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Nature of Operations and Basis of Presentation | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2024
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract] |
Nature of Operations and Basis of Presentation | Nature of Operations and Basis of Presentation Nature of Operations Lincoln National Corporation and its subsidiaries (“LNC” or the “Company,” which also may be referred to as “we,” “our” or “us”) operate multiple insurance businesses through four business segments: Annuities, Life Insurance, Group Protection and Retirement Plan Services. In addition, we include financial data for operations that are not directly related to our business segments in Other Operations. The collective group of businesses uses “Lincoln Financial Group” as its marketing identity. Through our business segments, we sell a wide range of wealth accumulation, wealth protection, group protection and retirement income products and solutions. These products primarily include variable annuities, fixed annuities (including indexed), registered index-linked annuities (“RILA”), universal life insurance (“UL”), variable universal life insurance (“VUL”), linked-benefit UL and VUL, indexed universal life insurance (“IUL”), term life insurance, group life, disability and dental and employer-sponsored retirement plans and services. For more information on our segments and the products and solutions we provide, see Note 16. Basis of Presentation The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with United States of America generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and with the instructions for the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, including Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and notes required by GAAP for complete financial statements. The information contained in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023 (“2023 Form 10-K”), should be read in connection with the reading of these interim unaudited consolidated financial statements. Certain GAAP policies, which significantly affect the determination of financial condition, results of operations and cash flows, are summarized in our 2023 Form 10-K. In the opinion of management, these statements include all normal recurring adjustments necessary for a fair presentation of the Company’s results. Interim results for the three months ended March 31, 2024, are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the full year ending December 31, 2024. All material inter-company accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. Certain amounts reported in prior periods’ consolidated financial statements have been reclassified to conform to the presentation adopted in the current period. We present disaggregated disclosures in the Notes below for long-duration insurance balances, applying the level of aggregation by reportable segment as follows:
Reportable Segment | Level of Aggregation
Annuities | Variable Annuities
| Fixed Annuities
| Payout Annuities
Life Insurance | Traditional Life
| UL and Other
Group Protection | Group Protection
Retirement Plan Services | Retirement Plan Services
The variable annuities level of aggregation includes RILA products, which are indexed variable annuities. The fixed annuities level of aggregation represents deferred fixed annuities. We have excluded amounts reported in Other Operations from our disaggregated disclosures that are attributable to the indemnity reinsurance agreements with Protective Life Insurance Company (“Protective”) and Swiss Re Life & Health America, Inc (“Swiss Re”) as these contracts are fully reinsured, run-off institutional pension business in the form of group annuity and the results of certain disability income business and are not reflected in the results of the reportable segments listed above. Sale of Wealth Management Business On December 14, 2023, we announced that we had entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement with Osaic Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Osaic”), pursuant to which Osaic agreed to acquire all of the ownership interests in the subsidiaries of the Company that comprise the Company’s wealth management business, which include Lincoln Financial Securities Corporation and Lincoln Financial Advisors Corporation. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2024, subject to customary closing conditions. As of March 31, 2024, we had assets of $155 million and liabilities of $81 million classified as held-for-sale and reported within other assets and other liabilities, respectively, on our Consolidated Balance Sheets. As of December 31, 2023, we had assets of $131 million and liabilities of $60 million classified as held-for-sale and reported within other assets and other liabilities, respectively, on our Consolidated Balance Sheets. Assets considered held-for-sale do not include $71 million of cash and invested cash held by our wealth management business subsidiaries as of March 31, 2024. The assets are reported primarily within Other Operations in Note 16.

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