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Reserve for Property and Liability Insurance Claims and Claims Expense | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2019
Reserve for Property-Liability Insurance Claims and Claims Expense [Abstract] |
Reserve for Property and Liability Insurance Claims and Claims Expense |
Note 8 | Reserve for Property and Casualty Insurance Claims and Claims Expense
The Company establishes reserves for claims and claims expense on reported and unreported claims of insured losses. The Company’s reserving process takes into account known facts and interpretations of circumstances and factors including the Company’s experience with similar cases, actual claims paid, historical trends involving claim payment patterns and pending levels of unpaid claims, loss management programs, product mix and contractual terms, changes in law and regulation, judicial decisions, and economic conditions. In the normal course of business, the Company may also supplement its claims processes by utilizing third party adjusters, appraisers, engineers, inspectors, and other professionals and information sources to assess and settle catastrophe and non-catastrophe related claims. The effects of inflation are implicitly considered in the reserving process. Because reserves are estimates of unpaid portions of losses that have occurred, including incurred but not reported (“IBNR”) losses, the establishment of appropriate reserves, including reserves for catastrophes, Discontinued Lines and Coverages and reinsurance and indemnification recoverables, is an inherently uncertain and complex process. The ultimate cost of losses may vary materially from recorded amounts, which are based on management’s best estimates. The highest degree of uncertainty is associated with reserves for losses incurred in the current reporting period as it contains the greatest proportion of losses that have not been reported or settled. The Company regularly updates its reserve estimates as new information becomes available and as events unfold that may affect the resolution of unsettled claims. Changes in prior year reserve estimates, which may be material, are reported in property and casualty insurance claims and claims expense in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations in the period such changes are determined. Management believes that the reserve for property and casualty insurance claims and claims expense, net of recoverables, is appropriately established in the aggregate and adequate to cover the ultimate net cost of reported and unreported claims arising from losses which had occurred by the date of the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Financial Position based on available facts, technology, laws and regulations. Allstate’s reserves for asbestos claims were $847 million and $866 million, net of recoverables of $389 million and $400 million, as of March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively. Reserves for environmental claims were $167 million and $170 million, net of recoverables of $39 million and $39 million, as of March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively.
Rollforward of the reserve for property and casualty insurance claims and claims expense
|  | Three months ended March 31,
($ in millions) |  | 2019 |  | 2018
Balance as of January 1 |  | $ | 27,423 |  |  | $ | 26,325 |
Less recoverables (1) |  | (7,155 | ) |  | (6,471 | )
Net balance as of January 1 |  | 20,268 |  |  | 19,854 |
Incurred claims and claims expense related to: |  |  |  |
Current year |  | 5,808 |  |  | 5,180 |
Prior years |  | 12 |  |  | (51 | )
Total incurred |  | 5,820 |  |  | 5,129 |
Claims and claims expense paid related to: |  |  |  |
Current year |  | (2,270 | ) |  | (2,240 | )
Prior years |  | (3,294 | ) |  | (3,115 | )
Total paid |  | (5,564 | ) |  | (5,355 | )
Net balance as of March 31 |  | 20,524 |  |  | 19,628 |
Plus recoverables |  | 7,020 |  |  | 6,487 |
Balance as of March 31 |  | $ | 27,544 |  |  | $ | 26,115 |
(1) Recoverables comprises reinsurance and indemnification recoverables. Incurred claims and claims expense represents the sum of paid losses and reserve changes in the period. This expense includes losses from catastrophes of $680 million and $361 million in the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively, net of recoverables. Catastrophes are an inherent risk of the property and casualty insurance business that have contributed to, and will continue to contribute to, material year-to-year fluctuations in the Company’s results of operations and financial position. During the three months ended March 31, 2019, incurred claims and claims expense included $12 million of unfavorable prior year reserve reestimates, decreasing net income. This $12 million unfavorable prior year reserve reestimates included $53 million of unfavorable prior year reserve reestimates related to catastrophes, partially offset by f avorable prior year reserve reestimates excluding catastrophes of $41 million. Favorable prior year reserve reestimates excluding catastrophes is comprised of net decreases in reserves of $55 million, primarily due to continued favorable personal lines auto injury coverage development, offset by net increases of $14 million, related to homeowner, commercial lines and discontinued lines and coverages of $7 million, $5 million and $2 million, respectively. Unfavorable catastrophe loss reestimates of $53 million, net of recoverables, included $46 million of unfavorable reestimates related to ho meowners and $7 million of unfavorable reestimates, primarily related to other personal lines. The unfavorable catastrophe reestimates included $15 million of reinstatement reinsurance premiums incurred during the period related to the 2018 Camp Fire, which primarily impacted homeowners reestimates.

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- Definition Describes the various components of the reserve for property-liability future policy benefits and guaranteed minimum benefits, and for claims and claims adjustment expenses; the significant assumptions for estimating claims losses; causes of significant variances from prior periods (such as catastrophes, asbestos and environmental claims reserve losses); and reconciliations of beginning to ending reserve balances. + References No definition available. + Details
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