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Business Segments
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2021
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 
OtherTotal (2)Pre-Tax Income (Loss)Net Income (Loss) to Common Stockholders
Three months ended March 31, 2021
Insurance$1,604,979 $105,237 $8,279 $1,718,495 $257,109 $198,708 
Reinsurance & Monoline Excess244,977 37,708 — 282,685 68,649 54,471 
Corporate, other and eliminations (3)— 15,632 105,218 120,850 (64,529)(52,606)
Net investment gains— — 34,839 34,839 34,839 28,952 
Total$1,849,956 $158,577 $148,336 $2,156,869 $296,068 $229,525 
Three months ended March 31, 2020
Insurance$1,484,955 $123,458 $8,473 $1,616,886 $175,947 $140,117 
Reinsurance & Monoline Excess206,463 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)
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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, 2021 and 2020 were $196 million and $168 million, respectively. Revenues for Reinsurance & Monoline Excess from foreign countries for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020 were $88 million and $69 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,
2021
December 31,
2020
Insurance$21,985,027 $21,702,328 
Reinsurance & Monoline Excess4,678,740 4,654,158 
Corporate, other and eliminations3,127,507 2,215,479 
Consolidated$29,791,274 $28,571,965 
    Net premiums earned by major line of business are as follows:
 For the Three Months
Ended March 31,
(In thousands)20212020
Insurance:
Other liability$601,902 $547,129 
Short-tail lines (1)324,740 295,478 
Workers' compensation267,449 301,600 
Commercial automobile220,761 189,643 
Professional liability190,128 151,105 
Total Insurance1,604,979 1,484,955 
Reinsurance & Monoline Excess:
Casualty reinsurance149,638 122,731 
Property reinsurance49,466 41,571 
Monoline excess (2)45,873 42,161 
Total Reinsurance & Monoline Excess244,977 206,463 
Total$1,849,956 $1,691,418 
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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.