---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000005513-22-000141"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "UNM"
cik: "0000005513"
company_name: "Unum Group"
filed_at: "2022-08-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T01:38:12.866323+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Unum names Walter Lynn Rice Jr. as SVP, Chief Accounting Officer

## Summary
- Appointment effective August 7, 2022; Rice will serve as principal accounting officer.
- Previously VP of Financial Reporting and Technical Accounting since April 2020.
- Joined Unum in 2005; CPA with prior experience at Ernst & Young and BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000005513-22-000141
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: UNM
- cik: 0000005513
- company_name: Unum Group
- filed_at: 2022-08-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/5513/000000551322000141/0000005513-22-000141-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/5513/000000551322000141/unm-20220805.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000005513-22-000141
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000005513-22-000141.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000005513-22-000141.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Walter Lynn Rice, Jr. was named as Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer at Unum Group.
  - Action: named
  - Role: Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On August 5, 2022, Unum Group (the “Company”) named Walter Lynn Rice, Jr. as Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer of the Company, effective August 7, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/5513/000000551322000141/0000005513-22-000141-index.htm

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