NOTE 1.
Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies:
First American Financial Corporation (the “Company”), through its subsidiaries, is engaged in the business of providing financial services. The Company consists of the following reportable segments:
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The Company’s title insurance and services segment issues title insurance policies on residential and commercial property in the United States and offers similar or related products and services internationally. This segment also provides closing and/or escrow services; accommodates tax-deferred exchanges of real estate; provides products, services and solutions designed to mitigate risk or otherwise facilitate real estate transactions; maintains, manages and provides access to title plant data and records; provides appraisals and other valuation-related products and services; provides lien release, document custodial and default-related products and services; provides warehouse lending services; subservices mortgage loans; and provides banking, trust and wealth management services. The Company, through its principal title insurance subsidiary and such subsidiary’s affiliates, transacts its title insurance business through a network of direct operations and agents. Through this network, the Company issues policies in the 49 states that permit the issuance of title insurance policies, the District of Columbia and certain United States territories. The Company also offers title insurance, closing services and similar or related products and services, either directly or through third parties in other countries, including Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, South Korea and various other established and emerging markets.
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The Company’s specialty insurance segment sells home warranty products and issues property and casualty insurance policies. The home warranty business provides residential service contracts that cover residential systems, such as heating and air conditioning systems, and certain appliances against failures that occur as the result of normal usage during the coverage period. This business currently operates in 35 states and the District of Columbia. The property and casualty insurance business provides insurance coverage to residential homeowners and renters for liability losses and typical hazards such as fire, theft, vandalism and other types of property damage. During 2020, the Company initiated a plan to exit its property and casualty insurance business. In January 2021, the Company entered into book transfer agreements with two third-party insurers and will seek to non-renew policies that are not transferred. The Company expects the transfers to be completed by the end of the third quarter of 2022.
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In 2021, the Company expanded its corporate segment to include investing in, and management of, its venture investment portfolio. The venture investment portfolio consists primarily of investments in the equity of private venture-stage companies that operate in the real estate and related industries (many of which offer technology-enabled products and services), investments in funds that typically invest in these same types of companies, and a similar investment that has begun trading publicly. The operating results for certain of the Company’s investments in the venture investment portfolio were previously reported within the title insurance and services segment. This change serves to better align the Company’s segment reporting with a comparable change in internal management reporting during 2021. As a result of this change, the Company reclassified $86 million in net investment gains previously reported in the title insurance and services segment in the first half of 2021 to the corporate segment. The Company did not reclassify prior year segment results as amounts were not material. The Company’s corporate segment also consists of certain financing facilities as well as corporate services that support the Company’s bus
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