CITIZENS INC

(7)REINSURANCE

In the normal course of business, the Company reinsures portions of certain policies that we underwrite to mitigate exposure to potential losses and/or to provide additional capacity for growth. In our international business, we generally retain $100,000 on any one individual life insurance policy and reinsure the death benefit amount above $100,000. We also reinsure 100% of our accidental death benefit rider coverage. In the second quarter of 2024, CICA Domestic entered into a coinsurance agreement with RGA Reinsurance Company ("RGA"). Under this agreement, CICA Domestic initially elected for RGA to reinsure 50% of its newly written final expense business.

Prior to 2024, the Company maintained catastrophic reinsurance for its Louisiana property and casualty business operated through Security Plan Fire Insurance Company. This reinsurance had a net retention on any one loss of $30,000, which was the maximum policy limit on any single risk. The Company ceased this business in June 2023 and thus did not renew this reinsurance.

Our amounts recoverable from reinsurers represent receivables from and reserves ceded to reinsurers. We obtain reinsurance from multiple reinsurers. We monitor our reinsurance concentration as well as the financial strength ratings of our reinsurers. Their ratings by A.M. Best Company range from A- (Excellent) to A+ (Superior).

Assumed and ceded life reinsurance activity is summarized as follows:

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The Company's reinsurance recoverable on ceded reinsurance was $7.3 million and $4.0 million as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively. Premiums, claims and surrenders assumed and ceded and expenses ceded for all lines of business for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023 are summarized as follows:

(8)COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

LITIGATION AND REGULATORY ACTIONS

From time to time, we are subject to legal and regulatory actions relating to our business. We may incur defense costs, including attorneys' fees, and other direct litigation costs associated with defending claims. If we suffer an adverse judgment as a result of litigation claims, it could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Trade Secret Lawsuit

In the first quarter of 2024, a jury trial was held in the “trade secret lawsuit”. The trade secret lawsuit was filed in 2018 by Citizens, CICA Life Ltd. (Bermuda) and CICA Life Insurance Company of America (collectively, the “Citizens Companies,” “we,” "us" or "our") against certain former employees and independent consultants who we alleged unlawfully took Citizens’ confidential information in order to unfairly compete with us. Our claims against these parties included various unfair competition, tortious interference, breach of contract and other related claims.

In March 2024, the jury found that (i) Defendant Carlos Nalsen Landa (“Landa”), a former independent consultant, misappropriated the Citizens’ Companies' policyholder information, (ii) Citizens’ former chief underwriter, Michael P. Buchweitz (“Buchweitz”) and Randall Riley (“Riley”), a former Citizens executive and son of Citizens’ founder Harold E. Riley, failed to comply with their Citizens’ confidentiality agreements, and (iii) both Buchweitz and Riley intentionally interfered with former Chief Actuary Jonathan Pollio’s ("Pollio") Citizens’ confidentiality agreement. For Buchweitz, the jury also found that he did not have a good faith belief that he was acting in the bona fide exercise of his own rights when he interfered with Pollio’s Citizens’ confidentiality agreement. Despite these findings, the jury did not believe that the above-mentioned actions damaged the Citizens Companies economically and thus did not assess any monetary damages against any of the above parties. Additionally, the jury found that Citizens should

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pay Alexis Delgado (“Delgado”, a former independent consultant) and Landa approximately $1.3 million for “money had and received”, an equitable theory that claimed that the Citizens Companies would be unjustly enriched if they didn’t pay past and future commissions to Delgado and Landa. We accrued this expense at December 31, 2023.

On April 30, 2024, Defendants Riley (through his estate), Buchweitz and Delgado filed a motion against the Citizens Companies seeking payment of legal fees and a hearing was held on these matters on May 21, 2024. On July 26, 2024, the trial court awarded Riley and Buchweitz approximately $3.5 million of their legal fees. We accrued this expense in the quarter ended June 30, 2024.

We do not believe the jury properly found that Delgado or Landa were entitled to any prior or future commissions as there was no evidence that we actually held any amount of commissions that they claim they should have received. We also do not believe that Riley or Buchweitz are entitled to legal fees because they were found to have breached the contracts whose fee shifting provisions they sought to invoke.

We have not paid any amounts to Delgado, Landa, Riley, Buchweitz or any of their attorneys and intend to appeal the judgment against us. We purchased and filed an appeal bond in September 2024 to supercede enforcement of the judgment during the appeal process. If we aren't successful in our appeal, we may have to pay approximately $5 million as a result of the trade secret lawsuit. The accrued amounts are reflected as "other liabilities" on our balance sheet. Additionally, $1.3 million that is reported in cash and cash equivalents on our balance sheet is restricted while the appeal bond remains in place.

CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS

As of September 30, 2024, CICA International is committed to fund investments up to $18.1 million related to limited partnerships previously described.

CREDIT FACILITY

On May 3, 2024, the Company renewed its $20 million senior secured revolving credit facility (the “Credit Facility”) with Regions Bank ("Regions"). The Credit Facility has athree-year term, maturing on May 5, 2027, and allows the Company to borrow up to $20 million for working capital purposes, capital expenditures and other corporate purposes.

Revolving loans may be requested by the Company in aggregate minimum principal amounts of $0.5 million per loan. At the Company's election, the revolving loans may either bear a rate (a fluctuating rate per annum) equal to the greatest of (a) Regions' prime rate, (b) the federal funds rate plus 0.50%, (c) the index rate plus 1.00% or (d)0.75%. The Company is required to pay Regions an annual commitment fee of 0.375% of the unused portion of the Credit Facility in quarterly installments, which the Company expenses as it is incurred.

Obligations under the Credit Facility are secured by substantially all of the assets of the Company other than the equity interests in its subsidiaries, real estate owned by the Company, and other limited exceptions. The Credit Facility contains customary events of default and financial, affirmative and negative covenants, including but not limited to restrictions on indebtedness, liens, investments, asset dispositions and restricted payments. As of September 30, 2024, the Company hadnot borrowed any funds against the Credit Facility and was not in violation of any covenants.

(9)STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY AND RESTRICTIONS

STOCK

Our Restated and Amended Articles of Incorporation authorize the issuance of 127,000,000 shares, of which 100,000,000 shares shall be Class A common stock,2,000,000 shares shall be Class B common stock, and 25,000,000 shall be preferred stock. Both authorized classes of common stock are equal in all respects, except (a)

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each share of Class A common stock is entitled to receive twice the cash dividends paid on a per share basis to the Class B common stock, if any; and (b) the holders of the Class B common stock have the exclusive right to elect a simple majority of the Board of Directors of Citizens. Citizens currently hasno outstanding preferred stock or Class B common stock other than that held in treasury.

A summary of the change in the number of shares of Class A common stock and treasury stock issued is as follows:

EARNINGS PER SHARE

The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted earnings per share.

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STATUTORY CAPITAL AND SURPLUS

Each of our domestic regulated insurance subsidiaries is required to meet stipulated regulatory capital requirements imposed by the U.S. National Association of Insurance Commissioners ("NAIC"). All domestic insurance subsidiaries exceeded the minimum capital requirements at September 30, 2024. On March 27, 2024, Citizens and the Colorado Division of Insurance entered into a capital maintenance agreement that specifies that Citizens will infuse capital as needed to ensure that CICA Domestic's RBC remains above 350%. As CICA Domestic's RBC exceeded 350% at September 30, 2024, no capital contribution was necessary.

CICA International is a Puerto Rico domiciled company. The Insurance Code of Puerto Rico does not specifically set forth minimum capital and surplus standards, but rather requires that an insurer submit a business plan for approval to the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance ("OIC") that includes proposed minimum capital and surplus. CICA International is required to maintain a minimum of $750,000 in capital and maintain a premium to surplus ratio of 7 to 1. CICA International began issuing new business as of January 1, 2023 and received the transfer of all of CICA Bermuda's in force insurance business as of August 31, 2023. At September 30, 2024, CICA International exceeded the required minimum capital and related ratio.

(10)SEGMENT AND OTHER OPERATING INFORMATION

The Company hastwo reportable segments: Life Insurance and Home Service Insurance. Our Life Insurance segment issues endowment contracts, which are principally accumulation contracts that incorporate an element of life insurance protection, and ordinary whole life insurance to non-U.S. residents through CICA International. These contracts are designed to provide a fixed amount of insurance coverage over the life of the insured and may utilize rider benefits to provide additional coverage and annuity benefits to enhance accumulations. CICA Domestic issues ordinary whole life, final expense and life products with living benefits throughout the U.S.

Our Home Service Insurance segment operates through our subsidiaries SPLIC and MGLIC, and focuses on the life insurance needs of the middle- and lower-income markets in Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas. SPLIC also issues critical illness policies. Our policies are sold and serviced through funeral homes and independent agents who sell policies, collect premiums and service policyholders. SPFIC sold property insurance policies in Louisiana and Arkansas until operations were ceased effective June 30, 2023.

The Life Insurance and Home Service Insurance portions of the Company constitute separate businesses. In addition to the Life Insurance and Home Service Insurance business, the Company also operates other non-insurance portions of the Company ("Other Non-Insurance Enterprises"), which primarily include the Company’s IT and corporate-support functions.

The accounting policies of the reportable segments and Other Non-Insurance Enterprises are presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP and are the same as those described in the summary of significant accounting policies in our Form 10-K. The Company evaluates profit and loss performance based on U.S. GAAP net income before federal income taxes for itstwo reportable segments. The Company's Other Non-Insurance Enterprises represents the only reportable difference between segments and consolidated operations.

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(11)INCOME TAXES

The effective tax rate is the ratio of tax expense or tax benefit over pre-tax income. The effective tax rate was 8.1% and (0.2)% for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, compared to 41.9% and 21.3% for the same periods in 2023, respectively. CICA Bermuda and CICA International are considered controlled foreign corporations for federal income tax purposes. As a result, the insurance activity of CICA Bermuda and CICA International are subject to Subpart F of the Internal Revenue Code and are included in Citizens’ taxable income. Due to the 0% enacted tax rate in Bermuda for all periods prior to the transfer of CICA Bermuda's insurance in force business to CICA International, there are no deferred taxes recorded for CICA Bermuda's temporary differences. The Government of Puerto Rico approved a tax exemption decree for CICA International which freezes the income tax rate at 0% on taxable earnings up to $1.2 million and 4% on taxable earnings in excess of $1.2 million for a minimum of 15 years. The effective tax rate varies from the prevailing corporate federal income tax rate of 21.0% mainly due to the impact of Subpart F and uncertain tax positions.

As a result of the August 31, 2023 transfer of CICA Bermuda's in force business to CICA International, the Company's consolidated deferred federal income tax liability was reduced by $4.3 million due to the difference in the tax rates in the jurisdictions in which the companies operate. Since the transfer was between companies under common control, the $4.3 million reduction in the deferred federal income tax liability was recorded as a credit to equity, $1.3 million of which increased retained earnings and $3.0 million of which reduced accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), based on the nature of the tax components.

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At September 30, 2024 and 2023, we determined it was more likely than not that a portion of our capital deferred tax assets would not be realized in their entirety. The Company recorded valuation allowances of $3.8 million and $6.2 million, respectively, through Other Comprehensive Income (Loss).

(12)OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)

The changes in the components of other comprehensive income (loss) are reported net of the effects of income taxes of 21% for domestic entities and 4% for Puerto Rican entities for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, as indicated below.

(13)RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

The Company has various routine related party transactions in conjunction with our holding company structure, such as management service agreements related to costs incurred, a tax sharing agreement between entities, and inter-company dividends and capital contributions. There were no changes related to these relationships during the nine months ended September 30, 2024 except as described in Note 1. Financial Statements under Basis of Presentation and Consolidation. See our Form 10-K for a comprehensive discussion of related party transactions.

(14)SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

The Company has evaluated the impact of subsequent events as defined by the accounting guidance through the date this report was issued and determined that no other significant subsequent events need to be recognized or disclosed at this time.

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