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Reinsurance (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2018
Reinsurance Disclosures [Abstract] |
Schedule of List Of Direct, Assumed, And Ceded Reinsurance Amounts |
|  | Quarter ended March 31,
($ in thousands) |  | 2018 |  | 2017
Premiums written: |  |  |  |  |  |
Direct |  | $ | 714,234 |  |  | 683,820 |
Assumed |  | 6,271 |  |  | 5,691 |
Ceded |  | (95,945 | ) |  | (90,807 | )
Net |  | $ | 624,560 |  |  | 598,704 |
Premiums earned: |  |  |  |  |  |
Direct |  | $ | 683,733 |  |  | 646,728 |
Assumed |  | 6,124 |  |  | 5,779 |
Ceded |  | (98,029 | ) |  | (91,653 | )
Net |  | $ | 591,828 |  |  | 560,854 |
Loss and loss expenses incurred: |  |  |  |  |  |
Direct |  | $ | 420,916 |  |  | 342,122 |
Assumed |  | 8,004 |  |  | 4,437 |
Ceded |  | (43,979 | ) |  | (29,087 | )
Net |  | $ | 384,941 |  |  | 317,472 |
Schedule of Ceded Premiums and Losses Related to Flood Operations | Ceded premiums and losses related to our participation in the NFIP, under which 100% of our flood premiums, losses, and loss expenses are ceded to the NFIP, are as follows:
Ceded to NFIP |  | Quarter ended March 31,
($ in thousands) |  | 2018 |  | 2017
Ceded premiums written |  | $ | (56,669 | ) |  | (56,334 | )
Ceded premiums earned |  | (58,991 | ) |  | (57,277 | )
Ceded loss and loss expenses incurred |  | (15,719 | ) |  | (6,541 | )

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