Investments - Summary of Fair Value, Including Financial Guarantee, and Weighted-Average Underlying Rating, Excluding Financial Guarantee, of Insured Securities (Detail) - Successor [Member] - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Jun. 30, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015
Standard & Poor's, CC Rating [Member]
Investment [Line Items]
Fair value of securities that include benefit of guarantees provided by financial guarantors	$ 2,679,013
Standard & Poor's, CC Rating [Member] | Ambac Assurance Corporation [Member]
Investment [Line Items]
Fair value of securities that include benefit of guarantees provided by financial guarantors	2,580,773	$ 2,277,153
Standard & Poor's, A- Rating [Member] | National Public Finance Guarantee Corporation [Member]
Investment [Line Items]
Fair value of securities that include benefit of guarantees provided by financial guarantors	42,273	47,846
Standard & Poor's, AA- Rating [Member] | Assured Guaranty Municipal Corporation [Member]
Investment [Line Items]
Fair value of securities that include benefit of guarantees provided by financial guarantors	30,024
Standard & Poor's, A+ Rating [Member] | Assured Guaranty Municipal Corporation [Member]
Investment [Line Items]
Fair value of securities that include benefit of guarantees provided by financial guarantors		57,715
Standard & Poor's, A+ Rating [Member] | MBIA Insurance Corporation [Member]
Investment [Line Items]
Fair value of securities that include benefit of guarantees provided by financial guarantors	25,943	25,645
Standard & Poor's, CCC Rating [Member]
Investment [Line Items]
Fair value of securities that include benefit of guarantees provided by financial guarantors		2,408,359
Municipal Bonds [Member] | Standard & Poor's, CC Rating [Member]
Investment [Line Items]
Fair value of securities that include benefit of guarantees provided by financial guarantors	133,090
Municipal Bonds [Member] | Standard & Poor's, CC Rating [Member] | Ambac Assurance Corporation [Member]
Investment [Line Items]
Fair value of securities that include benefit of guarantees provided by financial guarantors	60,793	60,836
Municipal Bonds [Member] | Standard & Poor's, A- Rating [Member] | National Public Finance Guarantee Corporation [Member]
Investment [Line Items]
Fair value of securities that include benefit of guarantees provided by financial guarantors	42,273	47,846
Municipal Bonds [Member] | Standard & Poor's, AA- Rating [Member] | Assured Guaranty Municipal Corporation [Member]
Investment [Line Items]
Fair value of securities that include benefit of guarantees provided by financial guarantors	30,024
Municipal Bonds [Member] | Standard & Poor's, A+ Rating [Member] | Assured Guaranty Municipal Corporation [Member]
Investment [Line Items]
Fair value of securities that include benefit of guarantees provided by financial guarantors		57,715
Municipal Bonds [Member] | Standard & Poor's, CCC Rating [Member]
Investment [Line Items]
Fair value of securities that include benefit of guarantees provided by financial guarantors		166,397
Corporate Debt Securities [Member] | Standard & Poor's, CC Rating [Member]
Investment [Line Items]
Fair value of securities that include benefit of guarantees provided by financial guarantors	25,943
Corporate Debt Securities [Member] | Standard & Poor's, A- Rating [Member] | National Public Finance Guarantee Corporation [Member]
Investment [Line Items]
Fair value of securities that include benefit of guarantees provided by financial guarantors	0	0
Corporate Debt Securities [Member] | Standard & Poor's, AA- Rating [Member] | Assured Guaranty Municipal Corporation [Member]
Investment [Line Items]
Fair value of securities that include benefit of guarantees provided by financial guarantors	0
Corporate Debt Securities [Member] | Standard & Poor's, A+ Rating [Member] | Assured Guaranty Municipal Corporation [Member]
Investment [Line Items]
Fair value of securities that include benefit of guarantees provided by financial guarantors		0
Corporate Debt Securities [Member] | Standard & Poor's, A+ Rating [Member] | MBIA Insurance Corporation [Member]
Investment [Line Items]
Fair value of securities that include benefit of guarantees provided by financial guarantors	25,943	25,645
Corporate Debt Securities [Member] | Standard & Poor's, CCC Rating [Member]
Investment [Line Items]
Fair value of securities that include benefit of guarantees provided by financial guarantors		25,645
Mortgage and Asset-Backed Securities [Member] | Standard & Poor's, CC Rating [Member]
Investment [Line Items]
Fair value of securities that include benefit of guarantees provided by financial guarantors	2,519,925
Mortgage and Asset-Backed Securities [Member] | Standard & Poor's, CC Rating [Member] | Ambac Assurance Corporation [Member]
Investment [Line Items]
Fair value of securities that include benefit of guarantees provided by financial guarantors	2,519,925	2,216,317
Mortgage and Asset-Backed Securities [Member] | Standard & Poor's, CCC Rating [Member]
Investment [Line Items]
Fair value of securities that include benefit of guarantees provided by financial guarantors		2,216,317
Short-Term [Member] | Standard & Poor's, CC Rating [Member]
Investment [Line Items]
Fair value of securities that include benefit of guarantees provided by financial guarantors	55
Short-Term [Member] | Standard & Poor's, CC Rating [Member] | Ambac Assurance Corporation [Member]
Investment [Line Items]
Fair value of securities that include benefit of guarantees provided by financial guarantors	$ 55
Short-Term [Member] | Standard & Poor's, CCC Rating [Member]
Investment [Line Items]
Fair value of securities that include benefit of guarantees provided by financial guarantors		$ 0