Statutory Financial Information, Capital Requirements, and Restrictions on Dividends and Transfers of Funds

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2020

Statutory Financial Information, Capital Requirments, and Retrictions on Dividends and Transfers of Funds

Statutory Financial Information, Capital Requirements, and Restrictions on Dividends and Transfers of Funds

(a) Statutory Financial Information

The Insurance Subsidiaries prepare their statutory financial statements in accordance with accounting principles prescribed or permitted by the various state insurance departments of domicile. Prescribed statutory accounting principles include state laws, regulations, and general administrative rules, as well as a variety of publications of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC"). Permitted statutory accounting principles encompass all accounting principles that are not prescribed; such principles differ from state to state, may differ from company to company within a state and may change in the future. The Insurance Subsidiaries do not utilize any permitted statutory accounting principles that affect the determination of statutory surplus, statutory net income, or risk-based capital (“RBC”). As of December 31, 2020, the various state insurance departments of domicile have adopted the March 2020 version of the NAIC Accounting Practices and Procedures manual in its entirety, as a component of prescribed or permitted practices.

The following table provides statutory data for each of our Insurance Subsidiaries:


	State of Domicile	Unassigned Surplus			Statutory Surplus		Statutory Net Income
($ in millions)		2020		2019	2020	2019	2020	2019	2018
SICA	New Jersey	$	574.2	525.9	739.4	680.1	81.8	113.9	78.0
Selective Way Insurance Company ("SWIC")	New Jersey	374.0		339.2	430.0	388.2	54.0	59.2	47.5
SICSC	Indiana	148.6		132.6	182.8	163.8	20.8	23.9	16.5
SICSE	Indiana	115.9		103.1	143.5	128.7	16.8	18.5	12.9
SICNY	New York	111.7		99.4	139.4	127.1	15.3	17.0	12.0
Selective Insurance Company of New England ("SICNE")	New Jersey	30.0		25.3	61.2	55.4	6.8	7.8	5.6
Selective Auto Insurance Company of New Jersey ("SAICNJ")	New Jersey	70.0		62.5	114.9	105.4	12.9	14.9	9.9
MUSIC	New Jersey	34.4		27.1	103.9	95.6	11.4	13.2	9.4
Selective Casualty Insurance Company ("SCIC")	New Jersey	71.1		58.2	147.5	132.7	16.2	16.8	13.3
Selective Fire and Casualty Insurance Company ("SFCIC")	New Jersey	29.2		23.5	62.1	55.4	6.4	7.5	5.5
Total		$	1,559.1	1,396.8	2,124.7	1,932.4	242.4	292.7	210.6

(b) Capital Requirements

The Insurance Subsidiaries are required to maintain certain minimum amounts of statutory surplus to satisfy the requirements of their various state insurance departments of domicile. RBC requirements for property and casualty insurance companies are designed to assess capital adequacy and to raise the level of protection that statutory surplus provides for policyholders. The Insurance Subsidiaries' combined total adjusted capital exceeded the authorized control level RBC, as defined by the NAIC based on their 2020 statutory financial statements. In addition to statutory capital requirements, we are impacted by various rating agency requirements related to certain rating levels. These required capital levels may be more than statutory requirements.

Our ability to declare and pay dividends on the Parent's common stock is dependent on liquidity at the Parent coupled with the ability of the Insurance Subsidiaries to declare and pay dividends, if necessary, and/or the availability of other sources of liquidity to the Parent.

In addition to regulatory restrictions on the availability of dividends that our Insurance Subsidiaries can pay to the Parent, the maximum amount of dividends the Parent can pay our shareholders is limited by certain New Jersey corporate law provisions that limit dividends if either: (i) the Parent would be unable to pay its debts as they became due in the usual course of business; or (ii) the Parent’s total assets would be less than its total liabilities. The Parent’s ability to pay dividends to shareholders also

are impacted by (i) covenants in its Line of Credit that obligate it, among other things, to maintain a minimum consolidated net worth and a maximum ratio of consolidated debt to total capitalization, and (ii) the terms of our preferred stock that prohibit dividends to be declared or paid on our common stock if dividends are not declared and paid, or made payable, on all outstanding preferred stock for the latest completed dividend period.

As of December 31, 2020, the Parent had an aggregate of $490.2 million in investments and cash available to fund future dividends and interest payments. These amounts are not subject to any regulatory restrictions other than the standard state insolvency restrictions noted above, whereas our consolidated retained earnings of $2.3 billion are predominately restricted due to the regulation associated with our Insurance Subsidiaries. In 2021, the Insurance Subsidiaries have the ability to provide for $241.0 million in annual dividends to the Parent; however, as regulated entities, these dividends are subject to certain restrictions, which are further discussed below. The Parent also has available to it other potential sources of liquidity, such as: (i) borrowings from our Indiana Subsidiaries; (ii) debt issuances; (iii) common and preferred stock issuances; and (iv) borrowings under our Line of Credit. Borrowings from our Indiana Subsidiaries are governed by approved intercompany lending agreements with the Parent that provide for additional capacity of $97.1 million as of December 31, 2020, based on restrictions in these agreements that limit borrowings to 10% of the admitted assets of the Indiana Subsidiaries. For additional restrictions on the Parent's debt, see Note 11. "Indebtedness" in this Form 10-K.

Insurance Subsidiaries Dividend Restrictions

As noted above, the restriction on our net assets and retained earnings is predominantly driven by our Insurance Subsidiaries' ability to pay dividends to the Parent under applicable laws and regulations. Under the insurance laws of the domiciliary states of the Insurance Subsidiaries, New Jersey, Indiana, and New York, an insurer can potentially make an ordinary dividend payment if its statutory surplus following such dividend is reasonable in relation to its outstanding liabilities, is adequate to its financial needs, and the dividend does not exceed the insurer's unassigned surplus. In general, New Jersey defines an ordinary dividend as a dividend whose fair market value, together with other dividends made within the preceding 12 months, is less than the greater of 10% of the insurer's statutory surplus as of the preceding December 31, or the insurer's net income (excluding capital gains) for the 12-month period ending on the preceding December 31. Indiana's ordinary dividend calculation is consistent with New Jersey's, except that it does not exclude capital gains from net income. In general, New York defines an ordinary dividend as a dividend whose fair market value, together with other dividends made within the preceding 12 months, is less than the lesser of 10% of the insurer's statutory surplus, or 100% of adjusted net investment income.

New Jersey and Indiana require notice of the declaration of any ordinary dividend distribution. During the notice period, the relevant state regulatory authority may disallow all or part of the proposed dividend if it determines that the dividend is not appropriate given the above considerations. New York does not require notice of ordinary dividends. Dividend payments exceeding ordinary dividends are referred to as extraordinary dividends and require review and approval by the applicable domiciliary insurance regulatory authority prior to payment.

The table below provides the following information: (i) quantitative data regarding all Insurance Subsidiaries' dividends paid to the Parent in 2020, which was used for debt service, shareholder dividends, and general operating purposes; and (ii) the maximum ordinary dividends that can be paid to the Parent by the Insurance Subsidiaries in 2021, based on the 2020 statutory financial statements.


Dividends		Twelve Months ended December 31, 2020		2021
($ in millions)	State of Domicile	Ordinary Dividends Paid		Maximum Ordinary Dividends
SICA	New Jersey	$	46.6	$	81.8
SWIC	New Jersey	22.5		54.1
SICSC	Indiana	7.5		20.8
SICSE	Indiana	5.3		16.8
SICNY	New York	3.0		13.9
SICNE	New Jersey	2.2		6.7
SAICNJ	New Jersey	5.9		12.9
MUSIC	New Jersey	6.0		11.4
SCIC	New Jersey	5.2		16.2
SFCIC	New Jersey	0.8		6.4
Total		$	105.0	$	241.0