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Investments - Summary of Amortized Cost and Estimated Fair Value of Available-for-Sale Investments, Excluding VIE Investments Held by Successor Ambac, by Contractual Maturity (Detail) (Successor [Member], USD $)
In Thousands, unless otherwise specified
Mar. 31, 2015
Dec. 31, 2014
Schedule of Available-for-sale Securities [Line Items]    
Amortized Cost, Due in one year or less $ 413,150us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesDebtMaturitiesWithinOneYearAmortizedCost  
Amortized Cost, Due after one year through five years 927,630us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesDebtMaturitiesAfterOneThroughFiveYearsAmortizedCost  
Amortized Cost, Due after five years through ten years 994,286us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesDebtMaturitiesAfterFiveThroughTenYearsAmortizedCost  
Amortized Cost, Due after ten years 213,586us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesDebtMaturitiesAfterTenYearsAmortizedCost  
Amortized Cost, Total 2,548,652us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesDebtMaturitiesSingleMaturityDateAmortizedCostBasis  
Amortized Cost 4,958,298us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesAmortizedCost 4,939,325us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesAmortizedCost
Estimated Fair Value, Due in one year or less 413,291us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesDebtMaturitiesWithinOneYearFairValue  
Estimated Fair Value, Due after one year through five years 935,442us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesDebtMaturitiesAfterOneThroughFiveYearsFairValue  
Estimated Fair Value, Due after five years through ten years 1,013,939us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesDebtMaturitiesAfterFiveThroughTenYearsFairValue  
Estimated Fair Value, Due after ten years 217,966us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesDebtMaturitiesAfterTenYearsFairValue  
Estimated Fair Value due, Total 2,580,638us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesDebtMaturitiesSingleMaturityDate  
Fixed income securities 5,151,543us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecurities 5,150,018us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecurities
Fixed Income Securities [Member]    
Schedule of Available-for-sale Securities [Line Items]    
Amortized Cost 4,672,886us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesAmortizedCost
/ us-gaap_InvestmentTypeAxis
= us-gaap_FixedIncomeSecuritiesMember
/ us-gaap_StatementScenarioAxis
= us-gaap_SuccessorMember
4,514,878us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesAmortizedCost
/ us-gaap_InvestmentTypeAxis
= us-gaap_FixedIncomeSecuritiesMember
/ us-gaap_StatementScenarioAxis
= us-gaap_SuccessorMember
Fixed income securities 4,865,750us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecurities
/ us-gaap_InvestmentTypeAxis
= us-gaap_FixedIncomeSecuritiesMember
/ us-gaap_StatementScenarioAxis
= us-gaap_SuccessorMember
4,725,686us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecurities
/ us-gaap_InvestmentTypeAxis
= us-gaap_FixedIncomeSecuritiesMember
/ us-gaap_StatementScenarioAxis
= us-gaap_SuccessorMember
Fixed Income Securities [Member] | Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities [Member]    
Schedule of Available-for-sale Securities [Line Items]    
Amortized Cost 1,705,246us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesAmortizedCost
/ us-gaap_InvestmentTypeAxis
= us-gaap_FixedIncomeSecuritiesMember
/ us-gaap_MajorTypesOfDebtAndEquitySecuritiesAxis
= us-gaap_ResidentialMortgageBackedSecuritiesMember
/ us-gaap_StatementScenarioAxis
= us-gaap_SuccessorMember
1,557,059us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesAmortizedCost
/ us-gaap_InvestmentTypeAxis
= us-gaap_FixedIncomeSecuritiesMember
/ us-gaap_MajorTypesOfDebtAndEquitySecuritiesAxis
= us-gaap_ResidentialMortgageBackedSecuritiesMember
/ us-gaap_StatementScenarioAxis
= us-gaap_SuccessorMember
Fixed income securities 1,846,477us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecurities
/ us-gaap_InvestmentTypeAxis
= us-gaap_FixedIncomeSecuritiesMember
/ us-gaap_MajorTypesOfDebtAndEquitySecuritiesAxis
= us-gaap_ResidentialMortgageBackedSecuritiesMember
/ us-gaap_StatementScenarioAxis
= us-gaap_SuccessorMember
1,710,955us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecurities
/ us-gaap_InvestmentTypeAxis
= us-gaap_FixedIncomeSecuritiesMember
/ us-gaap_MajorTypesOfDebtAndEquitySecuritiesAxis
= us-gaap_ResidentialMortgageBackedSecuritiesMember
/ us-gaap_StatementScenarioAxis
= us-gaap_SuccessorMember
Fixed Income Securities [Member] | Collateralized Debt Obligations [Member]    
Schedule of Available-for-sale Securities [Line Items]    
Amortized Cost 88,569us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesAmortizedCost
/ us-gaap_InvestmentTypeAxis
= us-gaap_FixedIncomeSecuritiesMember
/ us-gaap_MajorTypesOfDebtAndEquitySecuritiesAxis
= us-gaap_CollateralizedDebtObligationsMember
/ us-gaap_StatementScenarioAxis
= us-gaap_SuccessorMember
21,346us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesAmortizedCost
/ us-gaap_InvestmentTypeAxis
= us-gaap_FixedIncomeSecuritiesMember
/ us-gaap_MajorTypesOfDebtAndEquitySecuritiesAxis
= us-gaap_CollateralizedDebtObligationsMember
/ us-gaap_StatementScenarioAxis
= us-gaap_SuccessorMember
Fixed income securities 88,238us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecurities
/ us-gaap_InvestmentTypeAxis
= us-gaap_FixedIncomeSecuritiesMember
/ us-gaap_MajorTypesOfDebtAndEquitySecuritiesAxis
= us-gaap_CollateralizedDebtObligationsMember
/ us-gaap_StatementScenarioAxis
= us-gaap_SuccessorMember
21,122us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecurities
/ us-gaap_InvestmentTypeAxis
= us-gaap_FixedIncomeSecuritiesMember
/ us-gaap_MajorTypesOfDebtAndEquitySecuritiesAxis
= us-gaap_CollateralizedDebtObligationsMember
/ us-gaap_StatementScenarioAxis
= us-gaap_SuccessorMember
Fixed Income Securities [Member] | Asset-backed Securities [Member]    
Schedule of Available-for-sale Securities [Line Items]    
Amortized Cost 615,831us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesAmortizedCost
/ us-gaap_InvestmentTypeAxis
= us-gaap_FixedIncomeSecuritiesMember
/ us-gaap_MajorTypesOfDebtAndEquitySecuritiesAxis
= us-gaap_AssetBackedSecuritiesMember
/ us-gaap_StatementScenarioAxis
= us-gaap_SuccessorMember
833,366us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesAmortizedCost
/ us-gaap_InvestmentTypeAxis
= us-gaap_FixedIncomeSecuritiesMember
/ us-gaap_MajorTypesOfDebtAndEquitySecuritiesAxis
= us-gaap_AssetBackedSecuritiesMember
/ us-gaap_StatementScenarioAxis
= us-gaap_SuccessorMember
Fixed income securities $ 636,190us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecurities
/ us-gaap_InvestmentTypeAxis
= us-gaap_FixedIncomeSecuritiesMember
/ us-gaap_MajorTypesOfDebtAndEquitySecuritiesAxis
= us-gaap_AssetBackedSecuritiesMember
/ us-gaap_StatementScenarioAxis
= us-gaap_SuccessorMember
$ 882,001us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecurities
/ us-gaap_InvestmentTypeAxis
= us-gaap_FixedIncomeSecuritiesMember
/ us-gaap_MajorTypesOfDebtAndEquitySecuritiesAxis
= us-gaap_AssetBackedSecuritiesMember
/ us-gaap_StatementScenarioAxis
= us-gaap_SuccessorMember