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Represents the amount of letters of credit as admitted assets to reconcile the differences as of the balance sheet date resulting from applying state permitted statutory accounting practices rather than statutory accounting practices permitted by National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

No definition available.

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Represents the amount of non-admission of goodwill to reconcile the differences as of the balance sheet date resulting from applying state permitted statutory accounting practices rather than statutory accounting practices permitted by National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

No definition available.

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Represents the amount of red mountain note as admitted assets to reconcile the differences as of the balance sheet date resulting from applying state permitted statutory accounting practices rather than statutory accounting practices permitted by National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

No definition available.

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Represents the amount of reserving based on state specific actuarial practices to reconcile the differences as of the balance sheet date resulting from applying state permitted statutory accounting practices rather than statutory accounting practices permitted by National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

No definition available.

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Represents the amount of reserving difference related to a captive insurance company to reconcile the differences as of the balance sheet date resulting from applying state permitted statutory accounting practices rather than statutory accounting practices permitted by National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

No definition available.

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

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 http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6486098&loc=d3e24746-158529