2022.

 

There were no BVARs granted during the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022.

The Company recorded $2.3 million in compensation expense during the year ended December 31, 2021. This expense was reversed in 2022 when the BVARs were forfeited. There was no compensation expense related to BVARs during the year ended December 31, 2023. There were no accrued expenses related to BVARs as of December 31, 2023 or 2022.

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Book Value Rights ("BVR")

 

Book Value Rights are awards issued to employees which are indexed to Penn-Patriot Insurance Company's equity. Penn-Patriot Insurance Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. The BVRs are payable in either cash or Global Indemnity Group, LLC's class A common shares at the discretion of Global Indemnity Group, LLC's Board of Directors.

 

In 2023, the Company granted 177,045 Penn-Patriot Book Value Rights. These BVR will vest 50% on March 3, 2025 and 50% on March 3, 2026.

In 2022, the Company granted 179,096 Penn-Patriot Book Value Rights. Of these BVR, 69,034 BVR have a three year cliff vesting period. 34,463 BVR will vest on December 31, 2024. 20,855 BVR will vest 50% on April 18, 2025 and 50% on April 18, 2027. The remaining 54,745 BVR will vest as follows:

 

16.5% vested on January 1, 2023, 16.5% will vest on January 1, 2024, and 17.0% of the book value rights will vest on January 1, 2025.
Subject to Board approval, 50% of the book value rights will vest 100%, no later than March 15, 2026, following a re-measurement of 2022 results as of December 31, 2025.

 

In 2021, the Company granted 131,438 Penn-Patriot Book Value Rights. Of these BVR, 97,432 BVR have a three year cliff vesting period. Of the remaining 34,006 BVR, 50% vested on October 26, 2022 and 50% will be paid in January 2024.

The Company recorded $0.6 million, $0.8 million, and $0.1 million in compensation expense during the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively, and had $1.3 million and $0.7 million accrued as of December 31, 2023, and 2022, respectively, related to the book value rights.

Chief Executive Officer

Effective October 21, 2022, Global Indemnity Group, LLC's Board of Directors appointed Joseph W. Brown as its Chief Executive Officer ("CEO"). The CEO Agreement provides for a grant of 200,000 stock options to acquire GBLI class A common shares with an exercise price equal to the closing price of GBLI’s class A common shares on the date of the grant. The options vested in four equal tranches as follows: 25% on each of November 1, 2022, February 1, 2023, May 1, 2023 and August 1, 2023 and are exercisable within 7 years of the grant notwithstanding any earlier termination of employment. The stock options are subject to the terms and conditions for stock options as reflected in the Company’s 2018 Share Incentive Plan and written option agreement.

 

See Note 26 for additional information on stock options granted in connection with new CEO Agreement entered into on January 18, 2024.

 

Rule 10b5-1 Trading Plans

 

The Company did not have any Rule 10b5-1 Trading Plans in place during the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021.

 

19.
401(k) Plan

The Company maintains a 401(k) defined contribution plan that covers all eligible U.S. employees. Under this plan, the Company matches 100% of the first 6% contributed by an employee. Vesting on contributions made by the Company is immediate. Total expenses for the plan were $1.6 million, $2.0 million, and $1.9 million for the three years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively.

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20.
Earnings Per Share

Earnings per share have been computed using the weighted average number of common shares and common share equivalents outstanding during the period.

The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted earnings per share:

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

(Dollars in thousands, except share and per share data)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Numerator:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income (loss)

 

$

25,429

 

 

$

(850

)

 

$

29,354

 

Less: preferred stock distributions

 

 

440

 

 

 

440

 

 

 

440

 

Net income (loss) available to common shareholders

 

$

24,989

 

 

$

(1,290

)

 

$

28,914

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Denominator:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weighted average shares for basic earnings per share

 

 

13,553,168

 

 

 

14,482,164

 

 

 

14,426,739

 

Non-vested restricted stock

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11,016

 

Non-vested restricted stock units

 

 

49,616

 

 

 

 

 

 

120,936

 

Options

 

 

63,624

 

 

 

 

 

 

105,639

 

Weighted average shares for diluted earnings per share (1)

 

 

13,666,408

 

 

 

14,482,164

 

 

 

14,664,330

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Earnings per share - Basic

 

$

1.84

 

 

$

(0.09

)

 

$

2.00

 

Earnings per share - Diluted

 

$

1.83

 

 

$

(0.09

)

 

$

1.97

 

 

(1)
For the year ended December 31, 2022, “weighted average shares outstanding – basic” was used to calculate “diluted earnings per share” due to a net loss for the period.

 

If the Company had not incurred a loss during the year ended December 31, 2022, 14,644,274 weighted average shares would have been used to compute the diluted loss per share calculation. In addition to the basic shares, weighted average shares for the diluted calculation for the year ended December 31, 2022 would have included 74,987 restricted stock units and 87,124 share equivalents for options.

The weighted average shares outstanding used to determine dilutive earnings per share for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021 does not include 346,667 and 393,333 options, respectively, which were deemed to be anti-dilutive. The year ended December 31, 2023 did not have any options that were deemed to be anti-dilutive.

21.
Statutory Financial Information

GAAP differs in certain respects from Statutory Accounting Principles (“SAP”) as prescribed or permitted by the various U.S. state insurance departments. The principal differences between SAP and GAAP are as follows:

Under SAP, investments in debt securities are primarily carried at amortized cost, while under GAAP the Company records its debt securities at estimated fair value.
Under SAP, policy acquisition costs, such as commissions, premium taxes, fees and other costs of underwriting policies are charged to current operations as incurred, while under GAAP such costs are deferred and amortized on a pro rata basis over the period covered by the policy.
Under SAP, certain assets designated as "Non-admitted assets" (such as prepaid expenses) are charged against surplus.
Under SAP, net deferred income tax assets are admitted following the application of specified criteria, with the resulting admitted deferred tax amount being credited directly to surplus.
Under SAP, certain premium receivables are non-admitted and are charged against surplus based upon aging criteria.
Under SAP, the costs and related receivables for guaranty funds and other assessments are recorded based on Management's estimate of the ultimate liability and related receivable settlement, while under GAAP such costs are accrued when the

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liability is probable and reasonably estimable and the related receivable amount is based on future premium collections or policy surcharges from in-force policies.
Under SAP, unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses and unearned premiums are reported net of the effects of reinsurance transactions, whereas under GAAP, unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses and unearned premiums are reported gross of reinsurance.
Under SAP, a provision for reinsurance is charged to surplus based on the authorized status of reinsurers, available collateral, and certain aging criteria, whereas under GAAP, an allowance for uncollectible reinsurance is established based on Management’s best estimate of the collectability of reinsurance receivables.
Under SAP, the tax impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act enacted on December 22, 2017 is recorded through surplus, whereas under GAAP, the tax impact is recorded in the Consolidated Statements of Operations.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) issues model laws and regulations, many of which have been adopted by state insurance regulators, relating to: (a) risk-based capital ("RBC") standards; (b) codification of insurance accounting principles; (c) investment restrictions; and (d) restrictions on the ability of insurance companies to pay dividends.

The Company’s insurance subsidiaries are required by law to maintain certain minimum surplus on a statutory basis, and are subject to regulations under which payment of a dividend from statutory surplus is restricted and may require prior approval of regulatory authorities. Applying the current regulatory restrictions as of December 31, 2023, the maximum amount of distributions that could be paid in 2024 by Penn-Patriot Insurance Company, the United National insurance companies, and the Penn-America insurance companies under applicable laws and regulations without regulatory approval is approximately $40.2 million, $29.8 million, and $12.6 million, respectively. The Penn-America insurance companies limitation includes $4.1 million that would be distributed to United National Insurance Company or its subsidiary, Penn Independent Corporation, based on the December 31, 2023 ownership percentages. The Company’s insurance subsidiaries did not declare or pay any dividends in 2023.

The NAIC's RBC model provides a tool for insurance regulators to determine the levels of statutory capital and surplus an insurer must maintain in relation to its insurance and investment risks, as well as its reinsurance exposures, to assess the potential need for regulatory attention. The model provides four levels of regulatory attention, varying with the ratio of an insurance company's total adjusted capital to its authorized control level RBC ("ACLRBC"). If a company’s total adjusted capital is:

(a)
less than or equal to 200%, but greater than 150% of its ACLRBC (the "Company Action Level"), the company must submit a comprehensive plan to the regulatory authority proposing corrective actions aimed at improving its capital position;
(b)
less than or equal to 150%, but greater than 100% of its ACLRBC (the "Regulatory Action Level"), the regulatory authority will perform a special examination of the company and issue an order specifying the corrective actions that must be followed;
(c)
less than or equal to 100%, but greater than 70% of its ACLRBC (the "Authorized Control Level"), the regulatory authority may take any action it deems necessary, including placing the company under regulatory control; and
(d)
less than or equal to 70% of its ACLRBC (the "Mandatory Control Level"), the regulatory authority must place the company under its control.

Based on the standards currently adopted, the Company reported in its 2023 statutory filings that the capital and surplus of the insurance companies are above the prescribed Company Action Level RBC requirements.

The following is selected information for the Company’s insurance companies, net of intercompany eliminations, where applicable, as determined in accordance with SAP:

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Statutory capital and surplus, as of end of period

 

$

402,838

 

 

$

367,275

 

 

$

359,471

 

Statutory net income

 

 

60,976

 

 

 

23,044

 

 

 

29,696

 

 

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22.
Segment Information

 

During the fourth quarter of 2023, the Company restructured its insurance operations to strengthen its market presence and enhance GBLI's focus on core products and made the decision to manage the business through two segments, Penn-America and Non-Core Operations. Management believes these segments allow users of the Company’s financial statements to better understand the Company's performance, better assess prospects for future net cash flows, and make more informed judgments about the Company as a whole. Segment results for prior years have been revised to reflect these changes.

Both segments follow the same accounting policies used for the Company’s consolidated financial statements. For further disclosure regarding the Company’s accounting policies, please see Note 4.

The Company manage the distribution of its core product offerings through its Penn-America segment (formerly known as Commercial Specialty). Penn-America offers specialty property and casualty products designed for GBLI's Wholesale Commercial, Programs, InsurTech, and Assumed Reinsurance product offerings. The Company also has a Non-Core Operations segment that contains lines of business that have been de-emphasized or are no longer being written.

The following are tabulations of business segment information for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021. Corporate information is included to reconcile segment data to the consolidated financial statements.

 

2023:
 (Dollars in thousands)

 

Penn-
America

 

 

Non-Core Operations

 

 

Total

 

Revenues:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross written premiums

 

$

369,660

 

 

$

46,737

 

 

$

416,397

 

Net written premiums

 

$

356,796

 

 

$

42,523

 

 

$

399,319

 

Net earned premiums

 

$

354,518

 

 

$

118,839

 

 

$

473,357

 

Other income

 

 

1,257

 

 

 

178

 

 

 

1,435

 

Total revenues

 

 

355,775

 

 

 

119,017

 

 

 

474,792

 

Losses and Expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net losses and loss adjustment expenses

 

 

233,239

 

 

 

55,914

 

 

 

289,153

 

Acquisition costs and other underwriting expenses

 

 

134,155

 

 

 

48,462

 

 

 

182,617

 

Income (loss) from segments

 

$

(11,619

)

 

$

14,641

 

 

 

3,022

 

Unallocated Items:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

55,444

 

Net realized investment losses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(2,107

)

Corporate and other operating expenses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(23,383

)

Income before income taxes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

32,976

 

Income tax expense

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(7,547

)

Net income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

25,429

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Segment assets

 

$

982,083

 

 

$

603,433

 

 

$

1,585,516

 

Corporate assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

144,060

 

Total assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

1,729,576

 

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2022:
 (Dollars in thousands)

 

Penn-
America

 

 

Non-Core Operations

 

 

Total

 

Revenues:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross written premiums

 

$

387,967

 

 

$

339,636

 

 

$

727,603

 

Net written premiums

 

$

370,306

 

 

$

221,025

 

 

$

591,331

 

Net earned premiums

 

$

359,597

 

 

$

242,874

 

 

$

602,471

 

Other income

 

 

1,029

 

 

 

433

 

 

 

1,462

 

Total revenues

 

 

360,626

 

 

 

243,307

 

 

 

603,933

 

Losses and Expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net losses and loss adjustment expenses

 

 

214,854

 

 

 

144,374

 

 

 

359,228

 

Acquisition costs and other underwriting expenses

 

 

135,145

 

 

 

101,236

 

 

 

236,381

 

Income (loss) from segments

 

$

10,627

 

 

$

(2,303

)

 

 

8,324

 

Unallocated Items:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

27,627

 

Net realized investment losses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(32,929

)

Other income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

29,903

 

Corporate and other operating expenses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(24,421

)

Interest expense

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(3,004

)

Loss on extinguishment of debt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(3,529

)

Income before income taxes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,971

 

Income tax expense

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(2,821

)

Net loss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

(850

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Segment assets

 

$

937,919

 

 

$

824,256

 

 

$

1,762,175

 

Corporate assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

38,600

 

Total assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

1,800,775

 

 

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2021:
 (Dollars in thousands)

 

Penn-
America

 

 

Non-Core Operations

 

 

Total

 

Revenues:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross written premiums

 

$

349,962

 

 

$

332,160

 

 

$

682,122

 

Net written premiums

 

$

328,659

 

 

$

251,409

 

 

$

580,068

 

Net earned premiums

 

$

308,676

 

 

$

286,934

 

 

$

595,610

 

Other income

 

 

1,028

 

 

 

787

 

 

 

1,815

 

Total revenues

 

 

309,704

 

 

 

287,721

 

 

 

597,425

 

Losses and Expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net losses and loss adjustment expenses

 

 

184,163

 

 

 

200,801

 

 

 

384,964

 

Acquisition costs and other underwriting expenses

 

 

113,038

 

 

 

109,803

 

 

 

222,841

 

Income (loss) from segments

 

$

12,503

 

 

$

(22,883

)

 

 

(10,380

)

Unallocated Items:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

37,020

 

Net realized investment gains

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15,887

 

Other income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

27,936

 

Corporate and other operating expenses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(27,179

)

Interest expense

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(10,481

)

Income before income taxes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

32,803

 

Income tax expense

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(3,449

)

Net income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

29,354

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Segment assets

 

$

837,108

 

 

$

920,734

 

 

$

1,757,842

 

Corporate assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

254,967

 

Total assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

2,012,809

 

23.
Supplemental Cash Flow Information

Taxes and Interest Paid

The Company paid the following net federal income taxes and interest for 2023, 2022, and 2021:

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Federal income taxes paid

 

$

613

 

 

$

426

 

 

$

54

 

Interest paid

 

 

 

 

 

5,125

 

 

 

10,340

 

 

24.
Government Assistance

Enacted in March 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act ("CARES Act") provides tax relief and incentives to help in the recovery of businesses that partially or fully suspended operations during the coronavirus (“COVID-19”) pandemic in 2020. The CARES Act contains numerous benefits, one of which is the Employee Retention Credit for Employers Subject to Closure Due to COVID-19 (the “COVID-19 Employee Retention Credit” or “ERC”). The ERC was further enhanced with the passage of the Consolidated Appropriation Act (“CAA”) in December 2020.

The Company qualified for a $5.3 million credit in 2021 by continuing to pay employees at locations that were fully or partially suspended as a result of a COVID-19 related government order. In 2021, qualified wages paid by employers with an average of 500 or less full time employees is defined as all wages paid during any quarter in which the employer is eligible for the ERC. In 2021, the credit was 70% of qualified wages up to a maximum credit of $7,000 per employee per quarter.

The Company received $5.5 million during the year ended December 31, 2022. Of this amount, $5.3 million was recorded as a reduction to compensation cost, which is a component of corporate and other operating expenses, and $0.2 million was recorded as interest income on the Company’s consolidated statements of operations during the year ended December 31, 2022. The Company did not receive any amounts during the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2021.

 

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25.
New Accounting Pronouncements

Recently Issued Accounting Guidance Not Yet Adopted

In December 2023, the FASB issued an accounting standard update to address improvements to income tax disclosures. The standard requires disaggregated information about a company’s effective tax rate reconciliation as well as information on income taxes paid. The standard is effective for public companies for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024, with early adoption permitted. The standard will be applied on a prospective basis with the option to apply the standard retrospectively. The Company does not expect the adoption of this new accounting guidance to have a material impact on the Company's financial condition, results of operations, or cash flows.

In November 2023, the FASB issued an accounting standard update to address improvements to reportable segment disclosures. The standard primarily requires the following disclosure on an annual and interim basis: (i) significant segment expenses that are regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker ("CODM") and included within each reported measure of segment profit or loss; and (ii) other segment items and description of its composition. The standard also requires current annual disclosures about a reportable segment's profits or losses and assets to be disclosed in interim periods and the title and position of the CODM with an explanation of how the CODM uses the reported measure(s) of segment profits or losses in assessing segment performance and deciding how to allocate resources. The guidance is effective for public companies for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023 and interim periods within those fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024, with early adoption permitted. The amendment is applied retrospectively to all prior periods presented. The Company does not expect the adoption of this new accounting guidance to have a material impact on the Company's financial condition, results of operations, or cash flows.

 

26.
Subsequent Events

Chief Executive Officer Agreement

The Company entered into a new Chief Executive Officer Agreement ("2024 CEO Agreement") with Joseph W. Brown on January 18, 2024. The 2024 CEO agreement provides for a grant of 200,000 stock options to acquire GBLI Class A common shares with an exercise price equal to the closing price of GBLI's Class A common shares on the date of the grant. The options vest in four equal tranches as follows: 25% on each of the first business day of each quarter in 2024 (subject to Mr. Brown remaining employed with the Company through each vesting date), and to the extent vested, are exercisable within 7 years of the grant notwithstanding any earlier termination of employment.

The 2024 CEO Agreement further provides that on the first business day of each year, beginning in 2025 through 2028, if Mr. Brown is employed by the Company, he shall be granted 50,000 stock options to acquire GBLI Class A common shares with an exercise price equal to the closing price of GBLI's Class A common shares on the date of the grant. The options, if granted, will vest on December 31, 2028 (subject to Mr. Brown remaining employed with the Company or serving on the Company's Board of Directors through the vesting date), and to the extent vested, are exercisable within 7 years of the grant notwithstanding any earlier termination of employment.

Distribution

On March 6, 2024, the Board of Directors approved a dividend rate of $0.35 per common share payable on March 28, 2024 to all shareholders of record as of the close of business on March 21, 2024, a 40% increase over the prior quarterly dividend rate of $0.25 per common share. Future dividends remain subject to the discretion of GBLI’s Board of Directors, including the Board of Director’s evaluation of the company’s financial performance, capital and reserve positions, liquidity, balance sheet, and other factors.

 

 

 

 

 

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Item 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE

None

Item 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

The Company maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as that term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)) that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the Company's reports under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission's rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to the Company's management, including its Principal Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures. Any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives. The Company's management, with the participation of its Principal Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, has evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31, 2023. Based upon that evaluation and subject to the foregoing, the Principal Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of December 31, 2023, the design and operation of the Company's disclosure controls and procedures were effective to accomplish their objectives at the reasonable assurance level.

Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

Management of the Company is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting. The Company's internal control over financial reporting is designed to provide reasonable assurances regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of the consolidated financial statements of the Company in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

The Company's internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that:

pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the Company;
provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures are being made only in accordance with authorizations of the Company's management and Directors; and
provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

Management has assessed the Company's internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2023. The standard measures adopted by management in making its evaluation are the measures in the Internal Control Integrated Framework published by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission in 2013.

Based upon its assessment, management has concluded that the Company's internal control over financial reporting was effective at December 31, 2023, and that there were no material weaknesses in the Company's internal control over financial reporting as of that date.

Ernst & Young, LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, which has audited and reported on the consolidated financial statements contained in this Form 10-K, has issued its report on the effectiveness of the Company's internal control over financial reporting. See “Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm” on page 126.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

There have been no changes in the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting that occurred during the quarter ended December 31, 2023 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting.

 

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Shareholders and the Board of Directors of Global Indemnity Group, LLC

Opinion on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

We have audited Global Indemnity Group, LLC’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2023, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework) (the COSO criteria). In our opinion, Global Indemnity Group, LLC (the Company) maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2023, based on the COSO criteria.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the consolidated balance sheets of the Company as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income (loss), changes in shareholders' equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2023, and the related notes and financial statement schedules listed in the Index at Item 15(a) and our report dated March 15, 2024 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.

Basis for Opinion

The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting included in the accompanying Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects.

Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Definition and Limitations of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

March 15, 2024

 

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Item 9B. OTHER INFORMATION

None

Item 9C. DISCLOSURE REGARDING FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS THAT PREVENT INSPECTIONS

Not applicable

 

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PART III

Item 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

The information required by this Item is incorporated by reference to, and will be contained in, the Company’s definitive proxy statement relating to the 2024 Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be filed with the SEC within 120 days of the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 (“2024 Proxy Statement”).

Item 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

The information required by this Item is incorporated by reference to, and will be contained in, the Company’s 2024 Proxy Statement.

Item 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT, AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS

The information required by this Item is incorporated by reference to, and will be contained in, the Company’s 2024 Proxy Statement.

The information required by this Item is incorporated by reference to, and will be contained in, the Company’s 2024 Proxy Statement.

Item 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES

The information required by this Item is incorporated by reference to, and will be contained in, the Company’s 2024 Proxy Statement.

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PART IV

Item 15. EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES

The agreements and other documents filed as exhibits to this report are not intended to provide factual information or other disclosure other than with respect to the terms of the agreements or other documents themselves, and you should not rely on them for that purpose. In particular, any representations and warranties made by the Company in these agreements or other documents were made solely within the specific context of the relevant agreement or document and may not describe the actual state of affairs as of the date they were made or at any other time.

The following documents are filed as part of this report:

(a)(1) The Financial Statements listed in the accompanying index on page 72 are filed as part of this report.

(a)(2) The Financial Statement Schedules listed in the accompanying index on page 72 are filed as part of this report.

 

Exhibit

No.

 

Description

 

 

 

    3.1

 

Share Designation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K12B dated August 28, 2020 (File No. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

    3.2

 

Second Amended and Restated LLC Agreement of Global Indemnity Group, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K12B dated August 28, 2020 (File no. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

    4.1+

 

Description of Securities

 

 

 

    4.2

 

Indenture, dated as of August 12, 2015, by and between the Company and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated August 12, 2015) (File No. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

    4.3

 

First Supplemental Indenture, dated November 7, 2016, among Global Indemnity Limited, Global Indemnity plc and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee, to the Indenture dated as of August 12, 2015 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K12B dated November 7, 2016 (File No. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

    4.4

 

Officers’ Certificate, dated August 12, 2015 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated August 12, 2015 (File No. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

    4.5

 

Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 23, 2017, among Global Indemnity Limited, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, and U.S. Bank National Association (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated March 23, 2017 (File No. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

    4.6

 

Form of 7.875% Subordinated Notes due 2047 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.7 of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019 (File No. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

    4.7

 

Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 25, 2018, by and among the Company, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, and U.S. Bank National Association (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated April 25, 2018 (File No. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

    4.8

 

Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 28, 2020, among Global Indemnity Limited, GBLI Holdings, LLC, New CayCo, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee and U.S. Bank, National Association, as trustee, to the Indenture dated as of August 12, 2015 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K12B dated August 28, 2020 (File no. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

    4.9

 

Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 28, 2020, among New CayCo, GBLI Holdings, LLC, Global Indemnity Group, LLC, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee and U.S. Bank, National Association, as trustee, to the Indenture dated as of August 12, 2015 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K12B dated August 28, 2020 (File no. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

  10.1*

 

Second Amended and Restated Management Agreement, dated May 6, 2020, by and among Global Indemnity Limited and Fox Paine & Company, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of the Company’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2020 (File No. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

  10.2*

 

Third Amended and Restated Management Agreement, dated as of August 28, 2020, by and between Global Indemnity Group, LLC and Fox Paine & Company, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K12B dated August 28, 2020 (File no. 001-34809)).

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  10.3*

 

Management Agreement, dated as of September 5, 2003, by and among United National Group, Ltd., Fox Paine & Company, LLC and The AMC Group, L.P. with related Indemnity Letter (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 of Amendment No. 1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 333-108857) filed on October 28, 2003)(File No. 000-50511)).

 

 

 

  10.4*

 

Global Indemnity Limited Share Incentive Plan, as amended and restated and effective as of November 7, 2016 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.15 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K12B dated November 7, 2016 (File No. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

  10.5*

 

Global Indemnity Limited 2018 Share Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 of the Company’s current Report on Form 8-K dated June 14, 2018 (File No. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

  10.6*

 

Amended and Restated Global Indemnity Group, LLC 2018 Share Incentive Plan, dated as of August 28, 2020 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.7 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K12B dated August 28, 2020 (File no. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

  10.7*

 

Global Indemnity Group, LLC 2023 Share Incentive Plan, dated as of April 4, 2023 (incorporated by reference to Appendix A of the Company’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A, filed on April 28, 2023).

 

 

 

  10.8*

 

Global Indemnity Limited Annual Incentive Awards Program, as amended and restated and effective as of November 7, 2016 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.16 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K12B dated November 7, 2016 (File No. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

  10.9*

 

Amended and Restated Global Indemnity Group, LLC Annual Incentive Awards Program, dated as of August 28, 2020 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.8 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K12B dated August 28, 2020 (File no. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

  10.10*

 

Amended and Restated Shareholders Agreement, dated July 2, 2010, by and among Global Indemnity plc (as successor to United America Indemnity, Ltd.) and the signatories thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K12B dated July 2, 2010 (File No. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

  10.11*

 

Assignment and Assumption Agreement relating to the Amended and Restated Shareholders Agreement, dated July 2, 2010 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.7 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K12B dated July 2, 2010 (File No. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

  10.12*

 

Amendment to the Amended and Restated Shareholders Agreement, dated as of October 31, 2013, by and among Global Indemnity plc and the signatories thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 of the Company’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2013 (File No. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

  10.13*

 

Assignment and Assumption Agreement, dated as of November 7, 2016, between Global Indemnity Limited and Global Indemnity plc (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K12B dated November 7, 2016 (File No. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

  10.14*

 

Indemnification Agreement between United America Indemnity, Ltd. and Fox Paine Capital Fund II International L.P., dated July 2, 2010 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.8 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K12b dated July 2, 2010 (File No. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

  10.15*

 

Assignment and Assumption Agreement, dated as of November 7, 2016, between Global Indemnity Limited, Global Indemnity plc and Fox Paine Capital Fund II International L.P. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.13 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K12B dated November 7, 2016 (File No. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

  10.16*

 

Executive Employment Agreement, dated as of December 8, 2009, between United America Indemnity, Ltd. and Thomas M. McGeehan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.27 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009 (File No. 000-50511)).

 

 

 

  10.17*

 

Amendment to Executive Employment Agreement with Thomas M. McGeehan, dated November 7, 2016 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.10 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K12B dated November 7, 2016 (File No. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

  10.18*

 

Amendment to the Executive Employment Agreement with Thomas M. McGeehan, dated as of August 28, 2020 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K12B dated August 28, 2020 (File no. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

  10.19*

 

Terms of Employment with Jonathan E. Oltman effective January 19, 2021. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.24 of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 (File No. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

130


  10.20*

 

Separation Agreement with Jonathan E. Oltman effective January 17, 2024 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated January 19, 2024 (File No. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

  10.21*

 

Chief Executive Officer Agreement with Joseph W. Brown dated November 16, 2022 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated November 22, 2022 (File No. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

  10.22+

 

Chief Executive Officer Agreement with Joseph W. Brown dated January 18, 2024.

 

 

 

  10.23

 

Institutional Services Customer Agreement dated as of December 12, 2016 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2017 (File No. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

  10.24

 

Confidentiality Agreement between Fox Paine & Company, LLC and Global Indemnity Limited, dated September 17, 2017 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2017 (File No. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

  10.25

 

Preferred Interest Purchase Agreement, dated as of August 27, 2020, by and between Global Indemnity Group, LLC and Wyncote LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K12B dated August 28, 2020 (File No. 001-34809)).

 

 

 

  21.1+

 

List of Subsidiaries.

 

 

 

  23.1+

 

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.

 

 

 

  31.1+

 

Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

 

 

 

  31.2+

 

Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

 

 

 

  32.1+

 

Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

 

 

 

  32.2+

 

Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

 

 

 

  97.1+

 

Clawback Policy.

 

 

 

101.INS

 

Inline XBRL Instance Document – the instance document does not appear in the Interactive Data File because its XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document.

101.SCH

Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema With Embedded Linkbases Document

104

 

Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document)

 

 

 

+

 

Filed or furnished herewith.

 

 

 

*

 

Management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement required to be filed as an exhibit to this Form 10-K.

 

Item 16. Form 10-K Summary

None.

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Section 13 or 15 (d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Global Indemnity has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

GLOBAL INDEMNITY GROUP, LLC

 

By:

 

/s/ Joseph W. Brown

Name:

 

Joseph W. Brown

Title:

 

Chief Executive Officer

Date:

 

March 15, 2024

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities indicated below on March 15, 2024.

 

SIGNATURE

 

TITLE

 

 

 

/s/ Saul A. Fox

 

Chairman

Saul A. Fox

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Joseph W. Brown

 

Chief Executive Officer and Director

Joseph W. Brown

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Thomas M. McGeehan

 

Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

Thomas M. McGeehan

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Fred R. Donner

 

Director

Fred R. Donner

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Seth J. Gersch

 

Director

Seth J. Gersch

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Jason B. Hurwitz

 

Director

Jason B. Hurwitz

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Fred E. Karlinsky

 

Director

Fred E. Karlinsky

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Gary C. Tolman

 

Director

Gary C. Tolman

 

 

 

 

 

 

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GLOBAL INDEMNITY GROUP, LLC

SCHEDULE I -- SUMMARY OF INVESTMENTS -- OTHER THAN INVESTMENTS

IN RELATED PARTIES

(In thousands)

 

 

 

As of December 31, 2023

 

 

 

Cost *

 

 

Value

 

 

Amount
Included in the
Balance Sheet

 

Type of Investment:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fixed maturities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

United States government and government agencies and authorities

 

$

497,099

 

$

494,223

 

 

$

494,223

 

States, municipalities, and political subdivisions

 

 

27,326

 

 

26,150

 

 

 

26,150

 

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities

 

 

354,610

 

 

340,959

 

 

 

340,959

 

Public utilities

 

 

27,346

 

 

26,629

 

 

 

26,629

 

All other corporate bonds

 

 

415,711

 

 

405,832

 

 

 

405,832

 

Total fixed maturities

 

 

1,322,092

 

 

 

1,293,793

 

 

 

1,293,793

 

Equity securities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Public utilities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Industrial and miscellaneous

 

 

16,508

 

 

16,508

 

 

 

16,508

 

Total equity securities

 

 

16,508

 

 

 

16,508

 

 

 

16,508

 

Other long-term investments

 

 

38,236

 

 

38,236

 

 

 

38,236

 

Total investments

 

$

1,376,836

 

 

$

1,348,537

 

 

$

1,348,537

 

 

* Original cost of fixed maturities adjusted for amortization of premiums and accretion of discounts; original cost of equity securities and other long-term investments adjusted for income or loss earned on investments in accordance with equity method of accounting. All amounts are shown net of impairment losses.

 

 

S-1


 

GLOBAL INDEMNITY GROUP, LLC

SCHEDULE II – Condensed Financial Information of Registrant

(Parent Only)

Balance Sheets

(Dollars in thousands, except share data)

 

ASSETS

 

December 31, 2023

 

 

December 31, 2022

 

Fixed maturities

 

$

70,464

 

 

$

86,310

 

Equity securities, at fair value

 

 

436

 

 

 

1,694

 

Other invested assets

 

 

26,016

 

 

 

23,573

 

Total investments

 

 

96,916

 

 

 

111,577

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

 

40

 

 

 

4,775

 

Intercompany note receivable (1)

 

 

69,400

 

 

 

69,400

 

Interest receivable – affiliates

 

 

1,501

 

 

 

627

 

Equity in unconsolidated subsidiaries (1)

 

 

482,653

 

 

 

444,517

 

Other assets

 

 

997

 

 

 

1,130

 

Total assets

 

$

651,507

 

 

$

632,026

 

LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY

 

 

 

 

 

 

Liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Payable for securities

 

$

 

 

$

49

 

Due to affiliates (1)

 

 

2,411

 

 

 

4,623

 

Other liabilities

 

 

343

 

 

 

1,125

 

Total liabilities

 

 

2,754

 

 

 

5,797

 

Commitments and contingencies

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shareholders’ equity:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Series A cumulative fixed rate preferred shares, $1,000 par value; 100,000,000 shares authorized, shares issued and outstanding: 4,000 and 4,000 shares, respectively, liquidation preference: $1,000 per share and $1,000 per share, respectively

 

 

4,000

 

 

 

4,000

 

Common shares: no par value; 900,000,000 common shares authorized; class A common shares issued: 11,042,670 and 10,876,041, respectively; class A common shares outstanding: 9,771,429 and 10,073,660, respectively; class B common shares issued and outstanding: 3,793,612 and 3,793,612, respectively

 

 

 

 

 

 

Additional paid-in capital

 

 

454,791

 

 

 

451,305

 

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax

 

 

(22,863

)

 

 

(43,058

)

Retained earnings

 

 

244,988

 

 

 

233,468

 

Class A common shares in treasury, at cost: 1,271,241 and 802,381 shares, respectively

 

 

(32,163

)

 

 

(19,486

)

Total shareholders' equity

 

 

648,753

 

 

 

626,229

 

Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity

 

$

651,507

 

 

$

632,026

 

 

(1)
This item has been eliminated in the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements.

See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in Item 8.

 

S-2


 

GLOBAL INDEMNITY GROUP, LLC

SCHEDULE II – Condensed Financial Information of Registrant (continued)

(Parent Only)

Statement of Operations and Comprehensive Income

(Dollars in thousands)

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Revenues:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income

 

$

6,141

 

 

$

(1,980

)

 

$

6,763

 

Intercompany interest income (1)

 

 

874

 

 

 

627

 

 

 

 

Net realized investment gains (losses)

 

 

(416

)

 

 

(4,620

)

 

 

13,563

 

Total revenues

 

 

6,599

 

 

 

(5,973

)

 

 

20,326

 

Expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Intercompany interest expense (1)

 

 

 

 

 

2

 

 

 

1

 

Interest expense

 

 

 

 

 

41

 

 

 

142

 

Corporate and other operating expenses

 

 

601

 

 

 

723

 

 

 

864

 

Loss on extinguishment of debt

 

 

 

 

 

3,529

 

 

 

 

Income (loss) before equity in earnings of unconsolidated subsidiaries

 

 

5,998

 

 

 

(10,268

)

 

 

19,319

 

Equity in earnings of unconsolidated subsidiaries (1)

 

 

19,431

 

 

 

9,418

 

 

 

10,035

 

Net income (loss)

 

 

25,429

 

 

 

(850

)

 

 

29,354

 

Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unrealized holdings gain (losses) arising during the period

 

 

1,287

 

 

 

(8,274

)

 

 

(3,568

)

Equity in other comprehensive income (loss) of unconsolidated subsidiaries (1)

 

 

18,703

 

 

 

(45,764

)

 

 

(24,300

)

Recognition of previously unrealized holding (gains) losses

 

 

205

 

 

 

4,576

 

 

 

(36

)

Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax

 

 

20,195

 

 

 

(49,462

)

 

 

(27,904

)

Comprehensive income (loss), net of tax

 

$

45,624

 

 

$

(50,312

)

 

$

1,450

 

 

(1)
This item has been eliminated in the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements.

See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in Item 8.

S-3


 

 

GLOBAL INDEMNITY GROUP, LLC

Condensed Financial Information of Registrant – (continued)

(Parent Only)

Statements of Cash Flows

(Dollars in thousands)

 

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Net cash provided by operating activities

 

$

4,388

 

 

$

7,720

 

 

$

7,264

 

Cash flows from investing activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proceeds from sale of fixed maturities

 

 

17,226

 

 

 

70,151

 

 

 

84,070

 

Proceeds from sale of equity securities

 

 

1,158

 

 

 

76,466

 

 

 

27,600

 

Proceeds from maturity of fixed maturities

 

 

240

 

 

 

438

 

 

 

1,087

 

Proceeds from other invested assets

 

 

 

 

 

58,577

 

 

 

 

Purchases of fixed maturities

 

 

(271

)

 

 

(105,025

)

 

 

(60,800

)

Purchases of equity securities

 

 

(111

)

 

 

(939

)

 

 

(30,956

)

Purchases of other invested assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(25,000

)

Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities

 

 

18,242

 

 

 

99,668

 

 

 

(3,999

)

Cash flows from financing activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Distributions paid to common shareholders

 

 

(14,248

)

 

 

(14,366

)

 

 

(14,431

)

Distributions paid to preferred shareholders

 

 

(440

)

 

 

(440

)

 

 

(440

)

Issuance of note receivable to affiliates

 

 

 

 

 

(69,400

)

 

 

 

Proceeds from the repayment of a note receivable from affiliate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11,283

 

Proceeds from issuance of note payable to affiliates

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2,800

 

Repayment of note payable to affiliates

 

 

 

 

 

(2,800

)

 

 

 

Purchase of class A common shares

 

 

(12,677

)

 

 

(22,335

)

 

 

(490

)

Issuance of class A common shares

 

 

 

 

 

3,339

 

 

 

 

Net cash used in financing activities

 

 

(27,365

)

 

 

(106,002

)

 

 

(1,278

)

Net change in cash and equivalents

 

 

(4,735

)

 

 

1,386

 

 

 

1,987

 

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period

 

 

4,775

 

 

 

3,389

 

 

 

1,402

 

Cash and cash equivalents at end of period

 

$

40

 

 

$

4,775

 

 

$

3,389

 

 

See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in Item 8.

 

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GLOBAL INDEMNITY GROUP, LLC

SCHEDULE III -- SUPPLEMENTARY INSURANCE INFORMATION

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Segment

 

Deferred
Policy
Acquisition
Costs

 

 

Future Policy
Benefits,
Losses, Claims
And Loss
Expenses

 

 

Unearned
Premiums

 

 

Other Policy
and Benefits
Payable

 

At December 31, 2023:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Penn-America

 

$

34,908

 

 

$

408,720

 

 

$

161,135

 

 

$

-

 

Non-Core Operations

 

 

7,537

 

 

 

441,879

 

 

 

21,717

 

 

 

-

 

At December 31, 2022:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Penn-America

 

$

34,290

 

 

$

366,133

 

 

$

159,554

 

 

$

-

 

Non-Core Operations

 

 

30,604

 

 

 

466,271

 

 

 

109,799

 

 

 

-

 

At December 31, 2021:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Penn-America

 

$

31,370

 

 

$

319,085

 

 

$

147,999

 

 

$

-

 

Non-Core Operations

 

 

28,961

 

 

 

440,819

 

 

 

168,567

 

 

 

-

 

 

Segment

 

Premium
Revenue

 

 

Benefits, Claims,
Losses And
Settlement
Expenses

 

 

Amortization of
Deferred Policy
Acquisition Costs

 

 

Net
Written
Premium

 

For the year ended December 31, 2023:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Penn-America

 

$

354,518

 

 

$

233,239

 

 

$

80,226

 

 

$

356,796

 

Non-Core Operations

 

 

118,839

 

 

 

55,914

 

 

 

40,657

 

 

 

42,523

 

Total

 

$

473,357

 

 

$

289,153

 

 

$

120,883

 

 

$

399,319

 

For the year ended December 31, 2022:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Penn-America

 

$

359,597

 

 

$

214,854

 

 

$

81,638

 

 

$

370,306

 

Non-Core Operations

 

 

242,874

 

 

 

144,374

 

 

 

69,308

 

 

 

221,025

 

Total

 

$

602,471

 

 

$

359,228

 

 

$

150,946

 

 

$

591,331

 

For the year ended December 31, 2021:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Penn-America

 

$

308,676

 

 

$

184,163

 

 

$

74,494

 

 

$

328,659

 

Non-Core Operations

 

 

286,934

 

 

 

200,801

 

 

 

70,450

 

 

 

251,409

 

Total

 

$

595,610

 

 

$

384,964

 

 

$

144,944

 

 

$

580,068

 

 

Unallocated Corporate Items

 

Net
Investment
Income

 

 

Corporate and
Other Operating
Expenses

 

For the year ended December 31, 2023:

 

$

55,444

 

 

$

23,383

 

For the year ended December 31, 2022:

 

 

27,627

 

 

 

24,421

 

For the year ended December 31, 2021:

 

 

37,020

 

 

 

27,179

 

 

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GLOBAL INDEMNITY GROUP, LLC

SCHEDULE IV -- REINSURANCE

EARNED PREMIUMS

(Dollars in thousands)

 

 

 

Direct
Amount

 

 

Ceded to
Other
Companies

 

 

Assumed from
Other
Companies

 

 

Net
Amount

 

 

Percentage
of Amount
Assumed to Net

For the year ended December 31, 2023:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Property & Liability Insurance

 

$

376,288

 

 

$

29,542

 

 

$

126,611

 

 

$

473,357

 

 

26.7%

For the year ended December 31, 2022:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Property & Liability Insurance

 

$

589,131

 

 

$

122,556

 

 

$

135,896

 

 

$

602,471

 

 

22.6%

For the year ended December 31, 2021:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Property & Liability Insurance

 

$

578,171

 

 

$

61,441

 

 

$

78,880

 

 

$

595,610

 

 

13.2%

 

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GLOBAL INDEMNITY GROUP, LLC

SCHEDULE V - VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS AND RESERVES

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Description

 

Balance at Beginning of Period

 

 

Charged (Credited) to Costs and Expenses

 

 

Charged (Credited) to Other Accounts

 

 

Other Deductions

 

 

Balance at End of Period

 

For the year ended December 31, 2023:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investment asset valuation reserves:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mortgage loans

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

Real estate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allowance for doubtful accounts:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Premiums, accounts and notes receivable

 

$

3,322

 

 

$

1,474

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

4,796

 

Deferred tax asset valuation allowance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reinsurance receivables

 

 

8,992

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8,992

 

For the year ended December 31, 2022:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investment asset valuation reserves:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mortgage loans

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

Real estate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allowance for doubtful accounts:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Premiums, accounts and notes receivable

 

$

2,996

 

 

$

326

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

3,322

 

Deferred tax asset valuation allowance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reinsurance receivables

 

 

8,992

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8,992

 

For the year ended December 31, 2021:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investment asset valuation reserves:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mortgage loans

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

Real estate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allowance for doubtful accounts:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Premiums, accounts and notes receivable

 

$

2,900

 

 

$

96

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

2,996

 

Deferred tax asset valuation allowance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reinsurance receivables

 

 

8,992

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8,992

 

 

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GLOBAL INDEMNITY GROUP, LLC

SCHEDULE VI -- SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION FOR PROPERTY CASUALTY UNDERWRITERS

(Dollars in thousands)

 

 

 

Deferred Policy
Acquisition Costs

 

 

Reserves for
Unpaid Claims
and Claim
Adjustment
Expenses

 

 

Discount If
Any Deducted

 

 

Unearned
Premiums

 

Consolidated Property & Casualty Entities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As of December 31, 2023

 

$

42,445

 

 

$

850,599

 

 

$

 

 

$

182,852

 

As of December 31, 2022

 

 

64,894

 

 

 

832,404

 

 

 

 

 

 

269,353

 

As of December 31, 2021

 

 

60,331

 

 

 

759,904

 

 

 

 

 

 

316,566

 

 

 

 

Earned

 

 

Net
Investment

 

 

Claims and Claim Adjustment
Expense Incurred Related To

 

 

Amortization Of Deferred Policy

 

 

Paid Claims
and Claim
Adjustment

 

 

Premiums

 

 

 

Premiums

 

 

Income

 

 

Current Year

 

 

Prior Year

 

 

Acquisition Costs

 

 

Expenses

 

 

Written

 

Consolidated Property & Casualty Entities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the year ended December 31, 2023:

 

$

473,357

 

 

$

55,444

 

 

$

279,609

 

 

$

9,544

 

 

$

120,883

 

 

$

270,766

 

 

$

399,319

 

For the year ended December 31, 2022:

 

 

602,471

 

 

 

27,627

 

 

 

367,298

 

 

 

(8,070

)

 

 

150,946

 

 

 

265,306

 

 

 

591,331

 

For the year ended December 31, 2021:

 

 

595,610

 

 

 

37,020

 

 

 

376,306

 

 

 

8,658

 

 

 

144,944

 

 

 

300,156

 

 

 

580,068

 

 

Note: All of the Company's insurance subsidiaries are 100% owned and consolidated.

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