Employee Pension Plans

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

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 March 31, 2015 and 2014:

		Three Months Ended March 31,
		2015		2014
	(in thousands)
Interest cost	$	1,011	$	1,030
Expected return on plan assets		(1,256)		(1,192)
Amortization of net loss		1,460		1,077
Net periodic benefit cost	$	1,215	$	915

The Company contributed $0.9 million and $0.6 million to its defined benefit pension plan during the three months ended 2015 and 2014, respectively. The Company expects to contribute an additional $1.8 million to its defined benefit pension plan during the remainder of fiscal year 2015.