Investments (Additional Information) (Detail) (USD $)	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014
Investment [Line Items]
Overall default probabilities percentage	0.62%
Recovery and prepayment probabilities percentage	2.00%
Discount rate assumption	11.90%
Non-credit related OTTI recognized in other comprehensive income ("OCI")	$ 100,000
Investments available-for-sale book value	217,200,000	212,900,000
Investments held-to-maturity book value	188,700,000	202,400,000
Banks and Financial Institutions
Investment [Line Items]
Trust preferred portfolio Fair Value	1,000,000
Trust preferred portfolio	1,100,000
Government National Mortgage Association Certificates and Obligations, Federal National Mortgage Association Certificates and Obligations, and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Certificates and Obligations [Member] \| Collateralized Mortgage Obligations [Member]
Investment [Line Items]
Mortgage-backed portfolio	160,800,000	160,800,000
Government National Mortgage Association Certificates and Obligations, Federal National Mortgage Association Certificates and Obligations, and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Certificates and Obligations [Member] \| Mortgage Backed Securities [Member]
Investment [Line Items]
Mortgage-backed portfolio	$ 185,500,000	$ 185,500,000

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Rate at which investment are expected to prepay principal balances, used as an input to measure fair value.

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Percentage of investment will not be repaid and instead default, used as an input to measure fair value.

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Investments, Fair Value Assumptions, Discount Rate

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Trust Preferred Securities

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The fair value as of the balance sheet date of firm holdings in mortgages, mortgage backed securities (investment instruments that represent ownership of an undivided interest in a group of mortgages, where principal and interest from the individual mortgages are used to pay investors' principal and interest on the mortgage backed security) and asset-backed securities that are primarily paid from the cash flows of a discrete pool of receivables or other financial assets (such as credit-card receivables), either fixed or revolving, that by their terms convert into cash within a finite time period. Includes both pledged (to counterparties as collateral for financing transactions) and unpledged holdings.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 940

-SubTopic 320

-Section 45

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The carrying amount as of the date of the latest financial statement presented of mortgage-related securities classified as available for sale or held for investment which are owned but transferred to another party to serve as collateral to partially or fully secure a debt obligation, repurchase agreement or other current or potential obligation, and for which the transferee does not have the right by contract or custom to sell or re-pledge them to an unrelated party.

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-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 860

-SubTopic 30

-Section 50

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