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Reinsurance (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2012
Reinsurance/Insurance Operations [Abstract] |
Reinsurance arrangements |
|  | Three Months Ended September 30, 2012 |  |  | Nine Months Ended September 30, 2012 |
|  | Premiums Written |  |  | Premiums Earned |  |  | Loss and Loss Adjustment Expenses |  |  | Premiums Written |  |  | Premiums Earned |  |  | Loss and Loss Adjustment Expenses |
Direct |  | $ | 192,986 |  |  | $ | 191,225 |  |  | $ | 68,286 |  |  | $ | 605,557 |  |  | $ | 556,685 |  |  | $ | 177,425 |
Ceded |  |  | (132,776 | ) |  |  | (131,713 | ) |  |  | (31,985 | ) |  |  | (398,643 | ) |  |  | (392,839 | ) |  |  | (85,513 | )
Net |  | $ | 60,210 |  |  | $ | 59,512 |  |  | $ | 36,301 |  |  | $ | 206,914 |  |  | $ | 163,846 |  |  | $ | 91,912 |
|  | Three Months Ended September 30, 2011 |  |  | Nine Months Ended September 30, 2011 |
|  | Premiums Written |  |  | Premiums Earned |  |  | Loss and Loss Adjustment Expenses |  |  | Premiums Written |  |  | Premiums Earned |  |  | Loss and Loss Adjustment Expenses |
Direct |  | $ | 171,370 |  |  | $ | 175,858 |  |  | $ | 59,789 |  |  | $ | 558,024 |  |  | $ | 510,579 |  |  | $ | 166,280 |
Ceded |  |  | (123,984 | ) |  |  | (126,224 | ) |  |  | (30,446 | ) |  |  | (393,673 | ) |  |  | (363,417 | ) |  |  | (84,900 | )
Net |  | $ | 47,386 |  |  | $ | 49,634 |  |  | $ | 29,343 |  |  | $ | 164,351 |  |  | $ | 147,162 |  |  | $ | 81,380 |
Prepaid reinsurance premiums and reinsurance recoverables |
|  | As of September 30, 2012 |  |  | As of December 31, 2011 |
Prepaid reinsurance premiums |  | $ | 248,899 |  |  | $ | 243,095 |
Reinsurance recoverable on unpaid losses and LAE |  | $ | 74,160 |  |  | $ | 88,002 |
Reinsurance recoverable on paid losses |  |  | 6,640 |  |  |  | (2,296 | )
Reinsurance receivables, net |  |  | 30,528 |  |  |  | 55,205 |
Reinsurance recoverables and receivables |  | $ | 111,328 |  |  | $ | 140,911 |

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