Unum Group announced today that its Unum Life Insurance Company of America subsidiary has entered into an agreement to cede to Fortitude Reinsurance Company Ltd., on a coinsurance basis, certain individual long-term care insurance policies representing $3.8 billion of statutory reserves in Fairwind Insurance Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Unum.
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