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Industry Segments
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2020
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Industry Segments Industry 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, 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 table. Income 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
OtherTotal (2)Pre-Tax
Income
(Loss)
Net
Income
(Loss)
to Common Stockholders
Year ended December 31, 2020      
Insurance $6,067,669 $375,554 $35,611 $6,478,834 $668,012 $487,125 
Reinsurance & Monoline Excess863,174 146,029 — 1,009,203 205,587 164,655 
Corporate, other and eliminations (3)— 62,238 445,650 507,888 (271,797)(214,291)
Net investment gains— — 103,000 103,000 103,000 93,181 
Consolidated$6,930,843 $583,821 $584,261 $8,098,925 $704,802 $530,670 
Year ended December 31, 2019
Insurance$5,919,819 $429,405 $47,850 $6,397,074 $814,862 $650,510 
Reinsurance & Monoline Excess713,469 164,082 — 877,551 189,188 152,046 
Corporate, other and eliminations (3)— 52,127 454,741 506,868 (271,833)(215,967)
Net investment gains— — 120,703 120,703 120,703 95,355 
Consolidated$6,633,288 $645,614 $623,294 $7,902,196 $852,920 $681,944 
Year ended December 31, 2018
Insurance$5,702,073 $433,490 $72,727 $6,208,290 $717,154 $571,381 
Reinsurance & Monoline Excess669,432 179,534 — 848,966 201,001 160,791 
Corporate, other and eliminations (3)— 61,211 418,696 479,907 (260,549)(213,469)
Net investment gains— — 154,488 154,488 154,488 122,046 
Consolidated$6,371,505 $674,235 $645,911 $7,691,651 $812,094 $640,749 


Identifiable Assets
(In thousands)December 31,
20202019
Insurance$21,739,360 $20,020,455 
Reinsurance & Monoline Excess4,652,074 4,710,445 
Corporate, other and eliminations (3)2,215,479 1,931,244 
Consolidated$28,606,913 $26,662,144 
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(1) Certain amounts included in earned premiums of each segment are related to inter-segment transactions.
(2) Revenues for Insurance includes $691.5 million, $725.4 million, and $714.2 million in 2020, 2019, and 2018, respectively, from foreign countries. Revenues for Reinsurance & Monoline Excess includes $291.6 million, $249.6 million, and $228.1 million in 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively, from foreign countries.
(3) Corporate, other and eliminations represent corporate revenues and expenses and other items that are not allocated to business segments.
Net premiums earned by major line of business are as follows:
(In thousands)202020192018
Insurance   
Other liability$2,237,285 $2,063,401 $1,912,071 
Short-tail lines1,247,908 1,223,902 1,184,447 
Workers' compensation1,127,487 1,301,980 1,327,206 
Commercial automobile794,171 750,051 722,236 
Professional liability660,818 580,485 556,113 
Total Insurance6,067,669 5,919,819 5,702,073 
Reinsurance & Monoline Excess
Casualty521,559 405,063 362,886 
Monoline Excess171,522 160,071 162,908 
Property170,093 148,335 143,638 
Total Reinsurance & Monoline Excess863,174 713,469 669,432 
Total$6,930,843 $6,633,288 $6,371,505