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Employee Benefit Plan
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2013
Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract]  
Employee Benefit Plan
Employee Benefit Plan
The Company sponsors a cash balance defined benefit pension plan that covers substantially all of its salaried employees (the “Pension Plan”). In November 2012, the Board of Directors approved the termination of the Company’s Pension Plan. In March 2013, the Pension Plan was frozen until the final regulatory approvals are received and the Pension Plan’s assets will be distributed and used to pay excise taxes with any remaining assets to revert back to the Company. Upon settlement, the Company expects to recognize further estimated losses that will significantly affect the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations once the final regulatory approvals are received and the Pension Plan assets are distributed, which we expect to occur in 2014 or 2015. However, we can not provide any assurance as to the timing of these matters.
A summary of the components of net periodic pension cost is as follows:
 
Three Months Ended 
 September 30,
 
Nine Months Ended 
 September 30,
 
2013
 
2012
 
2013
 
2012
Service cost
$

 
$
230

 
$
224

 
$
655

Interest cost
172

 
164

 
484

 
554

Expected return on assets
138

 
(553
)
 
(580
)
 
(1,778
)
Amortization of prior service costs

 
110

 

 
328

Amortization of loss
50

 
5

 
248

 
5

Settlement charges
212

 
147

 
606

 
1,110

Net periodic pension cost
$
572

 
$
103

 
$
982

 
$
874


During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2013 and 2012, settlements of future obligations occurred that required the Pension Plan assets and projected benefit obligation to be remeasured. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2013, the Company recorded a net gain of $0.1 million and $2.1 million, respectively, from the remeasurement, which was recorded in Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012, the Company recorded a net loss of $0.3 million from remeasurement, which was recorded in Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax.
The following table includes the assumptions used to develop net periodic pension cost and benefit obligations:
 
September 30,
2013
 
December 31,
2012
 
September 30
2012
 
December 31,
2011
Discount rate
4.15%
 
3.27%
 
3.19%
 
4.19%
Expected long term rate on plan assets
—%
 
4.75%
 
4.75%
 
5.00%
Rate of compensation increase
N/A
 
N/A
 
3.75%
 
3.75%

During the nine months ended September 30, 2013, the Pension Plan transferred the majority of its investments held in plan assets to U.S treasury securities and the expected long term rate on plan assets was reduced accordingly.