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<div style="margin-top: 12pt; font-size: 10pt;" align="left"><b>1. GENERAL</b> </div>
<div style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 10pt;" align="left"> Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, Ltd ("Holdings") was incorporated in Bermuda on November 13, 2001. Holdings, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries (collectively, the "Company"), provides property and casualty insurance and reinsurance on a worldwide basis through operations in Bermuda, the United States, Europe, Hong Kong and Singapore.</div></div> </div>1. GENERAL
Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, Ltd ("Holdings") was incorporated in Bermuda on November 13, 2001.falsefalsefalseus-types:textBlockItemTypetextblockDescribes the nature of an entity's business, the major products or services it sells or provides and its principal markets, including the locations of those markets. If the entity operates in more than one business, the disclosure also indicates the relative importance of its operations in each business and the basis for the determination (for example, assets, revenues, or earnings). Disclosures about the nature of operations need not be quantified; relative importance could be conveyed by use of terms such as "predominately", "about equally", or "major and other". This element is also referred to as "Business Description".Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher AICPA
-Name Statement of Position (SOP)
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