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Any receivable from the seller should not be netted against the related liability in the balance sheet or in supporting information such as footnotes or SEC Industry Guide 6 disclosures. The SEC staff also expressed a preference that (1) any expense associated with increased reserves be reported as a component of other claim losses and loss adjustment expenses and (2) other claim losses and loss adjustment expenses not be reduced by the effect of the reserve guarantee. </span></span></div></li><li class=\"li\" id=\"d3e575460-122917__SL6349794-122917\"><div class=\"p\"><span class=\"sfragment\" id=\"sfr_0B22E848-6E94-1014-A13F-6E4B94C84136\"><span class=\"sfragment-source\">The SEC staff would not object to </span></span><span class=\"sfragment\" id=\"sfr_0B22E912-6E94-1014-A13F-6E4B94C84136\"><span class=\"sfragment-source\">claim losses and loss adjustment expenses being reported net of the effect of the reserve guarantee in the income statement. A net presentation is appropriate only if the effects of the reserve guarantee are disclosed separately in the notes to the financial statements, in the SEC Industry Guide 6 disclosures including the reconciliation of claims reserves, and in the loss ratio information.</span></span></div></li></ul></div></div>","snippet":"The following is the text of SEC Observer Comment: Accounting by the Purchaser for a Seller's Guarantee of the Adequacy of Liabilities for Losses and Loss Adjustment Expenses Acquired in a Purchase Business Combination.\n…","pending":false,"provenance":{"source_url":"https://asc.fasb.org/","snapshot_version":"sha256:15aea8165dff9f5ae47d9484f8470588b13b307f56e1d50801bf4d85ec190e3f","record_version":"sha256:ae33580f8608eeda3335f1776cc4f3045e424ab768db1adf1bc4b684768b162e","downloaded_from":"2026-09-10T01:27:09.747Z","last_downloaded_at":"2026-09-10T01:27:09.747Z","date_scope":"source_page","effective_as_of":null,"effective_as_of_status":"Not established by retrieval timestamps","source_key":"1943274/2147477394","source_sha256":"7ef97474fa3c2706de008452c81d8835853d078ab4faa54c469a641f5bc5c81a"}}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://asc.fasb.org/","snapshot_version":"sha256:15aea8165dff9f5ae47d9484f8470588b13b307f56e1d50801bf4d85ec190e3f","record_version":"sha256:b277fdb73d7dea048bfa05d1520e1dc23a41ede9a87f27faab3850cbd6fd193a","downloaded_from":"2026-09-10T01:27:09.747Z","last_downloaded_at":"2026-09-10T01:27:09.747Z","date_scope":"source_page","effective_as_of":null,"effective_as_of_status":"Not established by retrieval timestamps","source_key":"1943274/2147477394","source_sha256":"7ef97474fa3c2706de008452c81d8835853d078ab4faa54c469a641f5bc5c81a"}}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://asc.fasb.org/","snapshot_version":"sha256:15aea8165dff9f5ae47d9484f8470588b13b307f56e1d50801bf4d85ec190e3f","record_version":"sha256:b287d2d12447c6a347fb03080bb03a294f1e45defe48d70ea007609a579eb175","downloaded_from":"2026-09-10T01:27:09.747Z","last_downloaded_at":"2026-09-10T01:27:09.747Z","date_scope":"source_page","effective_as_of":null,"effective_as_of_status":"Not established by retrieval timestamps","source_key":"1943274/2147477394","source_sha256":"7ef97474fa3c2706de008452c81d8835853d078ab4faa54c469a641f5bc5c81a"}},"provenance":{"source_url":"https://asc.fasb.org/","snapshot_version":"sha256:15aea8165dff9f5ae47d9484f8470588b13b307f56e1d50801bf4d85ec190e3f","record_version":"sha256:b287d2d12447c6a347fb03080bb03a294f1e45defe48d70ea007609a579eb175","downloaded_from":"2026-09-10T01:27:09.747Z","last_downloaded_at":"2026-09-10T01:27:09.747Z","date_scope":"source_page","effective_as_of":null,"effective_as_of_status":"Not established by retrieval timestamps","source_key":"1943274/2147477394","source_sha256":"7ef97474fa3c2706de008452c81d8835853d078ab4faa54c469a641f5bc5c81a"}}