Insurer's Surplus requirements, , are dollar amounts of highly liquid assets, set aside before issuing policies, to cover the layer of operating losses between PLREs of 0.8500 and [i.e. = Max(0,( - 0.8500) * Earned Premiums * Size)]. Table 1 Row 9 shows that = = $0.00 because (0.8500) = (0.8500) = 1.0000. = $200,000,000 at = 0.9000, = $149,736,660 and = $56,000,000 because = 1.22434 and = 2.2500.