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Business Segments
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2020
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 operations that solely retain risk on an excess basis.
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
(Loss) Income
 
Net (Loss) Income to Common Stockholders
Three months ended March 31, 2020
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Insurance
$
1,484,955

 
$
123,458

 
$
8,473

 
$
1,616,886

 
$
175,947

 
$
140,117

Reinsurance & Monoline Excess
206,463

 
37,710

 

 
244,173

 
36,514

 
29,187

Corporate, other and eliminations (3)

 
13,595

 
113,130

 
126,725

 
(41,755
)
 
(33,755
)
Net investment losses

 

 
(177,174
)
 
(177,174
)
 
(177,174
)
 
(139,967
)
Total
$
1,691,418

 
$
174,763

 
$
(55,571
)
 
$
1,810,610

 
$
(6,468
)
 
$
(4,418
)
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 investment gains

 

 
68,653

 
68,653

 
68,653

 
54,236

Total
$
1,592,856

 
$
158,254

 
$
185,912

 
$
1,937,022

 
$
229,439

 
$
180,722

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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, 2020 and 2019 were $168 million and $170 million, respectively. Revenues for Reinsurance & Monoline Excess from foreign countries for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 were $69 million and $59 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,
2020
 
December 31,
2019
Insurance
$
19,485,407

 
$
20,005,802

Reinsurance & Monoline Excess
4,405,637

 
4,710,819

Corporate, other and eliminations
2,198,885

 
1,913,409

Consolidated
$
26,089,929

 
$
26,630,030



Net premiums earned by major line of business are as follows:
 
For the Three Months
Ended March 31,
 
(In thousands)
2020
 
2019
Insurance:
 
 
 
Other liability
$
547,129

 
$
490,661

Workers’ compensation
301,600

 
326,676

Short-tail lines (1)
295,478

 
289,091

Commercial automobile
189,643

 
180,925

Professional liability
151,105

 
139,681

Total Insurance
1,484,955

 
1,427,034

 
 
 
 
Reinsurance & Monoline Excess:
 
 
 
Casualty reinsurance
122,731

 
90,830

Monoline excess (2)
42,161

 
38,981

Property reinsurance
41,571

 
36,011

Total Reinsurance & Monoline Excess
206,463

 
165,822

 
 
 
 
Total
$
1,691,418

 
$
1,592,856


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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.