Related Person Transactions

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2017

Related Party Transactions [Abstract]

Related Person Transactions

Related Person Transactions

We have relationships and historical and continuing transactions with Five Star, RMR LLC, RMR Inc., Affiliates Insurance Company, or AIC, and others related to them, including other companies to which RMR LLC provides management services and which have trustees, directors and officers who are also our Trustees or officers. 

Five Star.  We are currently one of Five Star’s largest stockholders. As of March 31, 2017, we owned 4,235,000 of Five Star’s common shares, or approximately 8.5% of Five Star’s outstanding common shares.  Five Star is our largest tenant and the manager of our managed senior living communities. As of March 31, 2017, our Managing Trustees, the controlling shareholders of RMR LLC's parent, beneficially owned, directly and indirectly, 36.7% of Five Star's outstanding common shares. RMR LLC provides management services to both us and Five Star. See Note 10 for further information regarding our relationships, agreements and transactions with Five Star and Note 4 for further information regarding our investment in Five Star.

Our Manager, RMR LLC. See Note 11 for further information regarding our management agreements with RMR LLC.

RMR Inc. RMR LLC is a subsidiary of RMR Inc. and RMR Inc. is the managing member of RMR LLC. The controlling shareholder of RMR Inc., ABP Trust, is owned by our Managing Trustees. As of March 31, 2017, we owned 2,637,408 shares of class A common stock of RMR Inc.  See Note 4 for further information regarding our investment in RMR Inc.

AIC. We, ABP Trust, Five Star and four other companies to which RMR LLC provides management services currently own AIC, an Indiana insurance company, in equal amounts. We and the other AIC shareholders participate in a combined property insurance program arranged and reinsured in part by AIC. As of March 31, 2017 and December 31, 2016, our investment in AIC had a carrying value of $7,366 and $7,116, respectively. These amounts are included in other assets in our condensed consolidated balance sheets. We recognized income related to our investment in AIC, which amounts are presented as equity in earnings of an investee in our condensed consolidated statements of comprehensive income. Our other comprehensive income includes our proportionate part of unrealized gains on securities which are owned by AIC related to our investment in AIC.

For further information about these and other such relationships and certain other related person transactions, please refer to our Annual Report.