Unum Group

The Closed Block segment consists of group and individual long-term care and other insurance products no longer actively marketed. We discontinued offering individual long-term care in 2009 and group long-term care in 2012. As of July 2025, we closed the Fortitude Re reinsurance transaction and ceded a portion of the long-term care product line. As of February 2026, we discontinued new enrollments on existing group long-term care policies. Other insurance products include individual disability, group pension, individual life and corporate-owned life insurance, reinsurance pools and management operations, and other miscellaneous product lines.

Shown below are financial results and key performance indicators for the Closed Block segment.

Premium income for the long-term care product line was lower during the first quarter of 2026 relative to the same period in 2025 due primarily to the impact of the Fortitude Re reinsurance transaction. Premium income for our all other product line continues to decline as expected due to policyholder lapses.

Net investment income was lower during the first quarter of 2026 relative to the same period of 2025 primarily due to a decrease in the level of invested assets resulting from the Fortitude Re reinsurance transaction and a decrease in the allocation of net investment income from our corporate owned excess assets, partially offset by an increase in miscellaneous investment income, primarily related to larger increases in the NAV on our private equity partnerships.

Other income primarily includes the underlying results and associated net investment income of certain assumed blocks of business.

Policy benefits including remeasurement loss were higher during the first quarter of 2026 relative to the same period of 2025 due to group policy terminations and claim incidence in the long-term care product line, partially offset by the impact of the Fortitude Re reinsurance transaction. The net premium ratio for long-term care increased to 97.6 percent at March 31, 2026 from 94.7 percent at March 31, 2025 due to the impacts of the reserve assumption updates in the third quarter of 2025.

The other expense ratio was higher in the first quarter of 2026 due primarily to an increase in the amortization of cost of reinsurance as a result of the Fortitude Re reinsurance transaction.

We will continue to execute on our well-defined strategy of implementing long-term care premium rate increases, efficient capital management, improved financial analysis, and operational effectiveness. In regard to capital management, we will continue to explore, and execute where appropriate, structural and reinsurance options to enhance financial flexibility. We continue to file requests with various state insurance departments for premium rate increases on certain of our individual and group long-term care policies which reflect assumptions as of the date of filings. In states for which a rate increase is submitted and approved, we routinely provide customers options for coverage changes or other approaches that might fit their current financial and insurance needs. Despite continued anticipated premium rate increases in our long-term care business, we expect overall premium income and adjusted operating revenue to decline over the long term as these closed blocks of business wind down and with the discontinuation of new enrollments on existing group long-term care policies as of February 2026. We will likely experience volatility in net investment income due to fluctuations of miscellaneous investment income, driven by the allocation towards alternative assets, primarily private equity partnership investments, in the long-term care product line portfolio. We record changes in our share of the NAV of the partnerships in net investment income. We receive financial information related to our investments in partnerships and generally record investment income on a one-quarter lag in accordance with our accounting policy. As these NAVs are volatile and can fluctuate materially with changes in market economic conditions, there could be significant movements up or down in future periods as conditions change. We continuously monitor key indicators to assess our risks and adjust our business plans, including utilization of derivative financial instruments to manage interest rate risk.

Profitability of our long-tailed products is affected by claims experience related to mortality, morbidity, resolutions, investment returns, premium rate increases, and persistency. The net premium ratio represents the ratio of future expected benefits and related expenses to future expected gross premiums using the original discount rate. Long-term care benefits experience may continue to have quarterly volatility, particularly in the near term as our claim block matures and as we continue the implementation of premium rate increases. Claim resolution rates which reflect the probability that a disability or long-term care claim will close due to recovery or death of the insureds, are very sensitive to operational and external factors and can be volatile. Our claim resolution rate assumption used in determining reserves is our expectation of the resolution rate we will experience over the life of the block of business and will vary from actual experience in any one period. It is possible that variability in any of our reserve assumptions, including, but not limited to, mortality, morbidity, resolutions, premium rate increases, benefit change elections, and persistency, could result in a material impact to our reserves.

As a result of the execution of reinsurance transactions related to our Closed Block individual disability and long-term care lines of business, we have ceded a significant portion of this business.