Financial Guarantee Insurance Contracts, Net Loss to be Expensed, Present Value

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Amount of losses paid and not yet expensed on financial guaranty insurance contracts, net of ceded amounts.

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Financial Guarantee Insurance Contracts, Salvage and Subrogation Recoveries, Net

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Guarantor Obligations, Net Expected Loss to be Paid After Recoveries for Representations and Warranties

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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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Liability as of the balance sheet date for amounts representing estimated cost of settling unpaid claims under the terms of the underlying insurance policies, less estimated reinsurance recoveries on such claims. This includes an estimate for claims which have been incurred but not reported. Claim adjustment expenses represent the costs estimated to be incurred in the settlement of unpaid claims.

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Contracts Accounted for as Insurance - Reconciliation of Net Expected Loss to be Paid and Expensed (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	Mar. 31, 2022	Dec. 31, 2021	Mar. 31, 2021	Dec. 31, 2020
Guarantor Obligations [Line Items]
Net expected loss to be paid (recovered) - financial guaranty insurance	$ 432	$ 411	$ 472	$ 529
Loss and LAE reserve - financial guaranty insurance contracts, net of reinsurance	(715)	$ (864)
Net expected loss to be expensed	221
Financial Guarantee Insurance And Other Product Line
Guarantor Obligations [Line Items]
Net expected loss to be paid (recovered) - financial guaranty insurance	(383)
Contra-paid, net	21
Salvage and subrogation recoverable	527
Loss and LAE reserve - financial guaranty insurance contracts, net of reinsurance	(710)
Net expected loss to be expensed	$ 221