How do you assess an insurance company's leverage?

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Is it total float/ equity?

what will be a conservative figure, and what's too high?

I was looking at Great Eastern
Their float is about 40 bil vs equity of 4.9 bil

considered 8x leverage????

is there any other leverage ratio to look out for to assess insurance companies?
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