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Current Liquidity and Statutory Capital and Surplus
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2016
Current Liquidity And Statutory Capital And Surplus [Abstract]  
Current Liquidity and Statutory Capital and Surplus

19. Current Liquidity and Statutory Capital and Surplus

The Company has $70.0 million in long-term borrowings of which $40.0 million matures in 2037 and $30.0 million matures in 2025. At December 31, 2016, the Company was in compliance with the covenants related to these borrowings. Such borrowings are not obligations of the Company’s regulated insurance company subsidiaries who at December 31, 2016 had combined statutory capital and surplus of $58.9 million. The Company believes that it has sufficient liquidity to meet its current obligations in the foreseeable future, including the payment of interest on its long-term borrowings which it currently funds through the cash flows of its agency operations which are generated outside the Company’s regulated insurance company subsidiaries and are not subject to any limitation on the payment of dividends to the holding company.

The Company has three insurance company subsidiaries that are organized and domiciled under the insurance statutes of Texas, Georgia, and Tennessee. The insurance company subsidiaries operate under licenses issued by various state insurance authorities. Such licenses may be of perpetual duration or periodically renewable, provided the insurance company subsidiaries continue to meet applicable regulatory requirements.

For the year ended December 31, 2016, the insurance company subsidiaries experienced a reduction in combined statutory capital and surplus of $39.9 million, primarily as a result of unfavorable loss development. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) Model Act for risk-based capital provides formulas to determine each December 31 on an annual basis the amount of statutory capital and surplus that an insurance company needs to ensure that it has an acceptable expectation of not becoming financially impaired. Failure to meet applicable minimum risk-based capital requirements could subject our insurance company subsidiaries to further examination or corrective action imposed by state regulators, including limitations on their writing of additional business, state supervision or even liquidation. Risk-based capital calculations are only made as of each December 31, and the three insurance company subsidiaries were each above the minimum regulatory company action levels as of December 31, 2016. There are also statutory guidelines that suggest that on an annual calendar year basis an insurance company should not exceed a ratio of net premiums written to statutory capital and surplus of 3-to-1. On a combined basis, the ratio for the insurance company subsidiaries of net premiums written for the last twelve months to statutory capital and surplus was 5.08-to-1 at December 31, 2016 which is in excess of the suggested guidelines. Management is currently operating under a business plan to reduce premium writings and increase statutory capital and surplus to address the net premiums written to statutory capital and surplus guidelines.