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. In July 2025, we closed the 2025 Fortitude Re reinsurance transaction and ceded a portion of the long-term care product line. In 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 higher in the third quarter of 2026 compared to the same period of 2025 due to premium rate increases, partially offset by group policy terminations. Premium income for the long-term care product line was lower in the first nine months of 2026 compared to the same period of 2025 due to the impact of the 2025 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 higher during the third quarter of 2026 relative to the same period of 2025 primarily due to an increase in the yield on invested assets as well as higher miscellaneous investment income, primarily related to larger increases in the NAV on our private equity partnerships, partially offset by a decrease in the level of invested assets and a decrease in the allocation of net investment income from our corporate owned excess assets. Net investment income was lower during the first nine months 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 higher 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 lower in the third quarter and first nine months of 2026 compared to the same periods of 2025 driven primarily by less unfavorable reserve assumption updates compared to prior year, partially offset by policy terminations and related port activity for our group long-term care product line. Also impacting the comparison for the first nine months of 2026 compared to the same period of 2025 is the impact of the 2025 Fortitude Re reinsurance transaction. The net premium ratio for long-term care increased to 98.1 percent at September 30, 2026 from 97.6 percent at September 30, 2025 due primarily to policy terminations and related port activity for our group long-term care product line.

The other expense ratio was lower in the third quarter of 2026 compared to the same period of 2025 and higher in the first nine months of 2026 compared to the same period of 2025 due to the amortization of the cost of reinsurance as a result of the 2025 Fortitude Re reinsurance transaction. As the transaction closed in the third quarter of 2025, only one quarter of the first nine months of 2025 was impacted.

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.

Premium income is primarily related to the retained portion of our long-term care product line as the majority of other closed product lines have been ceded to third parties. Although our group and individual long-term care products are no longer actively marketed, these guaranteed renewable policies remain in force and we continue to collect premiums where coverage remains active. Premium income is recognized as policyholders continue to pay for ongoing insurance coverage under existing contracts. Given the long duration of the product, premium income for the retained portion of our long-term care product line is expected to run off over the next approximately 30 years depending on factors such as policy persistency, morbidity, mortality, and premium rate actions 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 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.

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.

We expect Closed Block segment adjusted operating income (loss) in subsequent periods will primarily be impacted by the amortization of the cost of reinsurance, the impact of non-contemporaneous reinsurance related to recent reinsurance transactions, the impacts from group policy terminations over the near term, and the allocation of net investment income from our corporate owned excess assets which support the capital allocated to this segment.

As a result of the execution of previous 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.

As previously discussed, we entered into a reinsurance agreement with Fortitude Re to cede an additional portion of our long-term care business during November 2026. For further discussion, see “Executive Summary" contained herein in Item 2 and Note 14 of the “Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements” contained herein in Item 1.