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Statutory Financial Information and Dividend Limitations | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Statutory Financial Information and Dividend Limitations [Abstract] |
Statutory Financial Information and Dividend Limitations |
Note 16 | Statutory Financial Information and Dividend Limitations
Allstate’s domestic property and casualty and life insurance subsidiaries prepare their statutory-basis financial statements in conformity with accounting practices prescribed or permitted by the insurance department of the applicable state of domicile. Prescribed statutory accounting practices include a variety of publications of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”), as well as state laws, regulations and general administrative rules. Permitted statutory accounting practices encompass all accounting practices not so prescribed. All states require domiciled insurance companies to prepare statutory-basis financial statements in conformity with the NAIC Accounting Practices and Procedures Manual, subject to any deviations prescribed or permitted by the applicable insurance commissioner and/or director. Statutory accounting practices differ from GAAP primarily since they require charging policy acquisition and certain sales inducement costs to expense as incurred, establishing life insurance reserves based on different actuarial assumptions, and valuing certain investments and establishing deferred taxes on a different basis.
Statutory net income (loss) and capital and surplus of Allstate’s domestic insurance subsidiaries
|  | Net income (loss) |  | Capital and surplus
($ in millions) |  | 2017 |  | 2016 |  | 2015 |  | 2017 |  | 2016
Amounts by major business type: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Property and casualty insurance |  | $ | 3,050 |  |  | $ | 1,520 |  |  | $ | 1,826 |  |  | $ | 14,903 |  |  | $ | 13,436 |
Life insurance, annuities and voluntary accident and health insurance |  | 327 |  |  | 197 |  |  | (56 | ) |  | 3,727 |  |  | 3,383 |
Amount per statutory accounting practices |  | $ | 3,377 |  |  | $ | 1,717 |  |  | $ | 1,770 |  |  | $ | 18,630 |  |  | $ | 16,819 |
Dividend Limitations There are no regulatory restrictions that limit the payment of dividends by the Corporation, except those generally applicable to corporations incorporated in Delaware. Dividends are payable only out of certain components of shareholders’ equity as permitted by Delaware law. However, the ability of the Corporation to pay dividends is dependent on business conditions, income, cash requirements of the Company, receipt of dividends from AIC and other relevant factors. The payment of shareholder dividends by AIC without the prior approval of the Illinois Department of Insurance (“IL DOI”) is limited to formula amounts based on net income and capital and surplus, determined in conformity with statutory accounting practices, as well as the timing and amount of dividends paid in the preceding twelve months. AIC paid dividends of $1.56 billion in 2017. The maximum amount of dividends AIC will be able to pay without prior IL DOI approval at a given point in time during 2018 is $2.87 billion, less dividends paid during the preceding twelve months measured at that point in time. The payment of a dividend in excess of this amount requires 30 days advance written notice to the IL DOI. The dividend is deemed approved, unless the IL DOI disapproves it within the 30 day notice period. Additionally, any dividend must be paid out of unassigned surplus excluding unrealized appreciation from investments, which for AIC totaled $11.04 billion as of December 31, 2017, and cannot result in capital and surplus being less than the minimum amount required by law. Under state insurance laws, insurance companies are required to maintain paid up capital of not less than the minimum capital requirement applicable to the types of insurance they are authorized to write. Insurance companies are also subject to risk-based capital (“RBC”) requirements adopted by state insurance regulators. A company’s “authorized control level RBC” is calculated using various factors applied to certain financial balances and activity. Companies that do not maintain adjusted statutory capital and surplus at a level in excess of the company action level RBC, which is two times authorized control level RBC, are required to take specified actions. Company action level RBC is significantly in excess of the minimum capital requirements. Total adjusted statutory capital and surplus and authorized control level RBC of AIC were $17.70 billion and $2.80 billion, respectively, as of December 31, 2017. Substantially all of the Corporation’s insurance subsidiaries are subsidiaries of and/or reinsure all of their business to AIC, including ALIC. AIC’s subsidiaries are included as a component of AIC’s total statutory capital and surplus. The amount of restricted net assets, as represented by the Corporation’s investment in its insurance subsidiaries, was $26 billion as of December 31, 2017. Intercompany transactions Notification and approval of intercompany lending activities is also required by the IL DOI for transactions that exceed a level that is based on a formula using statutory admitted assets and statutory surplus.

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