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Share Based Compensation By Share Based Payment Award, Decrease In Reward Rate Of Stock Appreciation Over Performance Period

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Share Based Compensation By Share Based Payment Award, Decrease In Reward Rate Of Stock Appreciation, Total Shareholder Return Percentile of Pre-Established Stock Index

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Share Based Compensation By Share Based Payment Award, Increase In Reward Rate Of Stock Appreciation Over Performance Period

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Sharebased Compensation Arrangement By Sharebased Payment Award Options Nonvested Weighted Average Issuacne Date Fair Value.

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Stock Price, Percent of Initial Price of Stock at Performance Period Start

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The number of positions eliminated during the period as a result of restructuring activities.

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Estimated period over which an employee is required to provide service in exchange for the equity-based payment award, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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-Publisher FASB
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Period which an employee's right to exercise an award is no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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The maximum number of shares (or other type of equity) originally approved (usually by shareholders and board of directors), net of any subsequent amendments and adjustments, for awards under the equity-based compensation plan. As stock or unit options and equity instruments other than options are awarded to participants, the shares or units remain authorized and become reserved for issuance under outstanding awards (not necessarily vested).

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An excess of the fair value of the modified award over the fair value of the award immediately before the modification.

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The number of employees affected by the modification of an equity-based compensation plan.

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Weighted average grant-date fair value of non-vested options outstanding.

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The average discount rate applied to insurance contracts to determine future policy benefits to be paid to or on behalf of policyholders.

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Share-Based Compensation Plans - Narrative (Details) $ / shares in Units, $ in Millions		1 Months Ended	3 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Jul. 11, 2014 employee	Jan. 31, 2016 director	Jun. 30, 2016 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2016 $ / shares shares	Dec. 31, 2015 $ / shares shares	Dec. 31, 2014 employee $ / shares	Dec. 31, 2013 employee
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Number of shares authorized, not yet granted (in shares)				2,400,000.0
Number of employees affected by change in policy \| employee	130
Expense recognized \| $			$ 4.2
Employees
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Deferred compensation plan, stock units held (shares)				234,426	302,041
Director
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Deferred compensation plan, stock units held (shares)				34,200	54,050
Deferred Stock Units
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Vesting period					1 year
The weighted-average grant-date fair value (in dollars per share) \| $ / shares				$ 29.41	$ 32.79	$ 24.70
Restricted Stock Units
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Weighted-average fair value per share at issuance date (in dollars per share) \| $ / shares				$ 29.06	$ 27.09	$ 27.91
Discount percent				3.00%	3.00%	3.00%
Internal Metric Performance Share Units
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Performance period				2 years
Performance Shares PSU
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Number of employees affected by change in policy \| employee						100	100
Performance period					3 years	3 years
Increase percent				25.00%
75th Percentile				75.00%
Reduction percent				25.00%
25th Percentile				25.00%
Performance Shares PSU \| Minimum
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Percent of an employees award				0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
Performance Shares PSU \| Maximum
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Percent of an employees award				200.00%	200.00%	200.00%
PSUs Granted in 2014
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Vesting period				3 years	3 years	3 years
Market Share Units MSU
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Performance period					3 years	3 years
Less than percent of initial price					50.00%
Market Share Units MSU \| Minimum
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Percent of an employees award					0.00%	0.00%
Market Share Units MSU \| Maximum
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Percent of an employees award					150.00%	150.00%
Stock Options \| Employees
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Vesting period				6 years
Stock Options \| Director
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Vesting period				10 years
Executive Leadership and Board of Directors Restructuring \| Severance Costs \| Director
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Number of positions eliminated \| director		2
Share-based Compensation Award, Tranche Three \| Performance Shares PSU \| Maximum
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Performance period				3 years
Share-based Compensation Award, Tranche Two \| Performance Shares PSU \| Maximum
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Performance period				2 years
Share-based Compensation Award, Tranche One \| Performance Shares PSU \| Maximum
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Performance period				1 year