Cash Paid In Loss Portfolio Transfer Agreement

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Cash Received In Loss Portfolio Transfer Agreement

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Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operations, Percentage Of Stock Sold

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Amount of gain (loss) from sale and disposal of integrated set of activities and assets capable of being conducted and managed for purpose of providing return in form of dividend, lower cost, or other economic benefit to investor, owner, member and participant.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
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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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The cash inflow associated with the amount received from the sale of a portion of the company's business, for example a segment, division, branch or other business, during the period.

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Significant transactions - Loss Portfolio Transfer (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions			9 Months Ended
	Jul. 07, 2020	Jan. 23, 2020	Sep. 30, 2020	Sep. 30, 2019
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Gain (loss) on disposition of business			$ 0.9	$ 0.0
Cash received in loss portfolio transfer agreement		$ 69.7
Cash paid in loss portfolio transfer agreement		$ 0.4
Empire Insurance Company \| Runoff & Other
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Percentage of stock disposed of	100.00%
Proceeds from fees received	$ 11.4
Gain (loss) on disposition of business	$ 0.9