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Represents the amount of premium revenue on financial guaranty insurance contracts recognized during the period, excluding acceleration of premium earnings and accretion of discount on net premium receivable.

No definition available.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Amount, after premiums ceded to other entities and premiums assumed by the entity, of premiums earned.

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