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Employee Benefit Plans
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2011
Employee Benefit Plans [Abstract]  
Employee Benefit Plans

Note 14 — Employee Benefit Plans

Certain subsidiaries of the Company maintain profit sharing plans for eligible employees providing for annual discretionary contributions to a trust. Eligible employees are full time domestic employees who have completed a certain length of service, as defined, and attained a certain age, as defined. In addition, the plans require the subsidiaries to match from approximately 12% to 100% of voluntary employee contributions to the plans, not to exceed a maximum amount of the employee’s annual salary, ranging from 4% to 6%. Expense for the plans for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, and 2009 totaled $4,943, $4,470, and $4,201, respectively.