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22 Insurance contracts and contingencies
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2020
Insurance Contracts And Contingencies  
Insurance contracts and contingencies
22 Insurance contracts and contingencies

 

a) Insurance contracts

 

The Company and its subsidiaries have a risk management program with the purpose of delimiting the risks, seeking in the market coverage compatible with its size and operations.

 

b) Legal proceedings and contingencies

 

The provisions related to labor and civil proceedings whose likelihood of loss is assessed as probable are as follows:

 

  Labor Civil Taxes Total
         
Balances as of December 31, 2017 297 1,423 - 1,720
Business combinations 2,089 - - 2,089
Additions 13 - - 13
Reversals (166) (191) - (357)
Balances as of December 31, 2018 2,233 1,232 - 3,465
Business combinations 3,301 1,071 - 4,372
Additions 737 1,508 - 2,245
Reversals (3,770) (1,043) - (4,813)
Balances as of December 31, 2019 2,501 2,768 - 5,269
Business combinations 2,741 2,348 27,487 32,576
Additions* 562 10,869 7,853 19,284
Reversals (1,285) (2,705) - (3,990)
Balances as of December 31, 2020 4,519 13,280 35,340 53,139

 

*The total amount of R$ 9,940 are related to legal proceedings attributed to the selling shareholders administration. The same amount was recorded as indemnification assets in the balance sheet in other assets.

  

There are other civil, labor, taxes and social security proceedings assessed by Management and its legal counsels as possible risk of loss, for which no provisions are recognized, as follows:

 

  2020 2019
     
Labor 2,318 3,570
Civil 59,969 39,135
Taxes and social security 4,375 7,583
Total 66,662 50,288

  

The Company has judicial deposits recorded in other assets (non-current) in the amount of R$ 1,451 as of December 31, 2020 (R$ 804 as of December 31, 2019).

 

Under the terms of the Share Purchase and Sale Agreements ("Agreements") between the Company and the selling shareholders of the subsidiaries acquired, the Company assesses that the selling shareholders are exclusively responsible for any provisions (including labor, tax and civil), which are or will be the subject of a claim by any third party, arising from the act or fact occurred, by action or omission, prior to or on the closing dates of the acquisitions.

 

Accordingly, and considering that the provisions for legal proceedings recorded by the Company that result from causes arising from events occurring prior to the closing dates of the acquisitions, any liability for the amounts to be disbursed, in case of their effective materialization in loss, belongs exclusively to the selling shareholders. In this context, the Agreements state that the Company and its subsidiaries are indemnified and therefore exempt from any liability related to said contingent liabilities and, therefore, the provision amounts related to such contingencies are presented in the non-current liabilities and the correspondent amount of R$ 53,499 as of December 31, 2020 (December 31, 2019: R$ 6,690) is presented in non-current other assets.