Stockholders' Equity and Statutory Accounting Practices (Narrative) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2022	Dec. 31, 2021
Stockholders' Equity and Statutory Accounting Practices [Abstract]
Increase in statutory capital and surplus due to prescribed practice	$ 74	$ 67
Statutory amount available for dividend payment before consideration of statutory dividends paid in the preceding twelve months	1,057
Dividends paid in the preceding twelve months	$ 990
Statutory accounting practices, statutory capital and surplus, percentage of action level risk based capital	238.00%	264.00%

Statutory Accounting Practices, Dividends Paid in the preceding twelve months

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Statutory Accounting Practices, Statutory Amount Available for Dividend Payments Before Consideration of Statutory Dividends Paid in the preceding twelve months

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Statutory Accounting Practices, Statutory Capital And Surplus, Percentage Of Action Level Risk Based Capital

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Stockholders' Equity and Statutory Accounting Practices

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Amount as of the balance sheet date of each item listed to reconcile the differences resulting from applying state prescribed statutory accounting practices rather than statutory accounting practices prescribed by National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 944
-SubTopic 505
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph (b)
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6486098&loc=d3e24746-158529

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