Discontinued Operations

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2020

Discontinued Operations and Disposal Groups [Abstract]

Sale of U.S. Treaty Reinsurance operations

As described in Part II of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company entered into a renewal rights transaction with Transatlantic Reinsurance Company on August 29, 2018 and subsequently sold Maiden US on December 27, 2018 to Enstar. Maiden US was a substantial portion of the Diversified Reinsurance segment; therefore the Company concluded that the sale represented a strategic shift that has a major effect on its ongoing operations and financial results and that all of the held for sale criteria were met. Accordingly, all transactions related to the U.S. treaty reinsurance operations are reported and presented as part the results from discontinued operations in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income.

As described in Part II of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, Cavello Bay Reinsurance Limited ("Cavello"), Enstar’s Bermuda reinsurance affiliate, and Maiden Reinsurance entered into a retrocession agreement pursuant to which certain assets and liabilities associated with the U.S. treaty reinsurance business held by Maiden Reinsurance were retroceded to Cavello on December 27, 2018. As at December 31, 2018, the assets and liabilities related to this business including the retrocession agreement were classified as held for sale, however, a decision was made to reclassify them as it is now considered unlikely that these reserves will be novated in the foreseeable future; therefore, there are no remaining assets and liabilities classified as held for sale as at September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019.

The following table summarizes the major classes of items constituting the net loss from discontinued operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 presented in the unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income:


	For the Three Months Ended September 30,		For the Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2019		2019
Net loss and loss adjustment expenses	$	—	$	6,363
General and administrative expenses	1		(1,842)
Income from discontinued operations before income tax	1		4,521
Loss on disposal of discontinued operations	—		(25,474)
Income tax benefit (expense)	74		(1,095)
Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of income tax	$	75	$	(22,048)

As a result of the Settlement and Commutation Agreement entered into by Maiden and Enstar on July 31, 2019, Maiden recorded an additional loss from discontinued operations of $16,714 for the nine months ended September 30, 2019.