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Other Current Assets
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2015
Deferred Costs, Capitalized, Prepaid, and Other Assets Disclosure [Abstract]  
Other Current Assets
4. Other Current Assets

Major classes of other current assets consist of the following (in millions):

 

     December 31,  
     2015      2014  

Premium finance advances and loans

   $ 220.2       $ 232.6   

Accrued supplemental, direct bill and other receivables

     181.1         156.3   

Refined coal production related receivables

     108.1         103.5   

Deferred income taxes - current

     120.8         102.2   

Prepaid expenses

     79.1         72.1   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total other current assets

   $ 709.3       $ 666.7   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

The premium finance loans represent short-term loans which we make to many of our brokerage related clients and other non-brokerage clients to finance their premiums paid to insurance carriers. These premium finance loans are primarily generated by the Crombie/OAMPS operations which were acquired on June 16, 2014. Financing receivables are carried at amortized cost. Given that these receivables are collateralized, carry a fairly rapid delinquency period of only seven days post payment date, and that contractually the underlying insurance policies will be cancelled within one month of the payment due date, there historically has been a minimal risk of not receiving payment and therefore we do not maintain any significant allowance for losses against this balance.