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Statutory Accounting Information (unaudited)
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2011
Statutory Accounting Information (unaudited)
14. Statutory Accounting Information (unaudited)

 

Insurance companies use statutory accounting practices (SAP) as prescribed by regulatory authorities. The primary differences between SAP and GAAP include the valuation of unrealized investment gains and losses, expensing of policy acquisition costs, actuarial assumptions for life insurance reserves and deferred income taxes based on differences in statutory and taxable income.

 

Statutory net income and capital and surplus are determined in accordance with SAP prescribed or permitted by insurance regulatory authorities for five legal entities, our insurance subsidiary and its four insurance subsidiaries. Statutory capital and surplus for our insurance subsidiary, The Cincinnati Insurance Company, includes capital and surplus of its four insurance subsidiaries. The statutory net income and statutory surplus are presented below:

 

    SAP Net Income (Loss)     Capital and Surplus  
    Years ended December 31,     At December 31,  
(In millions)   2011     2010     2009     2011     2010  
The Cincinnati Insurance Company   $ 120     $ 318     $ 339     $ 3,747     $ 3,777  
The Cincinnati Casualty Company     15       10       29       280       269  
The Cincinnati Indemnity Company     2       2       8       73       70  
The Cincinnati Specialty Underwriters Insurance Company     11       1       (7 )     186       172  
The Cincinnati Life Insurance Company     (13 )     15       15       281       303