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Liability For Unpaid Claims | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2020
Liability For Unpaid Claims [Abstract] |
Liability For Unpaid Claims | 9. Liability for Unpaid Claims The liability for unpaid claims consists primarily of long-term disability claims and is reported in future contract benefits on our Consolidated Balance Sheets. Changes in the liability for unpaid claims (in millions) were as follows:
| For the Nine |
| Months Ended |
| September 30, |
| 2020 |  | 2019 |
Balance as of beginning-of-year | $ | 5,552 |  | $ | 5,335 |
Reinsurance recoverable |  | 152 |  |  | 143 |
Net balance as of beginning-of-year |  | 5,400 |  |  | 5,192 |
Incurred related to: |  |  |  |  |  |
Current year |  | 2,615 |  |  | 2,370 |
Prior years: |  |  |  |  |  |
Interest |  | 116 |  |  | 117 |
All other incurred (1) |  | (157 | ) |  | (203 | )
Total incurred |  | 2,574 |  |  | 2,284 |
Paid related to: |  |  |  |  |  |
Current year |  | (1,184 | ) |  | (1,046 | )
Prior years |  | (1,118 | ) |  | (1,091 | )
Total paid |  | (2,302 | ) |  | (2,137 | )
Net balance as of end-of-period |  | 5,672 |  |  | 5,339 |
Reinsurance recoverable |  | 149 |  |  | 148 |
Balance as of end-of-period | $ | 5,821 |  | $ | 5,487 |
(1)All other incurred is primarily impacted by the level of claim resolutions in the period compared to that which is expected by the reserve assumption. A negative number implies a favorable result where claim resolutions were more favorable than assumed. Our claim resolution rate assumption used in determining reserves is our expectation of the resolution rate we will experience over the long-term life of the block of claims. It will vary from actual experience in any one period, both favorably and unfavorably. The interest rate assumption used for discounting long-term claim reserves is an important part of the reserving process due to the long benefit period for these claims. Interest accrued on prior years’ reserves has been calculated on the opening reserve balance less one-half of the prior years’ incurred claim payments at our average reserve discount rate. Long-term disability benefits may extend for many years, and claim development schedules do not reflect these longer benefit periods. As a result, we use longer term retrospective runoff studies, experience studies and prospective studies to develop our liability estimates.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for liabilities related to future policy benefits and unpaid claims and claim adjustments. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 944 -SubTopic 40 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/subtopic&trid=2560295 + Details
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