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Estimated benefit included in total loss reserves is the contractual mortgage insurance benefits under mortgage insurance policies net of the adjustment for collectability for our mortgage insurer counterparties' inability to fully pay the contractual mortgage insurance claims.

No definition available.

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Mortgage Insurance Coverage 'risk in force' represents our maximum potential loss recovery under the applicable mortgage insurance policies.

No definition available.

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Mortgage Insurance Coverage Risk in Force, Insurance Claim, Percentage To be Paid in Cash by Mortgage Insurer

No definition available.

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Amount represents risk in force mortgage insurance coverage provided by the mortgage insurers with publicly disclosed financial weaknesses.

No definition available.

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Represents the number of insurance companies who provided the majority of our mortgage insurance.

No definition available.

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Represents the number of our largest mortgage servicers, including their affiliates, servicing the majority of our guaranty book of business.

No definition available.

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Represents the number of mortgage insurers that have publicly disclosed credit quality deterioration.

No definition available.

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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.

No definition available.

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Represents our maximum potential loss recovery under the applicable pool mortgage insurance policies.

No definition available.

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Represents our maximum potential loss recovery under the applicable primary mortgage insurance policies.

No definition available.

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Amount due in settlement of a claim for reimbursement from an insurance company (insurers) and sellers/servicers when the Company has suffered a loss covered under the terms of an insurance policy or a seller/servicer contract.

No definition available.

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Represents mortgage insurance coverage risk in force as a percentage of unpaid principal balance.

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.

No definition available.

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