Statutory Reporting and Insurance Subsidiaries Dividend Restrictions

The Company's insurance subsidiaries may pay dividends to the Company, subject to statutory restrictions. Payments in excess of statutory restrictions (extraordinary dividends) to the Company are permitted only with prior approval of the insurance departments of the applicable state of domicile. All dividends from subsidiaries were eliminated in the Consolidated Financial Statements. The following table sets forth the dividends paid to the Company by its insurance company subsidiaries for the following periods:



	For the Years Ended December 31,
	2012		2011
Ordinary dividends	$	2,783	$	6,956
Extraordinary dividends	—		830
Total dividends	$	2,783	$	7,786

The following table details the combined statutory capital and surplus of the Company's insurance subsidiaries, the required minimum statutory capital and surplus, as required by the laws of the states in which they are domiciled and the combined amount available for ordinary dividends of the Company's insurance subsidiaries for the following periods:



	At December 31,
	2012		2011
Combined statutory capital and surplus of the Company's insurance subsidiaries	$	53,885	$	50,230

Required minimum statutory capital and surplus	$	15,300	$	15,300

Amount available for ordinary dividends of the Company's insurance subsidiaries	$	4,500	$	2,344

Under the NAIC's Risk-Based Capital Act of 1995, a company's RBC is calculated by applying certain risk factors to various asset, claim and reserve items. If a company's adjusted surplus falls below calculated RBC thresholds, regulatory intervention or oversight is required. The insurance subsidiaries' RBC levels, as calculated in accordance with the NAIC's RBC instructions, exceeded all RBC thresholds as of December 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively.