Employee Benefit Plans

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

Employee Benefit Plans [Abstract]

Employee Benefit Plans

Note 10 – Employee Benefit Plans

Net periodic cost related to the Company's defined benefit pension and supplemental benefit plans during the three months ended March 31, 2012 and 2011 includes the following components:

	For the Three Months Ended March 31,
(in thousands)	2012			2011
Expense:
Service cost	$	428		$	557
Interest cost		7,434			7,578
Expected return on plan assets		(3,787	)		(3,845	)
Amortization of prior service credit		(1,096	)		(1,096	)
Amortization of net loss		6,825			6,514
	$	9,804		$	9,708

The Company contributed $7.1 million to the defined benefit pension and supplemental benefit plans during the three months ended March 31, 2012, and expects to contribute an additional $27.2 million during the remainder of 2012. These contributions include both those required by funding regulations as well as discretionary contributions necessary to provide benefit payments to participants of certain of the Company's non-qualified supplemental benefit plans.