US insurers must file statutory financial statements with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and with each state where they are licensed, quarterly and annually, under statutory accounting principles rather than GAAP. Sovos Statutory Reporting automates statement preparation, cross-checking and submission, alongside insurance premium tax filing and the Booke by Sovos education program.
| Best suited for | US property and casualty, life, health and fraternal insurers filing statutory statements with the NAIC and state insurance departments |
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| Filings covered | NAIC annual and quarterly statements, state-specific compliance forms, and insurance premium tax filings |
| Accounting basis | Statutory accounting principles, as adopted by the NAIC, rather than GAAP |
| Named products | Sovos Statutory Reporting, formerly Wings Insurance Software; Booke by Sovos education; insurance premium tax filing |
| Regulatory monitoring | NAIC and state filing changes monitored and applied, including changes adopted by the NAIC Blanks Working Group |
| Data handling | Cross-checking and validation across schedules and exhibits, with information entered once rather than re-keyed per filing |
| Education | Seminars and the Annual Statement Handbook, updated during the year as statutory accounting and reporting changes are adopted |
| Related capability | IPT Determination covers insurance premium tax determination within the Indirect Tax Suite |
| Product group | Specialized Solutions |
| Pricing model | Custom, driven by the filings in scope, entity count and modules licensed |
Statutory accounting exists to answer a different question from GAAP. GAAP asks whether a company is profitable and fairly presented to investors. Statutory accounting asks whether an insurer can pay claims, so it is deliberately conservative: assets that could not be readily converted to pay policyholders are treated differently, and the presentation is built around solvency rather than earnings.
The filings reflect that. An insurer submits an annual statement and quarterly statements to the NAIC and to the insurance department of each state where it is licensed. The statement is not a short form: it runs to exhibits and schedules covering investments, premiums, losses, reserves and expenses, with figures that must reconcile across them.
The blank differs by sector, which is why property and casualty, life, health and fraternal insurers each work from their own version with its own schedules and instructions.
Four reasons, and the third is the one that surprises people outside the industry.
A change moving investments between schedules, for example, requires not only the current year treatment but a consistent prior year comparison, from an accounting system that may not hold the data at that granularity.
Sovos Statutory Reporting, formerly Wings Insurance Software, prepares and submits annual and quarterly statements to the NAIC and to states.
Insurance premium tax filing sits alongside statutory reporting, and premium tax determination is covered by IPT Determination within the Sovos Indirect Tax Suite. An insurer therefore has the option of one vendor across determination, premium tax filing and statutory reporting.
Booke by Sovos is the education program that sits alongside the software, providing seminars and published guidance on statutory accounting and reporting for insurance professionals. Sovos acquired Booke in 2020, having acquired Eagle Technology Management, the statutory reporting technology, in 2019.
The Annual Statement Handbook is the best known of its publications: a manual for annual statement preparation and statutory accounting guidance, updated during the year as changes are adopted rather than only at year end. Booke also brought software for federal income tax filing for insurers.
The education matters for a practical reason. Statutory accounting is a specialized discipline with a limited talent pool, and the rules change annually, so the constraint on a statutory reporting function is often knowledge rather than software.
Statutory reporting is a recurring cycle rather than a year-end event. Quarterly statements are filed during the year and the annual statement follows the year end, with supplemental filings and state-specific forms attached to their own deadlines.
Because the NAIC adopts changes for each reporting year, part of every cycle is implementing that year’s changes rather than repeating last year’s process. Teams that treat the annual statement as a repeatable process without checking what the Blanks Working Group adopted are the ones that discover a new requirement during preparation.
Implementation centers on mapping the general ledger and investment data to the schedule structure of the applicable blank, and on establishing the prior-year comparatives the statement requires. Insurers with multiple licensed entities usually sequence entity by entity.
Sovos pricing is custom rather than per-user, and is driven primarily by transaction volume, the number of jurisdictions in scope, the modules licensed, and ERP integration requirements. Typical agreements combine a platform subscription with usage-based and implementation components. For statutory reporting, the filings in scope and the number of licensed entities are the main drivers.
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The annual financial statement US insurers file with the NAIC and with each state where they are licensed, prepared under statutory accounting principles rather than GAAP. It comprises exhibits and schedules covering investments, premiums, losses, reserves and expenses, which must reconcile with each other.
Statutory accounting is oriented to solvency rather than earnings. It asks whether an insurer can pay claims, and is deliberately more conservative in how assets are treated. GAAP is oriented to fair presentation for investors. Insurers frequently maintain both.
Yes. Sovos Statutory Reporting covers submission to the NAIC and to state insurance departments, alongside state-specific compliance forms. Insurance premium tax filing sits alongside it, and premium tax determination is covered by IPT Determination in the Indirect Tax Suite.
The NAIC group that adopts changes to the annual and quarterly statutory statements. Because it adopts changes for each reporting year, part of every filing cycle is implementing that year’s changes rather than repeating the prior year’s process.
The education program alongside the software, providing seminars and published guidance on statutory accounting and reporting, including the Annual Statement Handbook, which is updated during the year as changes are adopted. Sovos acquired Booke in 2020.
