Investments - Additional Information (Detail) (USD $) In Millions, unless otherwise specified	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2013	Dec. 31, 2012
Investment [Line Items]
Overall default probabilities percentage	0.48%
Recovery and prepayment probabilities percentage	2.00%
Discount rate assumption	12.70%
Pooled trust preferred security incurred credit-related other-than-temporary impairment ("OTTI")	$ 0.3
Investments available-for-sale book value	189.2	195.4
Investments held-to-maturity book value	168.9	155.5
Banks and Financial Institutions
Investment [Line Items]
Trust preferred portfolio Fair Value	1.4
Trust preferred portfolio	1.7
Government National Mortgage Association Certificates and Obligations (GNMA)
Investment [Line Items]
Mortgage-backed portfolio	219.1
Government National Mortgage Association Certificates and Obligations (GNMA) \| Federal Home Loan Mortgage and Federal National Mortgage Association
Investment [Line Items]
Mortgage-backed portfolio	$ 253.2

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Investments, Fair Value Assumptions, Discount Rate

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Trust Preferred Securities

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Trust Preferred Securities Fair Value

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Rate at which loans or a loan portfolio are expected to prepay principal balances, used as an input to measure fair value.

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-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 820

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 2

-Subparagraph (bbb)

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

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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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-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 940

-SubTopic 320

-Section 45

-Paragraph 2

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This item represents reductions in the cumulative amount of credit losses recognized in earnings for an other than temporary impairment (OTTI) of a debt security because of the sale of impaired securities during the period.

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-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 320

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 8

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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

-Paragraph 1A

-Subparagraph (b)(1)(i)

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The carrying amount as of the date of the latest financial statement presented of mortgage-related securities classified as held to maturity 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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