Blanks (E) Working Group

2021 Adopted Charges

The Blanks (E) Working Group will:

Consider improvements and revisions to the various annual/quarterly statement blanks to:
1. Conform these blanks to changes made in other areas of the NAIC to promote uniformity in reporting of financial information by insurers.
2. Develop reporting formats for other entities subject to the jurisdiction of state insurance departments.
3. Conform the various NAIC blanks and instructions to adopted NAIC policy.
4. Oversee the development of additional reporting formats within the existing annual financial statements as needs are identified.
Continue to monitor state filing checklists to maintain current filing requirements.
Continue to monitor and improve the quality of financial data filed by insurance companies by recommending improved or additional language for the Annual Statement Instructions.
Continue to monitor and review all proposals necessary for the implementation of statutory accounting guidance to ensure proper implementation of any action taken by the Accounting Practices and Procedures (E) Task Force affecting annual financial statements and/or instructions.
Continue to coordinate with other task forces of the NAIC to ensure proper implementation of reporting and instructions changes as proposed by these task forces.
Coordinate with the Life Actuarial (A) Task Force to use any special reports developed and avoid duplication of reporting.
Review requests for investment schedule blanks and instructions changes in connection with the work being performed by the Capital Adequacy (E) Task Force and its Working Groups.
Review changes requested by the Valuation of Securities (E) Task Force relating to its work on other invested assets reporting for technical consistency within the investment reporting schedules and instructions.

Calendar

Public Webex Meeting
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
12:00 PM ET, 11:00 AM CT, 10:00 AM MT, 9:00 AM PT Expected Length of Call: 1 hr
Webex Link

The purpose of this meeting is to address the proposals deferred during the July 22 meeting and to consider any new items for exposure.

Public Webex Meeting
Thursday, July 22, 2021
10:30 AM ET, 9:30 AM CT, 8:30 AM MT, 7:30 AM PT Expected Length of Call: 1 hr
Webex Link

This meeting is in lieu of the 2021 Summer National Meeting. The Working Group will consider the adoption of meeting minutes and items previously exposed, and discuss any new items.

Public Webex Meeting
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
7:00 AM ET, 6:00 AM CT, 5:00 AM MT, 4:00 AM PT Expected Length of Call: 1 hr
Webex Link

This meeting is in lieu of the 2021 Spring National Meeting, and the purpose is to consider adoption of the proposals exposed at the Blanks (E) Working Group meeting on Dec. 16, 2020, and to consider exposure of any new items.

See all Current Exposure Drafts

Blanks (E) Working Group
Items Received for Comment

Last Updated July 22, 2021

Please address comment letters to Jacob Garn, Chair of the Blanks (E) Working Group, and direct to NAIC staff, Mary Caswell and Calvin Ferguson.

Ref. No.	Description	Comment Deadline
2021-11BWG	Add a new annual statement supplement to the Property and Casualty (P/C) statement to capture exposure data for Annual Statement Lines 2.5, 4, 19.1, 19.2 and 21.2 of the Exhibit of Premiums and Losses. Add a column to the Quarterly Parts 1 and 2 to capture exposure data for these annual statement lines for the quarter.	10/22/2021
2021-12BWG	Add and delete lines on the Analysis of Operations by Lines of Business - Accident and Health for Life/Fraternal to capture health-specific data captured on the Heath Analysis of Operations by Lines of Business but not on the Life/Fraternal Analysis of Operations page and add new crosschecks for the new lines. Add new crosschecks to the Analysis of Operations by Lines of Business – Summary to map the lines on the accident and health (A&H) page to the summary.	10/22/2021
2021-13BWG	Add a new supplement to capture premium and loss data for Annual Statement Lines 17.1, 17.2 and 17.3 of the Exhibit of Premiums and Losses (State Page) – Other Liability by more granular lines of business.	10/22/2021
2021-14BWG	Expand the number of lines of business reported on Schedule H to match the lines of business reported on the Health Statement. Modify the instructions so they will be uniform between life/fraternal and property.	10/22/2021

Adopted Modifications to Financial Statements and Instructions
(updated 7/22/2021)

Editorial Revisions (updated 7/22/2021)

Proposing Amendments to Blanks and Instructions

Procedures (updated 12/17/2019)
Blanks Agenda Proposal Form (updated 7/20/2018)
Blanks Proposal Form Instructions (updated 1/23/2020)

Updates to the Annual/Quarterly Statement Instructions

2020 Instructions Revisions (updated 12/16/2020)
2021 Instructions Revisions (updated 03/16/2021)

Updates to the Annual/Quarterly Statement Blanks

*Please contact Linda Hunsucker for revisions prior to the previous year.

Valid Designation, Designation Modifier and Administrative Symbol

Important Note for 2020 Annual Statement Filing

A discrepancy was noted in the NAIC Designation/NAIC Designation Modifier/Administrative Symbol columns on Schedule BA Part 1. The discrepancy noted was that only four lines were open to allow entry for these columns. All lines have been opened to allow entry for these columns. Please check with your software vendor as to any updates that may be needed.

Filing Issues and Additional Guidance

General Electronic Filing Directives

AVR/IMR Reporting

Assistance With Annual and Quarterly Statement Completion

Education & Training Events

For annual statement preparation online courses, refer to the NAIC Education & Training Web page.

Related NAIC Publications

Minutes for recent national meetings are available for meeting attendees via an event app within 10 days after a meeting concludes. On the NAIC.org website, free access to meeting minutes is available 30 days after a meeting concludes. They are posted to the interactive agenda for each meeting tab on the meetings page. The Proceedings of the NAIC are made available after the minutes are adopted at each subsequent meeting and may be accessed via the NAIC Publications page.

Annual and Quarterly Statement Blanks

Annual and Quarterly Statement Instructions

Compendium of State Laws on Insurance Topics

NAIC Model Laws, Regulations, Guidelines and Other Resources