Future Policy Benefits and Other Policyholder Liabilities (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2017

Schedule of Future Policy Benefits and Other Policyholder Liabilities

Life insurance liabilities include reserves for death benefits and other policy benefits. As of December 31, 2017 and 2016, future policy benefits and other policyholder liabilities consisted of the following:

	December 31, 2017		December 31, 2016
($ in thousands)
Traditional life insurance	$	1,607,149	$	1,598,071
Immediate fixed annuities		466,723		520,380
Accident and health insurance		1,809,006		1,693,598
Equity indexed annuities		32,601		40,298
Other		1,594,571		1,259,444
Total	$	5,510,050	$	5,111,791