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Benefit Plans For Employees

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2011

Benefit Plans For Employees [Abstract]

Benefit Plans For Employees

Note 17.

Benefit Plans for Employees

The Company maintains qualified and non-qualified defined contribution retirement plans for its salaried employees, which provide for a partial match of employee savings under the plans and for discretionary retirement contributions based on employee compensation. With respect to the Company's non-qualified defined contribution retirement plan for salaried employees, all pre-tax contributions, matching contributions and discretionary retirement contributions (and the earnings therein) are held in a Rabbi Trust and are subject to the claims of the general, unsecured creditors of the Company. All post-tax contributions are held in a secular trust and are not subject to the claims of the creditors of the Company. The fair value of the assets held in the Rabbi Trust and the liability to plan participants as of December 31, 2011 and 2010, totaling approximately $26.3 million and $26.0 million, respectively, were included in other assets and other liabilities in the Company's consolidated balance sheets.

Company contributions under the defined contribution plans associated with the Company's continuing operations were approximately $9.1 million in 2011, $8.1 million in 2010 and $6.6 million in 2009. Company contributions under the defined contribution plans associated with the Company's discontinued operations were approximately $0.1 million in both 2011 and 2010 and $0.3 million in 2009.

Description of the terms and benefits provided by the employer's defined contribution plans. A defined contribution plan provides benefits in return for services rendered, provides an individual account for each participant, and has terms that specify how contributions to the individual's account are to be determined rather than the amount of benefits the individual is to receive. Under a defined contribution pension plan, the benefits a participant will receive depend solely on the amount contributed to the participant's account, the returns earned on investments of those contributions, and forfeitures of other participants' benefits that may be allocated to such participant's account. A description of the plan(s) including employee groups covered, the basis for determining contributions, and the nature and effects of significant matters affecting comparability of information for all periods presented.

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