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Business Segments
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2019
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Business Segments Business Segments
The Company’s reportable segments include the following two business segments, plus a corporate segment:
Insurance - predominantly commercial insurance business, including excess and surplus lines, admitted lines and specialty personal lines throughout the United States, as well as insurance business in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, South America, Canada, Mexico, Scandinavia, Asia and Australia.
Reinsurance & Monoline Excess - reinsurance business on a facultative and treaty basis, primarily in the United States, the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, Australia, the Asia-Pacific Region and South Africa, as well as monoline excess business in the United States.
The accounting policies of the segments are the same as those described in the summary of significant accounting policies. Income tax expense and benefits are calculated based upon the Company's overall effective tax rate.
Summary financial information about the Company's reporting segments is presented in the following tables. Income (loss) before income taxes by segment includes allocated investment income. Identifiable assets by segment are those assets used in or allocated to the operation of each segment.

  
Revenues
 
 
 
 
(In thousands)
Earned
Premiums (1)
 
Investment
Income 
 
Other
 
Total (2)
 
Pre-Tax
Income
(Loss)
 
Net Income
(Loss) to Common Stockholders
Three months ended March 31, 2019
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Insurance
$
1,427,034

 
$
100,041

 
$
13,244

 
$
1,540,319

 
$
184,516

 
$
145,993

Reinsurance & Monoline Excess
165,822

 
39,574

 

 
205,396

 
44,855

 
35,525

Corporate, other and eliminations (3)

 
18,639

 
104,015

 
122,654

 
(68,585
)
 
(55,032
)
Net realized and unrealized gains on investments

 

 
68,653

 
68,653

 
68,653

 
54,236

Total
$
1,592,856

 
$
158,254

 
$
185,912

 
$
1,937,022

 
$
229,439

 
$
180,722

Three months ended March 31, 2018
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Insurance
$
1,391,289

 
$
113,497

 
$
18,968

 
$
1,523,754

 
$
198,929

 
$
157,733

Reinsurance & Monoline Excess
176,119

 
47,015

 

 
223,134

 
44,691

 
35,546

Corporate, other and eliminations (3)

 
14,006

 
81,889

 
95,895

 
(81,094
)
 
(65,170
)
Net realized and unrealized gains on investments

 

 
48,464

 
48,464

 
48,464

 
38,287

Total
$
1,567,408

 
$
174,518

 
$
149,321

 
$
1,891,247

 
$
210,990

 
$
166,396

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(1)Certain amounts included in earned premiums of each segment are related to inter-segment transactions.
(2)Revenues for Insurance from foreign countries for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018 were $170 million and $183 million, respectively. Revenues for Reinsurance & Monoline Excess from foreign countries for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018 were $59 million and $56 million, respectively.
(3)
Corporate, other and eliminations represent corporate revenues and expenses that are not allocated to business segments.
Identifiable Assets
(In thousands)
March 31,
2019
 
December 31,
2018
Insurance
$
18,591,713

 
$
18,214,293

Reinsurance & Monoline Excess
4,512,257

 
4,371,151

Corporate, other and eliminations
2,481,290

 
2,310,533

Consolidated
$
25,585,260

 
$
24,895,977



Net premiums earned by major line of business are as follows:
 
For the Three Months
Ended March 31,
 
(In thousands)
2019
 
2018
Insurance:
 
 
 
Other liability
$
490,661

 
$
464,167

Workers’ compensation
326,676

 
324,978

Short-tail lines (1)
289,091

 
295,027

Commercial automobile
180,925

 
175,199

Professional liability
139,681

 
131,918

Total Insurance
1,427,034

 
1,391,289

 
 
 
 
Reinsurance & Monoline Excess:
 
 
 
Casualty reinsurance
90,830

 
90,570

Monoline excess (2)
38,981

 
41,048

Property reinsurance
36,011

 
44,501

Total Reinsurance & Monoline Excess
165,822

 
176,119

 
 
 
 
Total
$
1,592,856

 
$
1,567,408


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(1) Short-tail lines include commercial multi-peril (non-liability), inland marine, accident and health, fidelity and surety, boiler and machinery and other lines.
(2) Monoline excess includes operations that solely retain risk on an excess basis.