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Accrued Insurance Claims
12 Months Ended
Jul. 25, 2015
Accrued Insurance Claims [Abstract]  
Accrued Insurance Claims
Accrued Insurance Claims
 
For claims within the Company's insurance program, it retains the risk of loss, up to certain limits, for matters related to automobile liability, general liability, workers' compensation, employee group health, and damages associated with underground facility locating services. With regard to losses occurring in fiscal 2013 through fiscal 2015, the Company retains the risk of loss up to $1.0 million on a per occurrence basis for automobile liability, general liability, and workers’ compensation. The Company has maintained this same level of retention for fiscal 2016. These retention amounts are applicable to all of the states in which the Company operates, except with respect to workers’ compensation insurance in two states in which the Company participates in a state-sponsored insurance fund. Aggregate stop-loss coverage for automobile liability, general liability, and workers’ compensation claims is $59.5 million for fiscal 2015 and $84.6 million for fiscal 2016.

The Company is party to a stop-loss agreement for losses under its employee group health plan. With regard to losses occurring in fiscal 2013 through fiscal 2015, the Company retains the risk of loss, on an annual basis, of the first $250,000 of claims per participant as well as the first $550,000 of claim amounts that aggregate across those participants having claims that exceed $250,000. The Company has maintained this same level of retention during fiscal 2016.

The liability for total accrued insurance claims and related processing costs was $87.3 million and $66.0 million as of July 25, 2015 and July 26, 2014, respectively, of which, $51.5 million and $33.8 million, respectively, was long-term and reflected in non-current liabilities in the consolidated financial statements. Insurance recoveries/receivables related to accrued claims as of July 25, 2015 were $9.5 million, of which $0.6 million was included in other current assets and $8.9 million was included in non-current other assets.