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Policyholders Liabilities (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2013

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	2013		2012

	(in thousands)
Life insurance – domestic	$	5,768,262	$	3,804,994
Life insurance – Taiwan		1,151,503		1,109,723
Individual and group annuities		320,451		338,505
Policy claims and other contract liabilities		(323,547)		1,443,591
Total future policy benefits	$	6,916,669	$	6,696,813

Schedule Of Policyholders Account Balances

	2013		2012

	(in thousands)
Interest-sensitive life contracts	$	11,456,129	$	5,327,169
Individual annuities		1,624,523		1,736,810
Guaranteed interest accounts		450,738		820,502
Other		771,941		672,596
Total policyholders’ account balances	$	14,303,330	$	8,557,077

- Definition

The entire disclosure for the present values of future benefits to be paid to or on behalf of policyholders and related expenses less the present value of future net premiums using assumptions such as estimates of expected investment yields, mortality, morbidity, terminations and expenses, applicable at the time the insurance contracts are made and unpaid claim costs relating to insurance contracts including estimates of costs relating to incurred but not reported claims based on the estimated ultimate cost of settling the claims (including effects of inflation and other societal and economic factors), using past experience adjusted for current trends and any other factors that would modify past experience by element such as business segment, country and interest rate range.

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