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The amount recovered from insurance. These recoveries reduce costs and losses that are reported as a separate line item under operating expenses.

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Amount of excess (deficiency) of insurance recovery over the loss incurred from an insured event.

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 450
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Amount of insurance proceeds for an event or transaction that is unusual in nature or infrequent in occurrence, or both.

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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