Employee Pension Plans

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2011

Employee Pension Plans [Abstract]

Employee Pension Plans

(13) Employee Pension Plans

The Company has a defined benefit pension plan and an unfunded supplemental retirement plan.  Effective September 1, 2004, all benefit accruals under the Company's pension plan were frozen; however, the current vested benefit was preserved.  The pension disclosure presented below includes aggregated amounts for both of the Company's plans. The following table sets forth the net periodic benefit cost by component for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010 (in thousands):

	Three Months								Nine Months
	Ended September 30,								Ended September 30,
	2011				2010				2011				2010
Interest cost		$	1,108			$	1,139			$	3,323			$	3,418
Expected return on plan assets			(1,254	)			(1,241	)			(3,763	)			(3,724	)
Amortization of net loss			992				612				2,976				1,836
Net periodic benefit cost		$	846			$	510			$	2,536			$	1,530

The Company contributed $3.8 million and $5.2 million to its defined benefit pension plan during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011, respectively and $1.2 million and $2.3 million during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2010, respectively.  The Company expects to contribute an additional $0.8 million to its defined benefit pension plan during the remainder of fiscal year 2011.