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Related Party Transactions - Payments Made by Company to Downes and Associates (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014	Dec. 31, 2013
Downes and Associates [Member]
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Payments made by the company to related party			$ 477
SPC Global RE Advisors LLC [Member]
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Payments made by the company to related party	$ 90	$ 120	$ 68

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- Definition

Expenses recognized resulting from transactions (excluding transactions that are eliminated in consolidated or combined financial statements) with related party.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 850
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (c)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6457730&loc=d3e39549-107864

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