Statutory Net Income and Surplus and Dividend Restrictions	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018
Insurance [Abstract]
Statutory Net Income and Surplus and Dividend Restrictions	STATUTORY NET INCOME AND SURPLUS AND DIVIDEND RESTRICTIONS The Company is required to prepare statutory financial statements in accordance with accounting practices prescribed or permitted by the AZDOI. Prescribed statutory accounting practices include publications of the NAIC, as well as state laws, regulations and general administrative rules. Statutory accounting practices ("SAP") primarily differ from U.S. GAAP by charging policy acquisition costs to expense as incurred, establishing future policy benefit liabilities using different actuarial assumptions and valuing investments, deferred taxes and certain assets on a different basis. Statutory net income (loss) of the Company amounted to $(852) million, $3,911 million and $(2,018) million for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016, respectively. Statutory surplus of the Company amounted to $6,396 million and $8,059 million at December 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively. The Company does not utilize prescribed or permitted practices that vary materially from the statutory accounting practices prescribed by the NAIC. The Company is subject to Arizona law, which limits the amount of dividends that insurance companies can pay to stockholders. The maximum dividend, which may be paid in any twelve-month period without notification or approval, is limited to the lesser of 10% of statutory surplus, as of December 31 of the preceding year, or the net gain from operations of the preceding calendar year. Cash dividends may only be paid out of surplus derived from realized net profits. Based on these limitations, the Company is not permitted to pay a dividend in 2019 without prior notification. In December, September, June and March, 2018, the Company paid an extra-ordinary dividend of $225 million, $250 million, $250 million and $300 million, respectively, to its parent, PAI, which was recorded as a return of capital. In December, September, and June, 2017, the Company paid an extra-ordinary dividend of $650 million, $200 million and $100 million, respectively to PAI, which was recorded as a return of capital. In December, 2016, the Company paid an extra-ordinary dividend of $1,140 million to PAI, which was recorded as a return of capital.

STATUTORY NET INCOME AND SURPLUS AND DIVIDEND RESTRICTIONS

The Company is required to prepare statutory financial statements in accordance with accounting practices prescribed or permitted by the AZDOI. Prescribed statutory accounting practices include publications of the NAIC, as well as state laws, regulations and general administrative rules. Statutory accounting practices ("SAP") primarily differ from U.S. GAAP by charging policy acquisition costs to expense as incurred, establishing future policy benefit liabilities using different actuarial assumptions and valuing investments, deferred taxes and certain assets on a different basis.

Statutory net income (loss) of the Company amounted to $(852) million, $3,911 million and $(2,018) million for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016, respectively. Statutory surplus of the Company amounted to $6,396 million and $8,059 million at December 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively.

The Company does not utilize prescribed or permitted practices that vary materially from the statutory accounting practices prescribed by the NAIC.

The Company is subject to Arizona law, which limits the amount of dividends that insurance companies can pay to stockholders. The maximum dividend, which may be paid in any twelve-month period without notification or approval, is limited to the lesser of 10% of statutory surplus, as of December 31 of the preceding year, or the net gain from operations of the preceding calendar year. Cash dividends may only be paid out of surplus derived from realized net profits. Based on these limitations, the Company is not permitted to pay a dividend in 2019 without prior notification.

In December, September, June and March, 2018, the Company paid an extra-ordinary dividend of $225 million, $250 million, $250 million and $300 million, respectively, to its parent, PAI, which was recorded as a return of capital. In December, September, and June, 2017, the Company paid an extra-ordinary dividend of $650 million, $200 million and $100 million, respectively to PAI, which was recorded as a return of capital. In December, 2016, the Company paid an extra-ordinary dividend of $1,140 million to PAI, which was recorded as a return of capital.