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Asbestos Related Defense Cost Contingency, Range of Possible Expense, Maximum

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Asbestos Related Defense Costs Contingency, Range of Possible Costs, Minimum

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Asbestos Related Liability Future Claims Percentage

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The percentage of the recorded asbestos liability related to pending claims.

No definition available.

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Asbestos Related Loss Contingency, Range of Possible Loss, Maximum-Loss contingency range for pending and future asbestos claims, maximum end of the range

No definition available.

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Asbestos Related Loss Contingency, Range of Outcomes, Minimum Low end of potential range of liabilities for pending and future asbestos claims

No definition available.

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Carrying amount as of the balance sheet date of reserves for the costs of settling insured claims and costs incurred in the claims settlement process attributable to asbestos claims, before estimated recoveries from reinsurers.

No definition available.

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Carrying amount as of the balance sheet date of reserves for the costs of settling insured claims and costs incurred in the claims settlement process, and reserves for defense and processing costs attributable to asbestos claims

No definition available.

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Carrying amount as of the balance sheet date of amounts expected to be recovered under the terms of insurance contracts.

Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 210
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02.17)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6877327&loc=d3e13212-122682

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

No definition available.