Automobile liability reserves were decreased in Personal Lines principally due to lower estimated severity on AARP Direct and Agency claims, primarily within accident years 2017 to 2019, and a reduction in estimated reserves for extra contractual liability claims.

Catastrophes reserves were decreased in both Commercial and Personal Lines primarily driven by an expected recovery of subrogation from a utility related to the 2018 Woolsey wildfire in California.

Uncollectible reinsurance reserves were decreased due to a higher than expected recovery from one reinsurer on which the Company had recognized an allowance for credit losses.

Other reserve re-estimates, net, were increased primarily due to an increase in reserves for sexual molestation and sexual abuse claims within P&C Other Operations, principally on assumed reinsurance.

Re-estimates of prior accident year reserves for the three months ended March 31, 2020

Workers’ compensation reserves were reduced on

national account business within middle & large commercial, driven by lower than previously estimated claim severity for the 2014 and prior accident years.

General liability reserves were increased, primarily

related to guaranteed cost construction business for accident years 2016 to 2019 as incurred losses are developing higher than previously expected for premises and operations claims and product liability claims, partly due to a change in industry mix and a heavier concentration of losses in California than initially assumed.

Marine reserves were increased principally due to an increase in domestic marine liability, mostly in accident years 2017 and 2018 due to a higher number of large losses. The increase in marine reserves is included as a component of the change in deferred gain under retroactive reinsurance in the above table.

Commercial property reserves were decreased for

accident year 2019 due to favorable developments on marine and middle market property claims.

Automobile liability reserves were decreased in

Personal Lines principally due to lower than previously expected AARP Direct automobile liability claim severity for the 2018 accident year. Automobile liability reserves were increased in Commercial Lines primarily due to higher than expected large losses on national accounts in the first quarter of 2020 related to accident years 2015 to 2017.

Catastrophes reserves were reduced, primarily due to a reduction in estimated catastrophes for the 2019 accident year and a reduction in estimated reserves for 2017 California wildfires, partially offset by an increase in reserves for 2019 typhoons Hagibis and Faxai in Asia.

Other reserve re-estimates, net, primarily included

an increase in reserves on pool participations.

Settlement Agreement with Boy Scouts of America

On April 16, 2021, the Company announced that it has entered into a Settlement Agreement and Release with Boy Scouts of America pursuant to which The Hartford will pay $650 for sexual molestation and sexual abuse claims associated with policies mostly issued in the 1970s. The agreement, entered into after extensive negotiations, contemplates that, in exchange for The Hartford’s payment, the BSA and its local councils will fully release The Hartford from any obligation under policies it issued to the BSA and its local councils. The agreement is in connection with BSA’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will become effective upon the occurrence of certain conditions, including confirmation of the BSA’s global resolution plan, executed releases from the local councils, and approval from the abuse claimants and bankruptcy court. The Hartford and the BSA hope to receive court approval in the third quarter of 2021, but this could be delayed for various procedural reasons.

Adverse Development Covers

The Company has an adverse development cover reinsurance agreement with NICO, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., to reinsure loss development after 2016 on substantially all of the Company’s asbestos and environmental reserves (the “A&E ADC”). Under the A&E ADC, the Company paid a reinsurance premium of $650 for NICO to assume adverse net loss reserve development up to $1.5 billion above the Company’s existing net A&E reserves as of December 31, 2016 of approximately $1.7 billion including reserves for A&E exposure for accident years prior to 1986 that are reported in Property & Casualty Other Operations ("Run-off A&E") and reserves for A&E exposure for accident years 1986 and subsequent from policies underwritten prior to 2016 that are reported in ongoing Commercial Lines and Personal Lines. The $650 reinsurance premium was placed into a collateral trust account as security for NICO’s claim payment obligations to the Company. The Company has retained the risk of collection on amounts due from other third-party reinsurers and continues to be responsible for claims handling and other administrative services, subject to certain conditions. The A&E ADC covers substantially all the Company’s A&E reserve development up to the reinsurance limit.

Under retroactive reinsurance accounting, net adverse A&E reserve development after December 31, 2016 will result in an offsetting reinsurance recoverable up to the $1.5 billion limit. Cumulative ceded losses up to the $650 reinsurance premium paid have been recognized as a dollar-for-dollar offset to direct losses incurred. Cumulative ceded losses exceeding the $650 reinsurance premium paid result in a deferred gain. As of March 31, 2021, the Company has incurred $860 in cumulative adverse development on asbestos and environmental reserves that have been ceded under the A&E ADC treaty with NICO with $640 of available limit remaining under the A&E ADC. As a result, the Company has recorded a $210 deferred gain within other liabilities, representing the difference between the reinsurance recoverable of $860 and ceded premium paid of $650. The deferred gain is recognized over the claim settlement period in the proportion of the amount of cumulative ceded losses collected from the reinsurer to the estimated ultimate reinsurance recoveries. Consequently, until periods when the deferred gain is recognized as a benefit to earnings, cumulative adverse development of asbestos and environmental claims will result in charges against earnings which may be significant.

Immediately after closing on the acquisition of Navigators Group, effective May 23, 2019, the Company purchased the Navigators ADC, an aggregate excess of loss reinsurance agreement covering adverse reserve development, from NICO, on behalf of Navigators Insurers. Under the Navigators ADC, the Navigators Insurers paid NICO a reinsurance premium of $91 in exchange for reinsurance coverage of $300 of adverse net loss reserve development that attaches $100 above the Navigators Insurers' existing net loss and allocated loss adjustment reserves as of December 31, 2018 subject to the treaty of $1.816 billion for accidents and losses prior to December 31, 2018.

As of March 31, 2021, the Company has recorded a reinsurance recoverable under the Navigators ADC of $215, as estimated cumulative loss development on the 2018 and prior accident year reserves of $315 exceed the $100 deductible. While the reinsurance recoverable is $215, the Company has also recorded a $124 cumulative deferred gain within other liabilities since, under retroactive reinsurance accounting, ceded losses in excess of the $91 of ceded premium paid must be recognized as a deferred gain. Of the $124 of cumulative ceded losses in excess of ceded premium paid, $6 was recognized as a deferred gain in first quarter 2021 and $29 was recognized as a deferred gain in first quarter 2020. As the Company has ceded $215 of the $300 available limit, there is $85 of remaining limit available as of March 31, 2021.

Group Life, Disability and Accident Products

Rollforward of Liabilities for Unpaid Losses and Loss Adjustment Expenses


	For the three months ended March 31,
	2021		2020
Beginning liabilities for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses, gross	$	8,233	$	8,256
Reinsurance recoverables [1]	237		246
Beginning liabilities for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses, net	7,996		8,010

Provision for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses
Current incurral year	1,325		1,148
Prior year's discount accretion	55		57
Prior incurral year development [2]	(151)		(163)
Total provision for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses [3]	1,229		1,042
Payments
Current incurral year	(350)		(278)
Prior incurral years	(914)		(821)
Total payments	(1,264)		(1,099)
Ending liabilities for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses, net	7,961		7,953
Reinsurance recoverables	247		249
Ending liabilities for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses, gross	$	8,208	$	8,202

[1]Includes a cumulative effect adjustment of $(1) representing an adjustment to the ACL recorded on adoption of accounting guidance for credit losses on January 1, 2020. For further information refer to 2020 10-K, Note 1 - Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies.

[2]Prior incurral year development represents the change in estimated ultimate incurred losses and loss adjustment expenses for prior incurral years on a discounted basis.

[3]Includes unallocated loss adjustment expenses ("ULAE") of $43 and $44 for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively, that are recorded in insurance operating costs and other expenses in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.

Re-estimates of prior incurral years reserves for the three months ended March 31, 2021

Group disability- Prior period reserve estimates decreased by approximately $125 largely driven by group long-term disability claim incidence lower than prior assumptions together with strong recoveries on prior incurral year claims; and by group short-term disability non-COVID-19 claim incidence lower than previously expected.

Group life and accident (including group life premium waiver)- Prior period reserve estimates decreased by approximately $20 largely driven by lower-than-previously expected claim incidence in both group life premium waiver and group accidental death & dismemberment, partially offset by higher than previously estimated 2020 incurral year excess mortality claims on group term life.

Re-estimates of prior incurral years reserves for the three months ended March 31, 2020

Group disability- Prior period reserve estimates decreased by approximately $100 largely driven by group long-term disability claim incidence lower than prior assumptions and strong recoveries on prior incurral year claims.

Group life and accident (including group life premium waiver)- Prior period reserve estimates decreased by approximately $50 largely driven by lower prior year mortality than prior assumptions in group life and lower than previously expected claim incidence in group life premium waiver.

10. RESERVE FOR FUTURE POLICY BENEFITS


Changes in Reserves for Future Policy Benefits[1]
	For the three months ended March 31,
	2021		2020
Beginning liability balance	$	638	$	635
Incurred	37		18
Paid	(26)		(22)
Change in unrealized investment gains and losses	(8)		(2)
Ending liability balance	$	641	$	629
Beginning reinsurance recoverable asset	$	28	$	31
Incurred	18		(1)
Paid	—		—
Ending reinsurance recoverable asset	$	46	$	30

[1] Reserves for future policy benefits includes paid-up life insurance and whole-life policies resulting from conversion from group life policies included within the Group Benefits segment and reserves for run-off structured settlement and terminal funding agreement liabilities which are in the Corporate category.