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Related Party Transactions
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2024
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions Disclosure [Text Block] Related Party Transactions
The Company engages in certain related party transactions in the normal course of business at arm's length.

Insurance-Linked Securities

Within the Company's insurance-linked securities operations, the Company provides investment and insurance management services through Nephila Holdings Ltd. (together with its subsidiaries, Nephila). Nephila serves as the investment manager to several Bermuda based private funds (the Nephila Funds). To provide access for the Nephila Funds to a variety of insurance-linked securities in the property catastrophe, climate and specialty markets, Nephila also acts as an insurance manager to certain Bermuda Class 3 and 3A reinsurance companies, Lloyd's Syndicate 2357 and Lloyd's Syndicate 2358 (collectively, the Nephila Reinsurers). Nephila receives management fees for investment and insurance management services provided through its insurance-linked securities operations, and, for certain funds, incentive fees based on their annual performance. For the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, total revenues attributed to unconsolidated entities managed by Nephila were $19.2 million and $9.8 million, respectively.

Through the Company's program services and other fronting operations, the Company has programs with Nephila through which the Company writes insurance policies that are fully ceded to the Nephila Reinsurers. Through these programs, Nephila utilizes certain of the Company's licensed insurance companies to write U.S. catastrophe-exposed property and specialty risks that are then ceded to the Nephila Reinsurers. For the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, gross premiums written through the Company's program services and other fronting platforms on behalf of Nephila were $353.1 million and $236.9 million, respectively, all of which were ceded to the Nephila Reinsurers.

As of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, reinsurance recoverables on the consolidated balance sheets included $785.9 million and $794.3 million, respectively, due from the Nephila Reinsurers. Under its programs with the Nephila Reinsurers, the Company bears underwriting risk for annual aggregate agreement year losses in excess of a limit the Company believes is unlikely to be exceeded. To the extent losses under these programs exceed the prescribed limits, the Company is obligated to pay such losses to the cedents without recourse to the Nephila Reinsurers. While the Company believes losses under these programs are unlikely, those losses, if incurred, could be material to the Company's consolidated results of operations and financial condition.

The Company has also entered into other assumed and ceded reinsurance transactions with the Nephila Reinsurers in the normal course of business, which are not material to the Company's consolidated financial statements.

Hagerty

The Company holds a minority ownership interest in Hagerty, which operates primarily as a managing general agent and also includes Hagerty Reinsurance Limited (Hagerty Re), a Bermuda Class 3 reinsurance company. Through the Company's underwriting operations, the Company underwrites insurance for Hagerty, a portion of which is ceded to Hagerty Re. The amounts attributed to these arrangements are summarized in the following table.

Three Months Ended March 31,
(dollars in thousands)20242023
Gross written premiums attributable to Hagerty
$198,282 $164,971 
Premiums ceded to Hagerty Re
$152,685 $124,628 

As of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, reinsurance recoverables on the consolidated balance sheets included $225.3 million and $214.8 million, respectively, due from Hagerty Re.