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Amount of annualized premium or other contractual used to determine the level of cession under a reinsurance agreement.

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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.

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For an entity that discloses a concentration risk in relation to quantitative amount, which serves as the "benchmark" (or denominator) in the equation, this concept represents the concentration percentage derived from the division.

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Amount per life of risk undertaken originally by insurer that is not ceded to reinsurer.

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Amount per policy of risk undertaken originally by insurer that is not ceded to reinsurer.

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Amount per life of risk ceded to reinsurer in excess of risk undertaken originally by insurer that is not ceded to reinsurer.

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Amount per policy of risk ceded to reinsurer in excess of risk undertaken originally by insurer that is not ceded to reinsurer.

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Percentage of risk ceded to reinsurer in excess of risk undertaken originally by insurer that is not ceded to reinsurer.

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Percentage of risk undertaken originally by insurer ceded to reinsurer.

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