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Summary of Reserve for Title Claim Losses
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2024
Insurance [Abstract]  
Summary of Reserve for Title Claim Losses Summary of Reserve for Title Claim Losses
 A summary of the reserve for title claim losses follows:
 Year Ended December 31,
 202420232022
 (Dollars in millions)
Beginning balance$1,770 $1,810 $1,883 
Change in insurance recoverable(10)15 (128)
Claim loss provision related to:
Current year232 207 308 
Prior years— — — 
Total title claim loss provision232 207 308 
Claims paid, net of recoupments related to:
Current year(25)(22)(21)
Prior years(254)(240)(232)
Total title claims paid, net of recoupments(279)(262)(253)
Ending balance of claim loss reserve for title insurance$1,713 $1,770 $1,810 
Provision for title insurance claim losses as a percentage of title insurance premiums4.5 %4.5 %4.5 %
Several lawsuits were filed by various parties against Chicago Title Company and Chicago Title Insurance Company as its principal (collectively, the “Named Companies”) by plaintiffs claiming they were investors who were solicited by Gina Champion-Cain through her former company, ANI Development LLC (“ANI”), or other affiliates to provide funds placed in an escrow account that purportedly were to be used for high-interest, short-term loans to parties seeking to acquire California alcoholic beverage licenses. Plaintiffs further alleged that employees of Chicago Title Company assisted Ms. Champion-Cain and her entities in diverting the funds placed into an escrow account maintained by Chicago Title Company into which some of the plaintiffs’ funds were deposited.
In connection with the alcoholic beverage license scheme, the SEC filed a civil enforcement proceeding asserting claims for securities fraud against Champion-Cain and ANI in a lawsuit styled, Securities and Exchange Commission v. Gina Champion-Cain and ANI Development, LLC, pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. The receiver, who was appointed by the court to preserve the assets of the defendant affiliated entities, then filed a lawsuit in San Diego County Superior Court against the Named Companies seeking damages in a lawsuit styled, Krista Freitag v. Chicago Title Co. and Chicago Title Ins. Co. The Named Companies reached a global settlement with the receiver and several other investor claimants and jointly sought court approval of the global settlement and entry of an order barring any claims against the Named Companies related to the alcoholic beverage license scheme. On November 23, 2022, the federal court overruled any objections by non-joining investors and entered an order approving the global settlement barring further claims against the Named Companies (“Settlement and Bar Order”). After her receipt of the settlement funds, the receiver dismissed the lawsuit against the Named Companies.
Some of the non-joining investor claimants who objected to entry of the Settlement and Bar Order appealed the decision to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit by (Cases 22-56206, 22-56208, and 23-55083). On February 20, 2025, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court's Settlement and Bar Order, barring all ongoing and future litigation against CTC stemming from the scheme operated by Ms. Champion-Cain. If appellants wish to seek further review of the Ninth Circuit's decision, they have a limited time to file a petition for rehearing or rehearing en banc, and/or a petition for review with the U.S. Supreme Court. Once the appellate decision is final, the remaining lawsuits pending in the Superior Court of San Diego County for the State of California involving claimants/investors who objected to CTC's settlement with the receiver are expected to be dismissed as to CTC.
Chicago Title Company has also resolved a number of other pre-suit claims and previously-disclosed lawsuits from both individual and groups of alleged investors under confidential terms. Based on the facts and circumstances of the remaining claims, including the settlements already reached, we have recorded reserves included in our reserve for title claim losses, which we believe are adequate to cover losses related to this matter, and believe that our reserves for title claim losses are adequate.
We continually update loss reserve estimates as new information becomes known, new loss patterns emerge or as other contributing factors are considered and incorporated into the analysis of reserve for claim losses. Estimating future title loss
payments is difficult because of the complex nature of title claims, the long periods of time over which claims are paid, significantly varying dollar amounts of individual claims and other factors.
Due to the uncertainty inherent in the process and to the judgment used by management, the ultimate liability may be greater or less than our current reserves. If actual claims loss development varies from what is currently expected and is not offset by other factors, it is possible that additional reserve adjustments may be required in future periods in order to maintain our recorded reserve within a reasonable range of our actuary's central estimate.
Regulation and Equity
Regulation
Title
Our insurance subsidiaries, including title insurers, underwritten title companies and insurance agencies, are subject to extensive regulation under applicable state laws. Each of the insurance underwriters is subject to a holding company act in its state of domicile that regulates, among other matters, the ability to pay dividends and enter into transactions with affiliates. The laws of most states in which we transact business establish supervisory agencies with broad administrative powers relating to issuing and revoking licenses to transact business, regulating trade practices, licensing agents, approving policy forms,
accounting practices, financial practices, establishing reserve and capital and surplus as regards policyholders (“capital and surplus”) requirements, defining suitable investments for reserves and capital and surplus and approving rate schedules. The process of state regulation of changes in rates ranges from states that set rates, to states where individual companies or associations of companies prepare rate filings that are submitted for approval, to a few states in which rate changes do not need to be filed for approval.
Since we are regulated by both state and federal governments and the applicable insurance laws and regulations are constantly subject to change, it is not possible to predict the potential effects on our insurance operations, particularly the Title segment, of any laws or regulations that may become more restrictive in the future or if new restrictive laws will be enacted.
Statutory-basis financial statements are prepared in accordance with accounting practices prescribed or permitted by the various state insurance regulatory authorities. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Accounting Practices and Procedures manual (“NAIC SAP”) has been adopted as a component of prescribed or permitted practices by each of the states that regulate us. Each of our states of domicile for our title insurance underwriter subsidiaries have adopted a material prescribed accounting practice that differs from that found in NAIC SAP. Specifically, in both years, the timing of amounts released from the statutory unearned premium reserve under NAIC SAP differs from the states' required practice. Statutory surplus at December 31, 2024 and 2023 was lower by approximately $33 million and $34 million than if we had reported such amounts in accordance with NAIC SAP.
Pursuant to statutory accounting requirements of the various states in which our insurers are domiciled, these insurers must defer a portion of premiums earned as an unearned premium reserve for the protection of policyholders and must maintain qualified assets in an amount equal to the statutory requirements. The level of unearned premium reserve required to be maintained at any time is determined by statutory formula based upon either the age, number of policies and dollar amount of policy liabilities underwritten, or the age and dollar amount of statutory premiums written. As of December 31, 2024, the combined statutory unearned premium reserve required and reported for our title insurers was $1,608 million. In addition to statutory unearned premium reserves, each of our insurers maintains reserves for known claims and surplus funds for policyholder protection and business operations.
Each of our insurance subsidiaries is regulated by the insurance regulatory authority in its respective state of domicile, as well as that of each state in which it is licensed. The insurance commissioners of their respective states of domicile are the primary regulators of our title insurance subsidiaries. Each of the insurers is subject to periodic regulatory financial examination by regulatory authorities.
Our insurance subsidiaries are subject to regulations that restrict their ability to pay dividends or make other distributions of cash or property to their immediate parent company without prior approval from the Department of Insurance of their respective states of domicile. As of December 31, 2024, $1,141 million of our net assets are restricted from dividend payments without prior approval from the Departments of Insurance. During 2025, our title insurers can pay or make distributions to us of approximately $498 million, without prior approval.
The combined statutory capital and surplus of our title insurers was approximately $1,223 million and $1,225 million as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. The combined statutory net earnings of our title insurance subsidiaries were $587 million, $503 million, and $778 million for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
As a condition to continued authority to underwrite policies in the states in which our insurers conduct their business, the insurers are required to pay certain fees and file information regarding their officers, directors and financial condition. In addition, our escrow and trust business is subject to regulation by various state banking authorities.
 Pursuant to statutory requirements of the various states in which our insurers are domiciled, such insurers must maintain certain levels of minimum capital and surplus. Required levels of minimum capital and surplus are not significant to the insurers individually or in the aggregate. Each of our insurers has complied with the minimum statutory requirements as of December 31, 2024.
 Our underwritten title companies, primarily those domiciled in California, are also subject to certain regulation by insurance regulatory or banking authorities relating to their net worth and working capital. Minimum net worth and working capital requirements for each underwritten title company is less than $1 million. These companies were in compliance with their respective minimum net worth and working capital requirements at December 31, 2024.
There are no restrictions on our retained earnings regarding our ability to pay dividends to shareholders although there are limits on the ability of certain subsidiaries to pay dividends to us, as described above.
F&G
Through our majority owned F&G subsidiary, our insurance subsidiaries, FGL Insurance, FGL NY Insurance, Raven Re and Corbeau Re file financial statements with state insurance regulatory authorities and, except for Raven Re, with the National
Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) that are prepared in accordance with Statutory Accounting Principles (“SAP”) prescribed or permitted by such authorities, which may vary materially from GAAP. Prescribed SAP includes the Accounting Practices and Procedures Manual of the NAIC as well as state laws, regulations and administrative rules. Permitted SAP encompasses all accounting practices not so prescribed but approved by state regulators. The principal differences between SAP financial statements and financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP are that SAP financial statements do not reflect VOBA, DAC, and DSI, some bond portfolios may be carried at amortized cost, assets and liabilities are presented net of reinsurance, contractholder liabilities are generally valued using more conservative assumptions and certain assets are non-admitted. Accordingly, SAP operating results and SAP capital and surplus may differ substantially from amounts reported in the GAAP basis financial statements for comparable items.
F&G's non-U.S. insurance subsidiaries, F&G Life Re (Bermuda) and F&G Cayman Re (Cayman Islands) file financial statements with their respective regulators.
In our F&G segment, our principal insurance subsidiaries' statutory financial statements are based on a December 31 year end. Statutory net income and statutory capital and surplus of our wholly owned U.S. regulated insurance subsidiaries were as follows:
Subsidiary (state of domicile) (a)
FGL Insurance (IA) FGL NY Insurance (NY)Raven Re (VT)Corbeau Re (VT)
Statutory Net income (loss):(In millions)
Year ended December 31, 2024$150 $$54 $(458)
Year ended December 31, 2023(462)60 (644)
Year ended December 31, 2022(243)(15)(111)— 
Statutory Capital and Surplus:
December 31, 2024$1,654 $97 $168 $178 
December 31, 20232,009 86 140 171 
(a) FGL NY Insurance, Raven Re and Corbeau Re are subsidiaries of FGL Insurance, and the columns should not be added together. Corbeau Re was incorporated on September 1, 2023.
Regulation - U.S. Companies
FGL Insurance, FGL NY Insurance, Raven Re and Corbeau Re’s respective statutory capital and surplus satisfy the applicable minimum regulatory requirements.
To enhance the regulation of insurers’ solvency, the NAIC adopted a model law to implement risk-based capital ("RBC") requirements for life, health and property and casualty insurance companies. All states have adopted the NAIC’s model law or a substantially similar law. RBC is used to evaluate the adequacy of capital and surplus maintained by an insurance company in relation to risks associated with: (i) asset risk, (ii) insurance risk, (iii) interest rate risk, and (iv) business risk. As of the most recent annual statutory financial statements filed with insurance regulators, the RBC ratios for each of our U.S Insurance Companies exceeded the minimum RBC requirements.
Dividends
The insurance laws of Iowa and New York regulate the amount of dividends that may be paid in any year by FGL Insurance and FGL NY Insurance, respectively.
FGL Insurance dividends are paid as declared by its Board of Directors. Pursuant to Iowa insurance law, any proposed payment of a dividend is classified as an "extraordinary dividend" if it, together with the aggregate fair market value of other dividends or distributions made during the preceding twelve months, exceeds the greater of (i) 10% of capital and surplus as of the preceding December 31 or (ii) net gain from operations before realized capital gains or losses for twelve month period ending December 31 of the preceding year. No extraordinary dividends may be paid without prior approval of the IID. In addition, no ordinary dividends may be paid except from the earned profits arising from FGL Insurance's business, which does not include contributed capital or contributed surplus.
FGL Insurance did not pay dividends to its parent, Fidelity & Guaranty Life Holdings, Inc. ("FGLH"), for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022. Pursuant to the limitations described above, it is estimated that FGL Insurance's maximum ordinary dividend capacity for 2025 is $0.
Each year, FGL NY Insurance may pay a certain limited amount of ordinary dividends or other distributions without being required to obtain the prior consent of the New York State Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”). However, to pay any
dividends or distributions in a calendar year immediately following a calendar year in which the FGL NY's net gain from operations, not including realized capital gains, was negative, approval from the NY Superintendent is required.
FGL NY Insurance has historically not paid dividends. Based on the limitations described above, it's estimated that the maximum amount of ordinary dividends FGL NY Insurance will be permitted to distribute during 2025 is approximately $10 million.
Raven Re and Corbeau Re dividends are paid as declared by their Board of Directors. Under the laws of the State of Vermont, no captive insurance company may pay a dividend out of, or other distribution with respect to, capital or surplus, without prior approval. Based on the limitations described above, no dividends may be paid in 2025 by either Raven Re or Corbeau Re without prior regulatory approval.

Prescribed and permitted practices
FGL Insurance - FGL Insurance applies Iowa-prescribed accounting practices prescribed by Iowa Administrative Code (" IAC ") Chapter 97, “Accounting for Certain Derivative Instruments Used to Hedge the Growth in Interest Credited for Indexed Insurance Products and Accounting for the Indexed Insurance Products Reserve”, for its indexed annuities and IUL products. Under these alternative accounting practices, the equity option derivative instruments that hedge the growth in interest credited on index products are accounted for at amortized cost with the corresponding amortization recorded as a decrease to net investment income and indexed annuity reserves are calculated based on Standard Valuation Law and Actuarial Guideline XXXV assuming the market value of the equity options associated with the current index term is zero regardless of the observable market value for such options.
In addition, based on a permitted practice received from the IID, FGL Insurance carries one of its limited partnership interests which qualifies for accounting under SSAP No. 48, “Investments in Joint Ventures, Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies”, on a net asset value per share basis. This is a departure from SSAP No. 48 which requires such investments to be carried based on the investees underlying GAAP equity (prior to any impairment considerations). This limited partnership investment was redeemed as of December 31, 2024. In addition, the financial statements of Raven Re and Corbeau Re include certain permitted practices approved by the Vermont Department of Financial Regulations. Without these permitted practices, the carry value of these two entities would be zero.
The prescribed and permitted practices resulted in increases to statutory capital and surplus of $454 million and $194 million at December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
FGL Insurance’s statutory carrying value of Raven Re reflects the effect of permitted practices Raven Re received to treat the available amount of a letter of credit as an admitted asset, which increased Raven Re’s statutory capital and surplus by $175 million and $200 million at December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. In addition, FGL Insurance’s statutory carrying value of Corbeau Re reflects the effect of permitted practices Corbeau Re received to treat the excess of loss as an admitted asset, which increased Corbeau Re’s statutory capital and surplus by $1,230 million and $765 million at December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Refer to Note O - F&G Reinsurance for a discussion of the XOL and letter of credit.
Raven Re - Raven Re is also permitted to follow Iowa prescribed statutory accounting practice for its reserves on reinsurance assumed from FGL Insurance and also has approval to include as an admitted asset the value of a letter of credit serving as collateral for reinsurance credit taken by FGL Insurance. Without such permitted statutory accounting practices, Raven Re’s statutory capital and surplus (deficit) would be $(13) million and $(89) million as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively, and its risk-based capital would fall below the minimum regulatory requirements. The letter of credit facility is collateralized by NAIC 1 rated debt securities. If the permitted practice was revoked, the letter of credit could be replaced by the collateral assets with Nomura’s consent (refer to discussion of letter of credit in Note O F&G Reinsurance). FGL Insurance’s statutory carrying value of Raven Re was $168 million and $140 million at December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
Corbeau Re - Corbeau Re has four permitted practices pursuant to Vermont Statute, Title 8, Chapter 141 – (8 V.S.A. § 6048k(a)(2), whereby the Vermont Department authorizes the Company to (i) account for the amount equal to the excess of loss amount (“XOL Asset”) as an asset on its statutory financial statements; (ii) calculate the reserves with respect to the Retirement Pro Contracts in accordance with the following reserving methodology: the reserves are calculated as the present value of reinsured benefits when account value equals zero less the present value of reinsurance premiums from the winning integrated stream, floored at zero and capped as necessary to keep the net statutory reserve at the net cash surrender value. For benefits associated with all other contracts (“the GMWB Riders”), the reserves are calculated as the statutory reserves for the entire contract (i.e., the base contracts plus the GMWB Riders) minus the statutory reserves for the base contracts only (“Reserve Calculation Permitted Practice”); (iii) calculate its company action level risk-based capital as defined in Section 8301(13)(A) and, calculated using the risk-based capital factors and formulas prescribed by the NAIC, applying a factor of 0.62% to the
XOL Asset Value; and (iv) annually perform a total company solvency analysis in lieu of cash flow testing and actuarial opinion and memorandum under Section 2010-2 of the Vermont Administrative Code. In addition, Corbeau Re assumes reserves that are equal to the reserves ceded by FGL Insurance which includes application of IAC Insurance 191, Chapter 97, "Accounting for Certain Derivative Instruments Used to Hedge the Growth in Interest Credited for Indexed Insurance Products and Accounting for the Indexed Insurance Products Reserve". Without such permitted statutory accounting practices, the Company’s statutory capital and surplus (deficit) would be $(1,052) million and $(594) million as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively, and its risk-based capital would fall below the minimum regulatory requirements. FGL Insurance’s statutory carrying value of Corbeau Re was $178 million and $171 million at December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
FGL NY Insurance - As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, FGL NY Insurance did not follow any prescribed or permitted statutory accounting practices that differ from the NAIC's statutory accounting practices.
Non-U.S. Companies
F&G's non-U.S. insurance subsidiaries, F&G Cayman Re and F&G Life Re, file financial statements with their respective regulators. For the annual period ended December 31, 2023, F&G Cayman Re began to file financial statements that are prepared in accordance with SAP prescribed or permitted by such authorities, which may vary materially from GAAP. Accordingly, SAP operating results and SAP capital and surplus may differ substantially from amounts reported in the GAAP basis financial statements for comparable items.
F&G Cayman Re has two permitted practices which have been approved by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (“CIMA”). F&G Cayman Re has a permitted practice approved by CIMA to include, as an admitted asset, the value of the letters of credit (“LOCs”) acquired to support reinsurance transactions. Also, F&G Cayman Re has a permitted practice, approved by CIMA, for PRT reinsurance transactions to use U.S. statutory book value adjusted for best estimate reserve calculations (consistent with GAAP prior to ASU 2018-12, Financial Services-Insurance (Topic 944), Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Long-Duration Contracts). These reserve calculations will be subject to annual assumption reviews consistent with other GAAP liability balances. If F&G Cayman Re had not been permitted to calculate PRT assumed reserves using best estimate reserve calculations or include the value of the LOCs as an admitted asset, statutory surplus would be $(64) million and $102 million as of December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively. Without such permitted statutory accounting practices, F&G Cayman Re’s risk-based capital would fall below the minimum regulatory requirements as of December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023.
F&G Life Re files financial statements based on GAAP.
Net income and capital and surplus of our wholly owned Cayman Islands and Bermuda regulated insurance subsidiaries under SAP and GAAP, respectively, were as follows:
Subsidiary (country of domicile)
F&G Cayman Re (Cayman Islands)F&G Life Re (Bermuda)
Statutory Net income (loss):(In millions)
Year ended December 31, 2024
$(11)$139 
Year ended December 31, 2023
133 151 
Year ended December 31, 2022
71 (339)
Statutory Capital and Surplus (Deficit):
December 31, 2024
$734 $123 
December 31, 2023
543 11 
Regulation - Bermuda
F&G Life Re is a Bermuda exempted company incorporated under the Companies Act 1981, as amended (the “Bermuda Companies Act”) and registered as a Class E insurer under the Insurance Act 1978, as amended, and its related regulations (the “Bermuda Insurance Act”). F&G Life Re is regulated by the Bermuda Monetary Authority (“BMA”).
In addition to the requirements under the Bermuda Companies Act (as discussed below), the Bermuda Insurance Act limits the maximum amount of annual dividends and distributions that may be paid or distributed by F&G Life Re without prior regulatory approval. F&G Life Re is prohibited from declaring or paying a dividend if it fails to meet its minimum solvency margin, or ECR, or if the declaration or payment of such dividend would cause such breach. If F&G Life Re were to fail to meet its minimum solvency margin on the last day of any financial year, it would be prohibited from declaring or paying any dividends during the next financial year without the approval of the BMA. In addition, as a Class E insurer, F&G Life Re must not declare or pay a dividend to any person other than a policyholder unless the value of the assets of such insurer, as certified by the insurer’s approved actuary, exceeds its liabilities (as so certified) by the greater of its margin of solvency or ECR. In the
event a dividend complies with the above, F&G Life Re must ensure the amount of any such dividend does not exceed that excess.
Furthermore, as a Class E insurer, F&G Life Re must not declare or pay a dividend in any financial year which would exceed 25% of its total statutory capital and surplus, as set out in its previous year’s Bermuda statutory financial statements, unless at least seven days before payment of such dividend F&G Life Re files with the BMA an affidavit signed by at least two directors of F&G Life Re and its principal representative under the Bermuda Insurance Act stating that, in the opinion of those signing, declaration of such dividend has not caused the insurer to fail to meet its relevant margins. The Bermuda Companies Act also limits F&G Life Re’s ability to pay dividends and make distributions to its shareholders. F&G Life Re is not permitted to declare or pay a dividend, or make a distribution out of its contributed surplus, if it is, or would after the payment be, unable to pay its liabilities as they become due or if the realizable value of its assets would be less than its liabilities.
F&G Life Re’s ability to pay dividends in 2025 is subject to the limitations described above.
Regulation - Cayman Islands
F&G Cayman Re is a Cayman Islands exempted company incorporated under the Companies Act, as amended (2023 Revision) and licensed as a Class D insurer in the Cayman Islands under the Insurance Act, 2010 as amended and its related regulation (the “Cayman Islands Insurance Act”). F&G Cayman Re is regulated by CIMA.
F&G Cayman Re dividends are paid as declared by its Board of Directors. The dividends will be in accordance with CIMA regulatory requirements and contractual obligations and any dividends require approval by CIMA. F&G Cayman Re can only request approval for dividends if (i) the ending capital, including considerations for future business plans, will maintain a surplus over the CIMA approved and permitted target modified RBC, and (ii) contractual language pursuant to the PRT reinsurance agreement requiring a US RBC above specified target is met. As of the most recent annual financial statement filed with CIMA, the RBC ratios for F&G Cayman Re exceeded these minimum requirements. Pursuant to the limitations described above, no dividends may be paid in 2025 by F&G Cayman Re without prior regulatory approval.
The prescribed and permitted statutory accounting practices have no impact on our audited Consolidated Financial Statements, which are prepared in accordance with GAAP.
Equity
On August 3, 2021, our Board of Directors approved the 2021 Repurchase Program under which we may purchase up to 25 million shares of our FNF common stock through July 31, 2024 (the "2021 Repurchase Program"). On July 31, 2024, our Board of Directors approved a new three-year stock repurchase program effective July 31, 2024 (the "2024 Repurchase Program") under which we are authorized to purchase up to 25 million shares of our FNF common stock through July 31, 2027. We may make repurchases from time to time in the open market, in block purchases or in privately negotiated transactions, depending on market conditions and other factors. During the year ended December 31, 2023, we repurchased a total of 100,000 FNF common shares for an aggregate of $4 million or an average of $38.45 per share under the 2021 Repurchase Program. During the year ended December 31, 2024, we did not repurchase any FNF common stock under the 2021 Repurchase Program or the 2024 Repurchase Program. Subsequent to December 31, 2024 and through market close on February 21, 2025, we did not repurchase any FNF common stock under the 2024 Repurchase Program.