RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2011
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS	7) RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS Under its service agreement with AXA Equitable, personnel services, employee benefits, facilities, supplies and equipment are provided to MLOA to conduct its business. The associated costs related to the service agreements are allocated to MLOA based on methods that management believes are reasonable, including a review of the nature of such costs and activities performed to support MLOA. As a result of such allocations, MLOA incurred expenses of $13 million, $39 million, $12 million and $37 million for the third quarter and first nine months of 2011 and of 2010, respectively. At September 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010, MLOA reported a payable to AXA Equitable in connection with its service agreement of $11 million and $8 million, respectively. Various AXA affiliates cede a portion of their life, health and catastrophe insurance business through reinsurance agreements to AXA Global Life (and AXA Cessions in 2009 and prior), AXA affiliated reinsurers. AXA Global Life, in turn, retrocedes a quota share portion of these risks to AXA Equitable and MLOA on a one-year term basis. Premiums and experience refunds earned in third quarter and first nine months of 2011 and 2010 under this arrangement were $($2,000), $115,000, $(58,000) and $233,000, respectively. Claims and expenses paid in the third quarter and first nine months of 2011 and 2010 were $77,000, $121,000, $(44,000) and $130,000, respectively. MLOA ceded new variable life policies on an excess of retention basis with AXA Equitable and reinsured the no lapse guarantee riders through AXA Financial (Bermuda) Ltd. MLOA reported $82,000, $248,000, $87,000 and $265,000 of ceded premiums for the third quarter and first nine months of 2011 and of 2010, respectively. In addition to the AXA Equitable service agreement, MLOA has various other service and investment advisory agreements with affiliates. The expenses incurred by MLOA related to these agreements were $488,000, $1,446,000, $495,000 and $1,498,000 for the third quarter and first nine months of 2011 and of 2010, respectively.

The entire disclosure for related party transactions, including the nature of the relationship(s), a description of the transactions, the amount of the transactions, the effects of any change in the method of establishing the terms of the transaction from the previous period, stated interest rate, expiration date, terms and manner of settlement per the agreement with the related party, and amounts due to or from related parties. If the entity and one or more other entities are under common ownership or management control and this control affects the operating results or financial position, disclosure includes the nature of the control relationship even if there are no transactions between the entities. Disclosure may also include the aggregate amount of current and deferred tax expense for each statement of earnings presented where the entity is a member of a group that files a consolidated tax return, the amount of any tax related balances due to or from affiliates as of the date of each statement of financial position presented, the principal provisions of the method by which the consolidated amount of current and deferred tax expense is allocated to the members of the group and the nature and effect of any changes in that method. Examples of related party transactions include transactions between (a) a parent company and its subsidiary; (b) subsidiaries of a common parent; (c) and entity and its principal owners; and (d) affiliates.

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