Summary Information
This is the home page of the US GAAP - Insurance Entities Taxonomy.  Below is summary information for this taxonomy:

Release Type	Public Working Draft - The public review period will run for 60 days, all comments should be submitted on or before November 19th, 2004. XBRL-US welcomes all feedback on the taxonomies. Comments should be sent to bhomer@aicpa.org.
XBRL version	XBRL Specification 2.1 dated 2003-12-31
Status	Acknowledged
Date issued	2004-08-15 (15 August 2004)
Issued by	XBRL-US
Name	US GAAP - Insurance Entities
Description	This financial reporting taxonomy is intended to provide detail level accounting terms that will allow insurance entities that conform to US GAAP to tag financial statements in XBRL.
Namespace identifier	http://www.xbrl.org/us/fr/gaap/ins/2004-08-15
Recommended namespace prefix	us-gaap-ins
Relationship to other XBRL taxonomies	This taxonomy imports key elements of the United States (US) Financial Reporting (FR) Taxonomy Framework in order to create an industry-level taxonomy. Taxonomies in the USFR Taxonomy Framework include Accountants Report (USFR-AR), Primary Terms (USFR-PT), Financial Services Terms (USFR-FST), Management Report (USFR-MR), Management Discussion and Analysis (USFR-MDA) and SEC Officers Certification (USFR-SEC-CERT). Click here to view a graphical representation of how this taxonomy fits into the US Financial Reporting Taxonomy Framework
Physical location of taxonomy components	http://www.xbrl.org/us/fr/gaap/ins/2004-08-15/us-gaap-ins-2004-08-15.xsd (Schema) http://www.xbrl.org/us/fr/gaap/ins/2004-08-15/us-gaap-ins-2004-08-15-label.xml (Labels linkbase) http://www.xbrl.org/us/fr/gaap/ins/2004-08-15/us-gaap-ins-2004-08-15-presentation.xml  (Presentation linkbase) http://www.xbrl.org/us/fr/gaap/ins/2004-08-15/us-gaap-ins-2004-08-15-calculation.xml  (Calculation linkbase)
Explanatory notes	HTML, PDF, Word
Printout of taxonomy elements	Presentation Report              PDF, Excel Calculation Report                PDF, Excel Elements Listed by Label       PDF Elements Listed by Name      PDF
Sample instance documents	Note and Disclaimer:  These XBRL documents are presented solely as theoretical examples of XBRL application and should not be used or relied upon for any other purpose.  XBRL-US makes no representation as to their accuracy or completeness, nor that they fairly represent the financial disclosure(s) of any financial reporting entity, public or private.  Further, neither XBRL-US nor its members have audited, reviewed, compiled or performed any other professional service in regard to the XBRL documents referenced below, nor in regard to any electronic document from which such current document was prepared, nor any schemas, linkbases or other meta data included therein or to which they refer.  We offer no opinion about the correctness, completeness, timeliness, accuracy nor any other characteristic of this XBRL document, documents from which it was prepared, nor any schemas, linkbases, or other meta data to which they refer.  Users should find the original document, if such document exists, and read all disclaimers or opinions therein. The companies represented in the instance documents below are fictitious.   ABC Life Insurance Company                    ZIP XYZ Property & Casualty Company            ZIP
All DTS files	ZIP     Note: Also includes "Stand-Alone" taxonomy and the                    above listed ID files.
Guidelines for Taxonomy Review	Reviewer's Guide to Financial Reporting Taxonomies 1.0            HTML, Word

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