Cigna Group
For the period ended Sep 30, 2026. Filed Nov 5, 2026.
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Sep 30, 2026 · Filed Nov 5, 2026
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Insurance and Contractholder Liabilities
Note 7 –Insurance and Contractholder Liabilities
A. Account Balances – Insurance and Contractholder Liabilities
The Company's insurance and contractholder liabilities were comprised of the following:
| September 30, 2026 · December 31, 2025 · September 30, 2025 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (In millions) | Current | Non-current | Total | Current | Non-current | Total | Total |
| Unpaid claims and claim expenses | |||||||
| Cigna Healthcare | $4,923 | $65 | $4,988 | $4,180 | $61 | $4,241 | $4,676 |
| Other | 152 | 143 | 295 | 167 | 176 | 343 | 335 |
| Future policy benefits | |||||||
| Cigna Healthcare | 38 | 152 | 190 | 38 | 153 | 191 | 192 |
| Other Operations | 142 | 2,799 | 2,941 | 142 | 3,081 | 3,223 | 3,297 |
| Contractholder deposit funds | 312 | 5,572 | 5,884 | 336 | 5,778 | 6,114 | 6,132 |
| Market risk benefits | 22 | 468 | 490 | 25 | 649 | 674 | 709 |
| Unearned premiums | 815 | 43 | 858 | 822 | 40 | 862 | 756 |
| Total insurance and contractholder liabilities | $6,404 | $9,242 | $15,646 | $5,710 | $9,938 | $15,648 | $16,097 |
Insurance and contractholder liabilities expected to be paid within one year are classified as current.
B. Unpaid Claims and Claim Expenses – Cigna Healthcare
This liability reflects estimates of the ultimate cost of claims that have been incurred but not reported, expected development on reported claims, claims that have been reported but not yet paid (reported claims in process), and other medical care expenses and services payable that are primarily comprised of accruals for incentives and other amounts payable to health care professionals and facilities.
The total of incurred but not reported liabilities plus expected development on reported claims and reported claims in process was $4.8 billion as of September 30, 2026 and $4.5 billion as of September 30, 2025.
Activity, net of intercompany transactions, in the unpaid claims liability for the Cigna Healthcare segment was as follows:
| Nine Months Ended September 30, | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| (In millions) | 2026 | 2025 (1) | |
| Beginning balance | $4,241 | $5,018 | |
| Less: Reinsurance and other amounts recoverable | 147 | 159 | |
| Beginning balance, net | 4,094 | 4,859 | |
| Incurred costs related to: | |||
| Current year | 24,409 | 25,763 | |
| Prior years | (356) | (319) | |
| Total incurred | 24,053 | 25,444 | |
| Paid costs related to: | |||
| Current year | 19,880 | 20,399 | |
| Prior years | 3,412 | 4,055 | |
| Total paid | 23,292 | 24,454 | |
| Less: Divestiture and other | — | 1,323 | |
| Ending balance, net | 4,855 | 4,526 | |
| Add: Reinsurance and other amounts recoverable | 133 | 150 | |
| Ending balance | $4,988 | $4,676 | |
(1) Includes unpaid claims amounts classified as liabilities of businesses held for sale prior to the completion of the HCSC transaction. As of December 31, 2024, includes $983 million classified as liabilities of businesses held for sale.
Reinsurance and other amounts recoverable reflect amounts due from reinsurers and policyholders to cover incurred but not reported and pending claims of certain business for which the Company administers the plan benefits without any right of offset. See Note 8 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on reinsurance.
Variances in incurred costs related to prior years' unpaid claims and claim expenses that resulted from the differences between actual experience and the Company's key assumptions were as follows:
| Nine Months Ended September 30, | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 · 2025 | |||||||
| (Dollars in millions) | $ | % (1) | $ | % (2) | |||
| Actual completion factors and other | $210 | 0.7 | % | $185 | 0.5 | % | |
| Medical cost trend | 146 | 0.4 | 134 | 0.3 | |||
| Total favorable variance | $356 | 1.1 | % | $319 | 0.8 | % | |
(1)Percentage of current year incurred costs as reported for the year ended December 31, 2025.
(2)Percentage of current year incurred costs as reported for the year ended December 31, 2024.
Favorable prior year development in both years primarily reflects lower than expected utilization of medical services as compared to our assumptions.
C. Future Policy Benefits
The weighted average interest rates applied and duration for future policy benefits in Other Operations, consisting of annuity and life insurance products, were as follows:
| As of | ||
|---|---|---|
| September 30, 2026 | September 30, 2025 | |
| Interest accretion rate | 5.64% | 5.64% |
| Current discount rate | 6.15% | 5.11% |
| Weighted average duration | 10.0 years | 10.8 years |
Obligations for annuities represent discounted periodic benefits to be paid to an individual or groups of individuals over their remaining lives. Other Operations' traditional insurance contracts, which are in run-off, have no premium remaining to be collected; therefore, future policy benefit reserves represent the present value of expected future policy benefits, discounted using the current discount rate, and the remaining amortizable deferred profit liability.
Future policy benefits include deferred profit liability of $0.3 billion as of September 30, 2026 and $0.4 billion as of September 30, 2025. Future policy benefits excluding deferred profit liability were $2.6 billion as of September 30, 2026 and $2.9 billion as of December 31, 2025, September 30, 2025, and December 31, 2024. Undiscounted expected future policy benefits were $4.1 billion as of September 30, 2026 and $4.2 billion as of September 30, 2025. As of September 30, 2026 and September 30, 2025, $0.8 billion and $0.9 billion, respectively, of the future policy benefit reserve was recoverable through treaties with external reinsurers.
D. Contractholder Deposit Funds
Contractholder deposit fund liabilities within Other Operations were $5.9 billion as of September 30, 2026, $6.1 billion as of both December 31, 2025 and September 30, 2025, and $6.3 billion as of December 31, 2024. Approximately 37% of the balance is reinsured externally. Activity in these liabilities is presented net of reinsurance in the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows.
As of September 30, 2026, the weighted average crediting rate, net amount at risk and cash surrender value for contractholder deposit fund liabilities not effectively exited through reinsurance were 3.21%, $2.3 billion and $2.7 billion, respectively. The comparative amounts as of September 30, 2025 were 3.26%, $2.6 billion and $2.8 billion, respectively. More than 99% of the $3.7 billion liability as of September 30, 2026 and the $3.9 billion liability as of September 30, 2025 not reinsured externally is for contracts with guaranteed interest rates of 3% -4%, and approximately $1.1 billion and $1.2 billion as of these period ends represented contracts with policies at the guarantee. At these same period ends, $1.0 billion and $1.1 billion was 50 -150 basis points ("bps") above the guarantee, and the remaining $1.6 billion as of both September 30, 2026 and September 30, 2025 represented contracts above the guarantee that pay the policyholder based on the greater of a guaranteed minimum cash value or the actual cash value. As of both September 30, 2026 and September 30, 2025, more than 90% of these contracts have actual cash values of at least 110% of the guaranteed cash value.
E. Market Risk Benefits
Liabilities for market risk benefits ("MRBs") consist of variable annuity reinsurance contracts in Other Operations. These liabilities arise under annuities and riders to annuities written by ceding companies that guarantee the benefit received at death and, for a subset of policies, also provide contractholders the option, within 30 days of a policy anniversary after the appropriate waiting period, to elect minimum income payments. The Company's capital market risk exposure on variable annuity reinsurance contracts arises when the reinsured guaranteed minimum benefit exceeds the contractholder's account value in the related underlying mutual funds at the time the insurance benefit is payable under the respective contract. The Company receives and pays premium periodically based on the terms of the reinsurance agreements.
Market risk benefits activity was as follows:
| Nine Months Ended September 30, | ||
|---|---|---|
| (In millions) | 2026 | 2025 |
| Balance, beginning of year | $674 | $785 |
| Balance, beginning of year, before the effect of nonperformance risk (own credit risk) | 714 | 838 |
| Changes due to expected run-off | (15) | (14) |
| Changes due to capital markets versus expected | (160) | (30) |
| Changes due to policyholder behavior versus expected | (14) | (20) |
| Assumption changes | (11) | (17) |
| Balance, end of period, before the effect of changes in nonperformance risk (own credit risk) | 514 | 757 |
| Nonperformance risk (own credit risk), end of period | (24) | (48) |
| Balance, end of period | $490 | $709 |
| Reinsured market risk benefit, end of period | $514 | $756 |
The following table presents the net amount at risk and the average attained age of contractholders (weighted by exposure) for contracts assumed by the Company. The net amount at risk is the amount the Company would have to pay to contractholders if all deaths or annuitizations occurred as of the earliest possible date in accordance with the insurance contract. The Company should be reimbursed in full for these payments unless the Berkshire reinsurance limit is exceeded, as discussed further in Note 8 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.
| (Dollars in millions, excludes impact of reinsurance ceded) | September 30, 2026 | September 30, 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Net amount at risk | $989 | $1,141 |
| Average attained age of contractholders (weighted by exposure) | 78.5 years | 78.2 years |
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