12 Largest US Life Insurance Corps Filing With the SEC Posted 4Q 2017 Total Earnings of $11.248 Bil, $12.846 Bil Better Than Their 4Q 2016 Total Losses of $1.598 Bil ........................................................................................ $11.055 Bil or 98% of Their 4Q 2017 Total Earnings of $11.248 Bil Was Courtesy of the Very Lucrative US Federal Income Tax Debt Forgiveness Feature Embedded in the Trump Tax Cuts Act

Below here are the 12 largest US Life Insurance Corps each with Book Value of Total Stockholders Equity above $5 Bil.  Some of them have their common stock trading and others don't.  Metropolitan Life Insurance is excluded below since it hasn't yet filed its December 2017 10-K with the SEC.

				Corp
				Quarter
				End
				When					TTCA	TTCA
				Trump	US GAAP	US GAAP			US	Decline
Total				Tax	Net	Net			Federal	in Value of
Book				Cuts	Income	Income			Income	Deferred
Value of	US Life Insurance Corporation			Act	(Loss)	(Loss)			Tax	Income
Stockholders	SEC SIC 6311		State	TTCA	Dec 17	Dec 16	Better		Debt	Tax
Equity	Book Value of Stk Equity > $5 Bil	City Hqs	HQs	Signed	Quarter	Quarter	(Worse)		Forgiveness	Assets
bils $					mils $	mils $	mils $		mils $	mils $
54.3	Prudential Financial	Newark	NJ	Dec 17	3,865	293	3,572		3,377
58.9	MetLife	New York	NY	Dec 17	2,315	(971)	3,286		1,790
9.6	Reinsurance Group of America	Chesterfield	MO	Dec 17	1,217	190	1,027		1,034
6.2	Torchmark Corp	McKinney	TX	Dec 17	1,027	125	902		877
7.1	Protective Life	Birmingham	AL	Dec 17	864	72	792		798
17.3	Lincoln National Corp	Radnor	PA	Dec 17	816	189	627		1,322
14.6	Brighthouse Financial	Charlotte	NC	Dec 17	668	(1,765)	2,433		725
6.9	Allstate Life Insurance	Northbrook	IL	Dec 17	650	108	542		514
5.2	American National Insurance	Galveston	TX	Dec 17	344	60	284		206
15.3	Genworth Financial	Richmond	VA	Dec 17	265	(59)	324		412
6.7	Hartford Life Insurance	Hartford	CT	Dec 17	(316)	57	(373)			(396)
11.0	Voya Financial	New York	NY	Dec 17	(467)	103	(570)			(679)
	Total all 12				11,248	(1,598)	12,846		11,055	(1,075)