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Business Segments
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2020
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 September 30, 2020
Insurance$1,531,093 $87,828 $9,463 $1,628,384 $178,971 $130,266 
Reinsurance & Monoline Excess217,828 40,306 — 258,134 61,532 49,070 
Corporate, other and eliminations (3)— 14,516 99,807 114,323 (73,067)(57,781)
Net investment gains— — 38,978 38,978 38,978 30,123 
Total$1,748,921 $142,650 $148,248 $2,039,819 $206,414 $151,678 
Three months ended September 30, 2019
Insurance$1,493,854 $99,628 $11,611 $1,605,093 $202,390 $162,994 
Reinsurance & Monoline Excess182,956 43,768 — 226,724 46,863 38,240 
Corporate, other and eliminations (3)— 18,296 114,138 132,434 (47,736)(37,184)
Net investment gains— — 1,465 1,465 1,465 1,158 
Total$1,676,810 $161,692 $127,214 $1,965,716 $202,982 $165,208 
Nine months ended September 30, 2020
Insurance$4,481,092 $255,392 $25,953 $4,762,437 $431,464 $315,733 
Reinsurance & Monoline Excess636,161 101,477 — 737,638 110,611 88,947 
Corporate, other and eliminations (3)— 45,975 300,715 346,690 (176,369)(139,471)
Net investment losses— — (60,311)(60,311)(60,311)(46,689)
Total$5,117,253 $402,844 $266,357 $5,786,454 $305,395 $218,520 
Nine months ended September 30, 2019
Insurance$4,396,071 $332,072 $38,542 $4,766,685 $612,777 $488,228 
Reinsurance & Monoline Excess520,436 127,791 — 648,227 144,353 115,630 
Corporate, other and eliminations (3)— 48,416 319,103 367,519 (194,664)(154,736)
Net investment gains— — 143,691 143,691 143,691 113,516 
Total$4,916,507 $508,279 $501,336 $5,926,122 $706,157 $562,638 
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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 September 30, 2020 and 2019 were $183 million and $185 million, respectively, and for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 were $500 million and $535 million, respectively. Revenues for Reinsurance & Monoline Excess from foreign countries for the three months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 were $77 million and $65 million, respectively, and for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 were $212 million and $186 million, respectively.
(3) Corporate, other and eliminations represent corporate revenues and expenses that are not allocated to business segments.
Identifiable Assets
(In thousands)September 30,
2020
December 31,
2019
Insurance$21,060,144 $20,005,802 
Reinsurance & Monoline Excess4,697,249 4,710,819 
Corporate, other and eliminations2,454,977 1,913,409 
Consolidated$28,212,370 $26,630,030 
    Net premiums earned by major line of business are as follows:
 For the Three Months
Ended September 30,
For the Nine Months
Ended September 30,
(In thousands)2020201920202019
Insurance:
Other liability$561,595 $527,253 $1,653,189 $1,523,534 
Short-tail lines (1)326,019 310,423 917,466 905,365 
Workers' compensation271,802 321,872 852,101 979,059 
Commercial automobile203,047 191,136 583,024 560,340 
Professional liability168,630 143,170 475,312 427,773 
Total Insurance1,531,093 1,493,854 4,481,092 4,396,071 
Reinsurance & Monoline Excess:
Casualty reinsurance130,186 106,532 383,375 292,471 
Monoline excess (2)43,577 40,639 126,800 119,020 
Property reinsurance44,065 35,785 125,986 108,945 
Total Reinsurance & Monoline Excess217,828 182,956 636,161 520,436 
Total$1,748,921 $1,676,810 $5,117,253 $4,916,507 
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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.