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Policyholders' Liabilities (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2017

Liability for Future Policy Benefits and Unpaid Claims and Claims Adjustment Expense [Abstract]

Schedule of Liability for Future Policy Benefits, by Product Segment

Policyholders’ account balances at December 31 for the years indicated are as follows:

	2017				2016
	(in millions)
Individual annuities	$	41,449			$	40,338
Group annuities	28,152				28,350
Guaranteed investment contracts and guaranteed interest accounts	14,002				14,528
Funding agreements	4,631				4,794
Interest-sensitive life contracts	36,879				34,452
Dividend accumulation and other	23,076				22,743
Total policyholders’ account balances	$	148,189			$	145,205

Future policy benefits at December 31 for the years indicated are as follows:

	2017				2016
	(in millions)
Life insurance	$	172,586			$	161,406
Individual and group annuities and supplementary contracts	67,090				63,486
Other contract liabilities	14,849				13,173
Subtotal future policy benefits excluding unpaid claims and claim settlement expenses	254,525				238,065
Unpaid claims and claim settlement expenses	2,792				2,843
Total future policy benefits	$	257,317			$	240,908

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The entire disclosure for the present values of future benefits to be paid to or on behalf of policyholders and related expenses less the present value of future net premiums using assumptions such as estimates of expected investment yields, mortality, morbidity, terminations and expenses, applicable at the time the insurance contracts are made and unpaid claim costs relating to insurance contracts including estimates of costs relating to incurred but not reported claims based on the estimated ultimate cost of settling the claims (including effects of inflation and other societal and economic factors), using past experience adjusted for current trends and any other factors that would modify past experience by element such as business segment, country and interest rate range.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 944
-SubTopic 210
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SX 210.7-03(13))
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6879938&loc=d3e572229-122910

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