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Percent of future claim payments reinsured under reinsurance agreement(s), net of existing retrocessional arrangements at the time agreement was made.

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Fair Value Measurement, Non-Performance Risk Adjustment

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Includes incurred but not reported claims and outstanding claims,off-set by premiums due, related to market risk benefit contracts, as a well as reinsurance recoverable, defined as amount, after allowance for credit loss, recoverable under reinsurance for contract or contract feature in long-duration contract issued by insurance entity that both protects contract holder from other-than-nominal capital market risk and exposes insurance entity to other-than-nominal capital market risk.

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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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For an entity that discloses a concentration risk in relation to quantitative amount, which serves as the "benchmark" (or denominator) in the equation, this concept represents the concentration percentage derived from the division.

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The carrying amount as of the balance sheet date due the entity from (a) agents and insureds, (b) uncollected premiums and (c) others, net of the allowance for doubtful accounts.

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Estimated amount after valuation allowance of reinsurance recoverables, due from reinsurers for incurred claims not yet reported, and claims settlement expenses.

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Reinsurance - Effective Exit of Variable Annuity Reinsurance Business (Details) - Variable Annuity - USD ($) $ in Millions	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022	Dec. 31, 2022
Ceded Credit Risk [Line Items]
Market risk benefits reinsurance recoverable, including IBNR and outstanding claims, less premiums due	$ 1,014		$ 1,014		$ 1,398
Incurred but not yet paid and outstanding claims	21		21		27
Premiums due					3
Impact of non-performance risk
Berkshire
Ceded Credit Risk [Line Items]
Percent of future claim payments reinsured	100.00%		100.00%
Remaining overall limit under reinsurance agreement	$ 3,100		$ 3,100
Market risk benefits reinsurance recoverable, including IBNR and outstanding claims, less premiums due	810		$ 810		1,116
Berkshire \| Secured \| Market risk benefits reinsurance recoverable, including IBNR and outstanding claims, less premiums due \| Collateralization risk
Ceded Credit Risk [Line Items]
Concentration percentage			90.00%
Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada
Ceded Credit Risk [Line Items]
Market risk benefits reinsurance recoverable, including IBNR and outstanding claims, less premiums due	81		$ 81		115
Liberty Re (Bermuda) Ltd.
Ceded Credit Risk [Line Items]
Market risk benefits reinsurance recoverable, including IBNR and outstanding claims, less premiums due	94		$ 94		128
Liberty Re (Bermuda) Ltd. \| Secured \| Market risk benefits reinsurance recoverable, including IBNR and outstanding claims, less premiums due \| Collateralization risk
Ceded Credit Risk [Line Items]
Concentration percentage			100.00%
SCOR SE
Ceded Credit Risk [Line Items]
Market risk benefits reinsurance recoverable, including IBNR and outstanding claims, less premiums due	$ 29		$ 29		$ 39
SCOR SE \| Secured \| Market risk benefits reinsurance recoverable, including IBNR and outstanding claims, less premiums due \| Collateralization risk
Ceded Credit Risk [Line Items]
Concentration percentage			85.00%