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Investments - Summary of Fair Value, Including Financial Guarantee, and Weighted-Average Underlying Rating, Excluding Financial Guarantee, of Insured Securities (Parenthetical) (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Sep. 30, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014
Ambac UK [Member]
Investment [Line Items]
Asset Backed Securities Fair Value Disclosure	$ 78,925	$ 51,395

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Asset-backed securities guaranteed by Ambac UK.

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Line items represent reporting concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef



-Publisher SEC



-Name Regulation S-X (SX)



-Number 210



-Article 12



-Section 12



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