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Assets and Liabilities Held for Sale
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2019
Discontinued Operations and Disposal Groups [Abstract]  
Assets and Liabilities Held for Sale

Note 4. Assets and Liabilities Held for Sale

On November 30, 2018, American Life entered into an Assumption and Indemnity Reinsurance Agreement (“Reinsurance Agreement”) with Unified Life Insurance Company (“Unified”), a Texas domiciled stock insurance company. The Reinsurance Agreement provides that American Life ceded and Unified agreed to reinsure, on an indemnity reinsurance basis, 100% of the liabilities and obligations under substantially all of American Life’s life, annuity and health policies (“Policies”). The Agreement closed on December 10, 2018, as previously disclosed in Midwest’s Current Report on Form 8‑K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on December 12, 2018. The effective date of the Agreement was July 1, 2018.

After the closing of the Reinsurance Agreement, Unified began the process of preparing and delivering certificates of assumption and other materials to policyholders of American Life in order to effect an assumption of the Policies by Unified such that all of American Life’s rights and obligations under the policies arising on and after July 1, 2018 would be completely assumed by Unified without further indemnification or other obligations, except for liabilities, claims and obligations incurred before July 1, 2018. Unified is obligated to indemnify American Life against all liabilities and claims and all of its policy obligations from and after the July 1, 2018.

The consideration paid by Unified to American Life under the Reinsurance Agreement upon closing was $3,500,000 (“Ceding Commission”), subject to minor settlement adjustments. At closing, American Life transferred the Statutory Reserves and Liabilities, as defined in the Reinsurance Agreement, directly related to the policies, to Unified.

The Ceding Commission is being amortized on a straight-line basis over the life of the policies. When the policies are converted to assumptive, meaning American Life has no liability exposure for those policies, the remaining Ceding Commission will be recognized in our income statement.

As of September 30, 2019, 73% of the indemnity policies were converted to assumptive policies thereby releasing American Life from its legal obligations related to those policies.

Our balance sheet was required to be restated for all periods shown with the assets and liabilities which were ceded by American Life to Unified into separate line items as assets and liabilities held for sale. The table below summarizes the assets and liabilities that are included in discontinued operations as of September 30, 2019 and as of December 31, 2018:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As of September 30, 

 

As of December 31, 

 

    

2019

    

2018

Carrying amounts of major classes of assets included as part of discontinued operations:

 

 

  

 

 

  

Policy loans

 

$

79,057

 

$

366,849

Reinsurance recoverables

 

 

7,986,308

 

 

20,359,326

Premiums receivable

 

 

52,690

 

 

210,896

Total assets held for sale in the Consolidated Balance Sheet

 

$

8,118,055

 

$

20,937,071

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carrying amounts of major classes of liabilities included as part of discontinued operations:

 

 

  

 

 

  

Benefit reserves

 

$

2,956,701

 

$

9,799,834

Policy claims

 

 

133,203

 

 

127,666

Deposit-type contracts

 

 

5,004,273

 

 

11,050,139

Advance premiums

 

 

10,076

 

 

21,699

Accounts payable and accrued expenses

 

 

12,072

 

 

53,395

Total liabilities held for sale in the Consolidated Balance Sheet

 

$

8,116,325

 

$

21,052,733

 

Our income statement was also required to be restated for all periods shown breaking out the net income between continuing operations and discontinued operations. There were no items in 2019 that were reclassified as discontinued operations, therefore, the table below summarizes only the losses that are included in discontinued operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three months ended September 30, 

 

Nine months ended September 30, 

 

    

2018

    

2018

Major line items constituting pretax loss of discontinued operations:

 

 

  

 

 

  

Premiums

 

$

440,891

 

$

1,375,419

Death and other benefits

 

 

(74,538)

 

 

(485,651)

Interest credited

 

 

(106,728)

 

 

(311,847)

Increase in benefit reserves

 

 

(164,724)

 

 

(234,246)

Amortization of deferred acquisition costs

 

 

(58,822)

 

 

(261,735)

Other operating expenses

 

 

(25,585)

 

 

(97,436)

Loss on discontinued operations

 

$

10,494

 

$

(15,496)