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Represents the minimum dividend as percentage of insurers' surplus as regards to policyholders, to consider dividend as extraordinary.

No definition available.

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Represents the risk based capital ratio requirement under Authorized Control Level.

No definition available.

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Period Type:	duration

Represents the risk based capital ratio requirement under Company Action Level.

No definition available.

Name:	hig_RiskBasedCapitalRatioRequirementCompanyActionLevel
Namespace Prefix:	hig_
Data Type:	num:percentItemType
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Total statutory capital and surplus adjusted to exclude certain statutory liabilities.

No definition available.

Name:	hig_TotalAdjustedCapital
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Data Type:	xbrli:monetaryItemType
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Cash outflow in the form of capital distributions and dividends to common shareholders, preferred shareholders and noncontrolling interests.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 15
-Subparagraph (a)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=98514028&loc=d3e3291-108585

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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.