Unpaid Loss and Loss Adjustment Expense

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2024

The following table presents the activity in the liability for unpaid loss and loss adjustment expense ("LAE") for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023 ($ in millions):


	March 31,
	2024		2023
Unpaid loss and LAE at beginning of period	$	262.3	$	256.2
Less: Reinsurance recoverable at beginning of period (1)	120.2		124.6
Net unpaid loss and LAE at beginning of period	142.1		131.6
Add: Incurred loss and LAE, net of reinsurance, related to:
Current year	72.4		57.9
Prior years	(6.5)		5.7
Total incurred	65.9		63.6
Deduct: Paid loss and LAE, net of reinsurance, related to:
Current year	33.7		26.9
Prior years	35.1		39.5
Total paid	68.8		66.4

Unpaid loss and LAE, net of reinsurance recoverable, at end of period	139.2		128.8
Reinsurance recoverable at end of period (1)	124.8		116.4
Unpaid loss and LAE, gross of reinsurance recoverable, at end of period	$	264.0	$	245.2

(1) Reinsurance recoverable in this table includes only ceded unpaid loss and LAE.

Unpaid loss and LAE includes anticipated salvage and subrogation recoverable.

Considerable variability is inherent in the estimate of the reserve for losses and LAE. Although management believes the liability recorded for losses and LAE is adequate, the variability inherent in this estimate could result in changes to the ultimate liability, which may be material to stockholders' equity. Additional variability exists due to accident year allocations of ceded amounts in accordance with the reinsurance agreements, which is not expected to result in any changes to the ultimate liability. Other factors that can impact loss reserve development may also include trends in general economic conditions, including the effects of inflation. The Company had favorable development on net loss and LAE reserves of $6.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024, and unfavorable development on net loss and LAE reserves of $5.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2023. No additional premiums or returned premiums have been accrued as a result of prior year effects.

In the ordinary course of business, the Company cedes losses and LAE to other reinsurance companies. These arrangements reduce the net loss potentially arising from large or catastrophic risks. Certain of these arrangements consist of excess of loss and catastrophe contracts, which protect against losses exceeding stipulated amounts. The ceding of risk through reinsurance does not relieve the Company from its obligations to policyholders. The Company remains liable with respect to losses and LAE ceded in the event that any reinsurer does not meet obligations assumed under the reinsurance agreements. The Company does not have any significant unsecured aggregate recoverable for losses, paid and unpaid including Incurred But Not Reported ("IBNR"), loss adjustment expenses, and unearned premium with any individual reinsurer.

The Company maintained proportional reinsurance contracts which cover all of the Company's products and geographies, and transferred, or “ceded,” a specified percentage of the premium to reinsurers ("Proportional Reinsurance Contracts"). In exchange, these reinsurers paid a ceding commission for every dollar ceded, in addition to funding all of the corresponding claims at the same specified percentage as applied to premium. The Company also opted to manage the remaining percentage of the business with alternative forms of reinsurance through non-proportional reinsurance contracts ("Non-Proportional Reinsurance Contracts").

The Company maintained proportional reinsurance contracts which provided 55% protection on covered risks effective July 1, 2022. In addition, the Company purchased a reinsurance program to protect against catastrophe risk in the U.S that exceed $80,000,000 in losses effective July 1, 2022, and expired on June 30, 2023. Other non-proportional reinsurance contracts were renewed with terms similar to the expired contracts. The proportional reinsurance and other non-proportional reinsurance contracts expired on June 30, 2023.

Metromile entered into a Quota Share reinsurance agreement effective January 1, 2022 and expired on June 30, 2023. Under the terms of the agreement, the Company ceded 30% of premiums and losses to reinsurers.

Effective July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024, the Company agreed to the terms of a reinsurance program which includes Whole Account Quota Share Reinsurance Contracts by and among the Company, Lemonade Insurance Company ("LIC"), Metromile Insurance Company and Lemonade Insurance N.V. ("Lemonade Insurance"), and each of Hannover Ruck SE, MAPFRE Re, and Swiss Reinsurance America Corporation (collectively referred to as “Reinsurers”) ("Reinsurance Program"). Under the Reinsurance Program, which covers all products and geographies, the Company transfers, or "cedes," a share of premium to the Reinsurers. In exchange, these Reinsurers pay the Company a ceding commission on all premiums ceded to the Reinsurers, in addition to funding the corresponding claims, subject to certain limitations, including but not limited to, the exclusion of hurricane losses, and a limit of $5,000,000 per occurrence for non-hurricane catastrophe losses. The overall share of proportional reinsurance under the Reinsurance Program is approximately 55% of premium. The Per Risk Cap across the contracts is $750,000. Additionally, the contracts are subject to loss ratio caps and variable ceding commission levels, which align the Company's interests with those of its Reinsurers, and is settled on a funds-withheld basis.

In addition, LIC and Lemonade Insurance agreed to the terms of a Property Per Risk Excess of Loss Reinsurance Contract with a panel of reinsurance companies (the "PPR Contract"), and LIC agreed to the terms of an Automatic Facultative Property Per Risk Excess of Loss Reinsurance Contract with Arch Re (the "Automatic Facultative PPR Contract"), each effective from July 1, 2023 until June 30, 2024. Under the PPR Contract, claims in excess of $750,000 are 100% ceded up to a maximum recovery of $2,250,000, subject to certain limitations. Under the Automatic Facultative PPR Contract, claims in excess of $3,000,000 are 100% ceded with a potential recovery of at least $10,000,000, subject to certain limitations.

The Company also purchased a Excess of Loss ("XOL") Reinsurance Contract through a captive in Bermuda in which the Company has variable interest, primarily to cover catastrophe risk over the initial $50,000,000 limit for each loss occurrence, and further subject to a limit of $80,000,000 for each loss occurrence and in aggregate, primarily on property and auto business underwritten by LIC. This XOL reinsurance contract became effective July 1, 2023 and will expire on July 1, 2024. The Company is also exposed to some risks from MIC ceded through the Quota Share ("QS") Reinsurance Contract which is retained in a captive subsidiary, Lemonade Re SPC in the Cayman Islands. This QS reinsurance contract became effective July 1, 2023 and shall remain in force for an indefinite period until terminated by either party. Through our captives, we are exposed to the risk of natural catastrophe events and other covered risks under the reinsurance contracts from assumed risks from policies underwritten by both LIC and MIC.