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Statutory Accounting | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2025
Insurance [Abstract] |
Statutory Accounting | Statutory Accounting Our U.S. insurance subsidiaries prepare statutory-basis financial statements in accordance with the accounting practices prescribed or permitted by their respective state’s department of insurance, which is a comprehensive basis of accounting other than GAAP. We did not use any prescribed or permitted statutory accounting practices (individually or in the aggregate) that resulted in reported statutory surplus or capital that was significantly different from the statutory surplus or capital that would have been reported had National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ statutory accounting practices been followed. The following tables present Essent Guaranty’s statutory net income for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 as well as statutory surplus and contingency reserve liability at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024:
|  | Three Months Ended March 31,
(In thousands) |  | 2025 |  | 2024
Essent Guaranty |  |  |  |
Statutory net income |  | $ | 116,265 |  |  | $ | 123,356 |
|  | March 31, |  | December 31,
(In thousands) |  | 2025 |  | 2024
Essent Guaranty |  |  |  |
Statutory surplus |  | $ | 1,110,732 |  |  | $ | 1,101,894 |
Contingency reserve liability |  | 2,531,642 |  |  | 2,492,487 |
Prior to December 31, 2024, Essent Guaranty reinsured that portion of the risk that is in excess of 25% of the mortgage balance with respect to any loan insured prior to April 1, 2019, after consideration of other reinsurance, to Essent Guaranty of PA, Inc. On December 31, 2024, Essent Guaranty and Essent PA entered into a commutation and release agreement in which all outstanding risk in force assumed by Essent PA was commuted back to Essent Guaranty in exchange for cash. Upon the commutation and release, Essent PA surrendered its insurance license and is no longer an insurance subsidiary of Essent Group Ltd. as of December 31, 2024. Net income determined in accordance with statutory accounting practices differs from GAAP. In 2025 and 2024, the more significant differences between net income determined under statutory accounting practices and GAAP for Essent Guaranty relate to policy acquisition costs and income taxes. Under statutory accounting practices, policy acquisition costs are expensed as incurred while such costs are capitalized and amortized to expense over the life of the policy under GAAP. We are eligible for a tax deduction, subject to certain limitations for amounts required by state law or regulation to be set aside in statutory contingency reserves when we purchase non-interest-bearing United States Mortgage Guaranty Tax and Loss Bonds (“T&L Bonds”) issued by the Treasury Department. Under statutory accounting practices, this deduction reduces the tax provision recorded by Essent Guaranty and, as a result, increases statutory net income and surplus as compared to net income and equity determined in accordance with GAAP. At March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the statutory capital of Essent Guaranty, which is defined as the total of statutory surplus and contingency reserves, was in excess of the statutory capital necessary to satisfy its regulatory requirements. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, at the direction of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, maintain coordinated Private Mortgage Insurer Eligibility Requirements, which we refer to as the "PMIERs." The PMIERs represent the standards by which private mortgage insurers are eligible to provide mortgage insurance on loans owned or guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The PMIERs include financial strength requirements incorporating a risk-based framework that require approved insurers to have a sufficient level of liquid assets from which to pay claims. The PMIERs also include enhanced operational performance expectations and define remedial actions that apply should an approved insurer fail to comply with these requirements. In August 2024, the GSEs issued updates to the PMIERs calculation of Available Assets. The updated PMIERs Available Asset requirements are subject to a phased-in implementation beginning with the quarter ending March 31, 2025, and will become fully effective on September 30, 2026. As of March 31, 2025, Essent Guaranty, our GSE-approved mortgage insurance company, was in compliance with the PMIERs. Statement of Statutory Accounting Principles No. 58, Mortgage Guaranty Insurance, requires mortgage insurers to establish a special contingency reserve for statutory accounting purposes included in total liabilities equal to 50% of earned premium for that year. This reserve is required to be maintained for a period of 120 months to protect against the effects of adverse economic cycles. After 120 months, the reserve is released to unassigned funds. In the event an insurer’s loss ratio in any calendar year exceeds 35%, however, the insurer may, after regulatory approval, release from its contingency reserves an amount equal to the excess portion of such losses. During the three months ended March 31, 2025, Essent Guaranty increased its contingency reserve by $39.2 million. During the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, Essent Guaranty released contingency reserves of $34.9 million and $20.4 million, respectively, to unassigned funds upon completion of the 120 month holding period. Under The Insurance Act 1978, as amended, and related regulations of Bermuda (the "Insurance Act"), Essent Re is required to annually prepare statutory financial statements and a statutory financial return in accordance with the financial reporting provisions of the Insurance Act, which is a basis other than GAAP. The Insurance Act also requires that Essent Re maintain minimum share capital of $1 million and must ensure that the value of its general business assets exceeds the amount of its general business liabilities by an amount greater than the prescribed minimum solvency margins and enhanced capital requirement pertaining to its general business. At March 31, 2025, all such requirements were met. Essent Re's statutory capital and surplus was $1.8 billion as of March 31, 2025 and $1.8 billion as of December 31, 2024. Essent Re's statutory net income was $79.5 million and $82.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Statutory capital and surplus as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 and statutory net income in the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 determined in accordance with statutory accounting practices were not significantly different than the amounts determined under GAAP.

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