Loss And Loss Adjustment Expense Reserves

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2022

Loss And Loss Adjustment Expense Reserves

Loss and Loss Adjustment Expense Reserves

The following table presents the activity in loss and loss adjustment expense reserves:


	Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2022		2021

	(Amounts in thousands)
Gross reserves, beginning of period	$	2,226,430	$	1,991,304
Reinsurance recoverables on unpaid losses, beginning of period	(41,377)		(54,460)
Net reserves, beginning of period	2,185,053		1,936,844
Incurred losses and loss adjustment expenses related to:
Current year	2,386,233		2,005,233
Prior years	49,942		(23,714)
Total incurred losses and loss adjustment expenses	2,436,175		1,981,519
Loss and loss adjustment expense payments related to:
Current year	1,267,535		1,088,285
Prior years	945,371		739,385
Total payments	2,212,906		1,827,670
Net reserves, end of period	2,408,322		2,090,693
Reinsurance recoverables on unpaid losses, end of period	24,412		51,428
Gross reserves, end of period	$	2,432,734	$	2,142,121

During the nine months ended September 30, 2022, inflationary trends have accelerated to their highest level in decades, which has had a significant impact on the cost of auto parts and labor as well as medical expenses for bodily injuries, and supply chain and labor shortage issues have lengthened the time to repair vehicles. Bodily injury costs are also under pressure from social inflation. These factors have increased losses and loss adjustment expenses for the insured events of the current accident year for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 compared to the corresponding period in 2021. The increase in the provision for insured events of prior years during the nine months ended September 30, 2022 of $49.9 million was primarily attributable to higher than estimated losses and loss adjustment expenses in the private passenger automobile line of insurance business. The inflationary pressures and the supply chain and labor shortage issues discussed above were major contributors to the adverse reserve development in the private passenger automobile line of insurance business for the first nine months of 2022. The decrease in the provision for insured events of prior years during the nine months ended September 30, 2021 of $23.7 million was primarily attributable to lower than estimated losses and loss adjustment expenses in the private passenger automobile and homeowners lines of insurance business.

For the nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, the Company recorded catastrophe losses net of reinsurance of approximately $62 million and $85 million, respectively. Catastrophe losses due to the events that occurred during the nine months ended September 30, 2022 totaled approximately $58 million, with no reinsurance benefits used for these losses, resulting primarily from winter storms, rainstorms and hail in Texas and Oklahoma, the impact of Hurricane Ian in Florida which caused $11 million in losses, and winter storms in California. Catastrophe losses due to the events that occurred during the nine months ended September 30, 2021 totaled approximately $91 million, with no reinsurance benefits used for these losses, resulting primarily from the deep freeze and other extreme weather events in Texas and Oklahoma, wildfires and winter storms in California, and the impact of Hurricane Ida in New Jersey and New York. In addition, the Company experienced unfavorable development of approximately $4 million and favorable development of approximately $6 million on prior years' catastrophe losses for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively.