It is possible that the results of operations or the cash flow of the Company in a particular quarterly or annual period could be materially affected as a result of payments in connection with the matters discussed above, depending, in part, upon the results of operations or cash flow for such period. Management believes, however, that the ultimate payments in connection with these matters should not have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial position.
The Company’s litigation and regulatory matters are subject to many uncertainties, and given their complexity and scope, the outcomes cannot be predicted. It is possible that the results of operations or the cash flow of the Company in a particular quarterly or annual period could be materially affected by an ultimate unfavorable resolution of pending litigation and regulatory matters. Management believes, however, that the ultimate outcome of all pending litigation and regulatory matters should not have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial position.
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Pruco Life Insurance Company and Subsidiaries
Notes to Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited)
3. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Adoption of Statement of Position 03-1
In July 2003, the Accounting Standards Executive Committee, or “AcSEC,” of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, or “AICPA,” issued Statement of Position, or “SOP,” 03-1, “Accounting and Reporting by Insurance Enterprises for Certain Nontraditional Long-Duration Contracts and for Separate Accounts”. AcSEC issued the SOP to address the need for interpretive guidance to be developed in three areas: separate account presentation and valuation; the accounting recognition given sales inducements (bonus interest, bonus credits, persistency bonuses); and the classification and valuation of certain long-duration contract liabilities.
The Company adopted the SOP effective January 1, 2004. The effect of initially adopting SOP 03-1 was a net of tax charge of $9.2 million, reported as a cumulative effect of accounting change in the results of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2004. This charge reflects primarily the net impact of converting certain individual market value adjusted annuity contracts from separate account accounting treatment to general account accounting treatment and the effect of establishing reserves for guaranteed minimum death benefit, or “GMDB,” provisions of the Company’s variable annuity contracts. In addition, the Company recorded an increase in other comprehensive income of $4.0 million, after tax, related to recording the cumulative unrealized investment gains, net of shadow deferred acquisition costs, or “DAC,” on fixed maturities reclassified from the separate account to the general account as of January 1, 2004.
In June 2004, the FASB issued FASB Staff Position, or “FSP,” 97-1, “Situations in Which Paragraphs 17(b) and 20 of FASB Statement No. 97, Accounting and Reporting by Insurance Enterprises for Certain Long-Duration Contracts and for Realized Gains and Losses from the Sale of Investments, Permit or Require an Accrual of an Unearned Revenue Liability.” FSP 97-1 clarifies the accounting for unearned revenue liabilities of certain universal-life contracts under SOP 03-1. The Company’s adoption of FSP 97-1 on July 1, 2004 did not change the accounting for unearned revenue liabilities and therefore had no impact on the Company’s results of operations.
The cumulative effect of the adoption of this SOP is shown in the statement of cash flows under “Cumulative Effect of Accounting Change” and includes increases in fixed maturities of $403 million and policyholders’ account balances of $387 million related to the reclassifications of annuity contracts from the separate account to the general account. This activity also includes the establishment of the GMDB reserves of approximately $45 million and the increase in DAC of $23 million. Other balance sheet accounts that were affected include other long-term investments and deferred taxes payable.
Stock Options
In December 2004, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123 (R), “Share-Based Payment,” which replaces FASB Statement No. 123, “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation.” SFAS No. 123 (R) requires all entities to apply the fair value based measurement method in accounting for share-based payment transactions with employees, except for equity instruments held by employee share ownership plans. Under this method, compensation costs of awards to employees, such as stock options, are measured at fair value and expensed over the period during which an employee is required to provide service in exchange for the award (the vesting period). The Company had previously adopted the fair value recognition provision of the original SFAS No. 123, prospectively for all new stock options issued to employees on or after January 1, 2003. As issued, SFAS No. 123 (R), is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after June 15, 2005. However, the SEC has recently deferred the effective date and as a result the Company will adopt SFAS No. 123 (R) on January 1, 2006. By that date, there will be no unvested stock options issued prior to January 1, 2003.
Reclassifications
Certain amounts in the prior year have been reclassified to conform to the current year presentation.
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4. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
Corporate Owned Life Insurance
Prudential Insurance owns Corporate Owned Life Insurance Policies issued by the Company. The cash surrender value of these policies included in separate account liabilities was $1.1 billion at March 31, 2005 and December 31, 2004.
Purchase of fixed maturities from an affiliate
In 2004, the Company purchased certain of fixed maturities from Prudential Insurance for $110 million, the fair market value plus accrued interest at the acquisition date, but reflected the investments at historical amortized cost of $99 million. The Company also sold $31 million of fixed maturities securities, recorded at an amortized cost of $29 million, to Prudential Arizona Reinsurance Captive Company, or “PARCC.” The difference between the historical amortized cost and the fair value, net of taxes, was reflected as a reduction to additional paid-in capital. The fixed maturity investments are categorized in the Company’s consolidated statements of financial position as available for sale fixed maturities, and are therefore carried at fair value, with the difference between amortized cost and fair value reflected in accumulated other comprehensive income. Gains and losses will be realized upon disposition of the investment to an entity not under common control.
Reinsurance with Affiliates
During the third quarter of 2004, the Company entered into an agreement to reinsure its term life insurance policies known as Term Elite and Term Essential, or “Term,” with PARCC, an affiliated company. The Company reinsured with PARCC, 90 percent of the risks under such policies through an automatic and facultative coinsurance agreement. The Company is not relieved of its primary obligation to the policyholder as a result of these reinsurance transactions.
Concurrently with implementing the new Agreement, the Company recaptured the term reinsurance previously reinsured under a coinsurance treaty with an affiliated offshore captive company, Pruco Reinsurance, Ltd. The agreement had covered all term policies written on or after October 1, 2002. As a result of this recapture, the Company recognized a net gain of $1.2 million.
The new coinsurance agreement with PARCC replaces the yearly renewable term agreements with external reinsurers that were previously in effect on this block of business. Similar yearly renewable term agreements on this block of business have been placed with external reinsurers, through affiliated companies. There was no net cost associated with the initial transaction and initial transactions were accounted for in accordance with SFAS No. 113, “Accounting and Reporting for Reinsurance of Short-Duration and Long-Duration Contracts.” Reinsurance recoverables related to this transaction were $251 million as of March 31, 2005.
In December 2004, the Company recaptured the excess of loss reinsurance agreement with The Prudential Insurance Company of America, or “Prudential Insurance,” and replaced it with a revised agreement to reinsure all risks not otherwise reinsured. Reinsurance recoverables related to this agreement were $49 million as of March 31, 2005. The Company is not relieved of its primary obligation to the policyholder as a result of this agreement.
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Item 4. Controls and Procedures
In order to ensure that the information we must disclose in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported on a timely basis, the Company’s management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, previously reviewed and evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(e), as of March 31, 2005. Based on such evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer previously concluded that, as of March 31, 2005, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective in timely alerting them to material information relating to us required to be included in our periodic SEC filings. No change in our internal control over financial reporting, as defined in Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(f), occurred during the quarter ended March 31, 2005, that materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting. These conclusions are not affected by the misclassifications in the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows discussed in the following paragraph, which were identified subsequent to the filing of the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2005.
As reported in a Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the Company on February 7, 2006, management of the Company concluded that certain amounts were incorrectly classified in the Company’s audited Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2004, 2003 and 2002 included in the Company’s 2004 Annual Report on Form 10-K (the “2004 Form 10-K”) and in the Company’s unaudited Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the periods ended March 31 and June 30, 2005 and 2004 included in the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31 and June 30, 2005 (the “2005 Forms 10-Q”). In connection with the preparation of the Company’s Consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2005, management of the Company concluded on February 1, 2006 that the Company should file a Form 10-K/A and Forms 10-Q/A, including this Form 10-Q/A, restating the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows included in the 2004 Form 10-K and in the 2005 Forms 10-Q. The restatements are limited in scope, relating principally to the classification of data collected and not to the collection of data or to the numerical accuracy of data collected. The Company has implemented enhancements to its internal control over financial reporting, primarily with respect to the periodic analysis and review of statements of cash flows, designed to provide reasonable assurance that errors of this type in the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows will not recur.
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PART II
OTHER INFORMATION
Item 6. Exhibits
| 31.1 | Section 302 Certification of the Chief Executive Officer, |
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| 31.2 | Section 302 Certification of the Chief Financial Officer, |
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| 32.1 | Section 906 Certification of the Chief Executive Officer, |
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| 32.2 | Section 906 Certification of the Chief Financial Officer. |
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in the City of Newark and State of New Jersey on the 9th day of February 2006.
| PRUCO LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY |
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| By: | /s/ John Chieffo John Chieffo (Authorized Signatory and Principal Accounting and Financial Officer) |
Date: February 9, 2006
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Exhibit Index
Exhibit Number and Description
| 31.1 | Section 302 Certification of the Chief Executive Officer, |
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| 31.2 | Section 302 Certification of the Chief Financial Officer, |
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| 32.1 | Section 906 Certification of the Chief Executive Officer, |
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| 32.2 | Section 906 Certification of the Chief Financial Officer. |
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