Employee Pension Plans

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2012

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 six months ended June 30, 2012 and 2011 (in thousands):

	Three Months								Six Months
	Ended June 30,								Ended June 30,
	2012				2011				2012			2011
Interest cost		$	1,005			$	1,108		$	2,010		$	2,216
Expected return on plan assets			(1,186	)			(1,254	)		(2,372	)		(2,509	)
Amortization of net loss			1,396				992			2,793			1,984
Net periodic benefit cost		$	1,215			$	846		$	2,431		$	1,691

The Company contributed $1.7 million and $1.4 million to its defined benefit pension plan during the six months ended June 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively. The Company expects to contribute an additional $2.2 million to its defined benefit pension plan during the remainder of fiscal year 2012.