Statutory Capital (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2013

Statutory Capital [Abstract]

Summary of amounts disclosed under statutory accounting practices

The statutory net income, surplus and the contingency reserve liability of the insurance subsidiaries (excluding the non-insurance subsidiaries of our parent company), as well as the surplus contributions made to MGIC and other insurance subsidiaries and dividends paid by MGIC to us, are included below. The surplus amounts included below are the combined surplus of our insurance operations as utilized in our risk-to-capital calculations.

Year Ended						Contingency
December 31,	Net loss			Surplus		Reserve
	(In thousands)
2013	$	(8,046	)	$	1,584,121	$	18,558
2012		(902,878	)		748,592		6,430
2011		(436,277	)		1,657,349		4,104

				Additions to the
		Additions to the		surplus of other insurance
Year Ended		surplus of MGIC from		subsidiaries from			Dividends paid by MGIC
December 31,		parent company funds		parent company funds			to the parent company
	(In thousands)
2013		$	800,000		$	-	$	-
2012			100,000			-		-
2011			200,000			-		-