Segment Reporting Disclosure [Text Block] | 20. Segment Information The Company is engaged in the sale of property and casualty insurance products and has organized its principal operations into two types of insurance businesses: commercial lines and personal lines. Within these two insurance businesses, the Company offers various insurance products. Such insurance businesses are engaged in underwriting and marketing insurance coverages, and administering claims processing for such policies. The Company defines its operating segments as components of the business where separate financial information is available and used by the chief operating decision-making group in deciding how to allocate resources to its segments and in assessing its performance. In assessing performance of its operating segments, the Company’s chief operating decision-making group, comprised of key senior executives, review a number of financial measures including gross written premiums, net earned premiums, and loss and loss adjustment expenses, net of reinsurance recoveries. The primary measure used for making decisions about resources to be allocated to an operating segment and assessing its performance is segment underwriting gain or loss which is defined as segment revenues, consisting of net earned premiums and other income, less segment expenses, consisting of losses and loss adjustment expenses, policy acquisition costs and other underwriting and operating expenses of the operating segments. Other underwriting and operating expenses include primarily compensation and related benefits for underwriting personnel, licensing of policy issuance and claims systems, rent and utilities. The Company markets, distributes and sells its insurance products through its own insurance agencies and a network of independent agents. All of the Company’s insurance activities are conducted in the United States with a concentration of activity in Florida, Michigan and Pennsylvania. For the six months ended June 30, 2015 and 2014, gross written premiums attributable to these three states were 56% and 61%, respectively, of the Company’s total gross written premiums. The commercial lines and personal lines accounted for approximately 68% and 32%, respectively, of net earned premiums for the six months ended June 30, 2015, and approximately 55% and 45%, respectively, of net earned premiums for the six months ended June 30, 2014. Other income includes installment and policy fees charged to policyholders and commissions income from third party insurers on policies written through our agencies relating to our product lines. The following provides a description of the Company’s two insurance businesses and product offerings within these businesses: ● Commercial lines—offers coverage for property, liability, automobile and other miscellaneous coverage primarily to owner-operated small and mid-sized businesses, professional organizations and hospitality businesses such as restaurant, bars and taverns. Included within commercial insurance business are the following key products: ● Commercial multi-peril (“CMP”)—provides property and liability coverages in a package to the policyholder. ● Other liability—provides coverage for general liability and liquor liability on an individual policy. ● Automobile—provides coverage for commercial automobiles for businesses that supply to their employees company-owned vehicles. ● Other—includes primarily workers’ compensation coverage in narrowly selected areas. ● Personal lines—offers coverage for low-value dwelling, wind-exposed homeowners and automobile. Included within personal insurance business are the following key products: ● Low-value dwelling (previously known as Midwest homeowners)—provides coverage for nonstandard homeowners insurance and dwelling fire insurance products (property and basic perils coverage only) located primarily in Indiana and Illinois. ● Wind-exposed homeowners (previously known as Specialty homeowners)—provides coverage in niche homeowners markets that have special risk characteristics, including coastal exposure to wind, located primarily in Florida, Hawaii and Texas. ● Automobile—provides coverage for nonstandard private passenger automobile insurance policies primarily for individuals located in Florida and Illinois. Both the Florida and Illinois books of nonstandard auto business are currently in run-off. The Company renamed Midwest homeowners to low-value dwelling as the Company began to enter into other geographic areas in the U.S. which target the niche, low-value dwelling market that is similar to the product offering within Midwest homeowners. The Company also renamed specialty homeowners to wind-exposed homeowners to better describe the underlying business. In addition to the reportable segments, the Company maintains a Corporate and Other category to reconcile segment results to the consolidated totals. The Corporate and Other category includes: (i) corporate operating expenses such as salaries and related benefits of the Company’s executive management team and finance and information technology personnel, and other corporate headquarters expenses, (ii) interest expense on the Company’s senior debt obligations; (iii) depreciation and amortization on property and equipment, and (iv) all investment income activity. All investment income activity is reported within net investment income and net realized investment gains on the consolidated statements of operations. The Company’s assets on the consolidated balance sheet are not allocated to the reportable segments. The following tables present information by reportable segment: Commercial Lines Personal Lines Homeowners Three Months Ended CMP Other Auto Other Total Low- value Wind- Auto Total Corporate Total Gross written premiums $ 10,765 $ 4,297 $ 2,608 $ 656 $ 18,326 $ 1,460 $ 2,991 $ 282 $ 4,733 $ — $ 23,059 Net written premiums $ 6,855 $ 3,474 $ 1,762 $ 433 $ 12,524 $ 984 $ 2,152 $ 282 $ 3,418 $ — $ 15,942 Net earned premiums $ 6,465 $ 1,940 $ 1,751 $ 514 $ 10,670 $ 1,391 $ 2,194 $ 860 $ 4,445 $ — $ 15,115 Other income 271 48 6 — 325 52 32 24 108 47 480 Segment revenue 6,736 1,988 1,757 514 10,995 1,443 2,226 884 4,553 47 15,595 Loss and loss adjustment expenses, net 3,427 479 1,378 193 5,477 1,254 1,276 969 3,499 — 8,976 Policy acquisition costs 1,145 339 372 61 1,917 384 189 149 722 — 2,639 Operating expenses 869 189 102 51 1,211 84 120 6 210 2,198 3,619 Segment expense 5,441 1,007 1,852 305 8,605 1,722 1,585 1,124 4,431 2,198 15,234 Segment underwriting gain (loss) $ 1,295 $ 981 $ (95 ) $ 209 $ 2,390 $ (279 ) $ 641 $ (240 ) $ 122 (2,151 ) 361 Investment income 469 469 Net realized investment gains 87 87 Interest expense (239 ) (239 ) Income (loss) before income taxes $ (1,834 ) $ 678 Commercial Lines Personal Lines Homeowners Three Months Ended CMP Other Auto Other Total Low- value Wind- Auto Total Corporate Total Gross written premiums $ 8,845 $ 2,137 $ 2,837 $ 652 $ 14,471 $ 2,069 $ 639 $ 1,822 $ 4,530 $ — $ 19,001 Net written premiums $ 7,478 $ 1,929 $ 2,692 $ 595 $ 12,694 $ 1,775 $ 401 $ 1,822 $ 3,998 $ — $ 16,692 Net earned premiums $ 5,740 $ 1,330 $ 964 $ 356 $ 8,390 $ 1,572 $ 806 $ 3,189 $ 5,567 $ — 13,957 Other income 186 38 8 — 232 107 — 154 261 12 505 Segment revenue 5,926 1,368 972 356 8,622 1,679 806 3,343 5,828 12 14,462 Loss and loss adjustment expenses, net 3,262 261 829 270 4,622 2,147 488 2,429 5,064 — 9,686 Policy acquisition costs 1,458 340 243 72 2,113 485 267 654 1,406 — 3,519 Operating expenses 976 203 118 59 1,356 111 84 303 498 1,359 3,213 Segment expense 5,696 804 1,190 401 8,091 2,743 839 3,386 6,968 1,359 16,418 Segment underwriting gain (loss) $ 230 $ 564 $ (218 ) $ (45 ) $ 531 $ (1,064 ) $ (33 ) $ (43 ) $ (1,140 ) (1,347 ) (1,956 ) Investment income 282 282 Net realized investment gains 81 81 Interest expense (123 ) (123 ) Income (loss) before income taxes $ (1,107 ) $ (1,716 ) Commercial Lines Personal Lines Homeowners Six Months Ended CMP Other Auto Other Total Low- value Wind- Auto Total Corporate Total Gross written premiums $ 20,427 $ 6,595 $ 5,284 $ 1,762 $ 34,068 $ 3,048 $ 6,058 $ 1,089 $ 10,195 $ — $ 44,263 Net written premiums $ 12,673 $ 4,900 $ 3,577 $ 1,228 $ 22,378 $ 1,995 $ 4,146 $ 1,089 $ 7,230 $ — $ 29,608 Net earned premiums $ 12,591 $ 3,162 $ 3,361 $ 1,044 $ 20,158 $ 2,879 $ 4,289 $ 2,282 $ 9,450 $ — $ 29,608 Other income 577 86 11 — 674 115 41 80 236 59 969 Segment revenue 13,168 3,248 3,372 1,044 20,832 2,994 4,330 2,362 9,686 59 30,577 Loss and loss adjustment expenses, net 7,207 933 2,443 211 10,794 2,126 2,158 2,468 6,752 — 17,546 Policy acquisition costs 2,264 547 702 142 3,655 778 414 387 1,579 — 5,234 Operating expenses 1,901 443 216 123 2,683 185 235 203 623 4,005 7,311 Segment expense 11,372 1,923 3,361 476 17,132 3,089 2,807 3,058 8,954 4,005 30,091 Segment underwriting gain (loss) $ 1,796 $ 1,325 $ 11 $ 568 $ 3,700 $ (95 ) $ 1,523 $ (696 ) $ 732 (3,946 ) 486 Investment income 955 955 Net realized investment gains 232 232 Interest expense (483 ) (483 ) Income (loss) before income taxes $ (3,242 ) $ 1,190 Commercial Lines Personal Lines Homeowners Six Months Ended CMP Other Auto Other Total Low- value Wind- Auto Total Corporate Total Gross written premiums $ 15,111 $ 4,004 $ 4,247 $ 1,086 $ 24,448 $ 4,045 $ 3,061 $ 5,114 $ 12,220 $ — $ 36,668 Net written premiums $ 13,103 $ 3,671 $ 4,050 $ 989 $ 21,813 $ 3,710 $ 2,764 $ 5,114 $ 11,588 $ — $ 33,401 Net earned premiums $ 10,250 $ 2,455 $ 1,437 $ 610 $ 14,752 $ 2,955 $ 1,474 $ 7,451 $ 11,880 $ — $ 26,632 Other income 415 78 12 — 505 210 — 313 523 9 1,037 Segment revenue 10,665 2,533 1,449 610 15,257 3,165 1,474 7,764 12,403 9 27,669 Loss and loss adjustment expenses, net 8,153 696 965 431 10,245 3,480 748 5,789 10,017 — 20,262 Policy acquisition costs 2,685 638 376 107 3,806 879 494 1,571 2,944 — 6,750 Operating expenses 1,730 408 192 104 2,434 209 158 733 1,100 2,573 6,107 Segment expense 12,568 1,742 1,533 642 16,485 4,568 1,400 8,093 14,061 2,573 33,119 Segment underwriting gain (loss) $ (1,903 ) $ 791 $ (84 ) $ (32 ) $ (1,228 ) $ (1,403 ) $ 74 $ (329 ) $ (1,658 ) (2,564 ) (5,450 ) Investment income 502 502 Net realized investment gains 172 172 Interest expense (252 ) (252 ) Income (loss) before income taxes $ (2,142 ) $ (5,028 ) In January 2015, the Company notified its insurance regulator in the State of Florida of its intent to stop writing nonstandard personal automobile policies. The Company discontinued offering and writing new policies on January 27, 2015, but will continue to service existing policies, pay claims and perform other administrative services as needed until the run-off of the claims on such policies is complete. In early 2014, the Company discontinued writing nonstandard personal automobile business in Illinois. The Company has no plans to provide or write this insurance coverage in the future. By the end of May 2015, this exited product line was solely in run-off. The Company received approval to discontinue its offering of personal automobile insurance policies from the insurance regulators in April 2015, and had ceased all writings by June 1, 2015. As of June 30, 2015, the Company had 1,268 automobile policies in force. The personal automobile product line contributed $860 and $3,189 to net earned premiums and $(240) and $(43) to income (loss) before income taxes for the three months ended June 30, 2015 and 2014, respectively, and $2,282 and $7,451 to net earned premiums, and $(696) and $(329) to income (loss) before income taxes for the six months ended June 30, 2015 and 2014, respectively. The decision to stop writing personal automobile policies is the result of the Company’s change in strategic positioning and its desire to increase its personal homeowners product line and pursue existing commercial line opportunities. |