New Accounting Guidance	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2012
New Accounting Guidance [Abstract]
New Accounting Guidance	Note 2 - New Accounting Guidance In May 2011, new guidance was issued regarding fair value measurement. The guidance in the new standard is intended to harmonize the fair value measurement and disclosure requirements for accounting principles generally accepted in the United States ("GAAP") and International Financial Reporting Standards. Many of the changes in the standard represent clarifications to existing guidance, but the standard also includes some new guidance and new required disclosures. Our disclosures reflect the requirements of this new guidance beginning with the first quarter of 2012. In June 2011, as amended in December 2011, new guidance was issued requiring entities to present net income and other comprehensive income in either a single continuous statement or in two separate, but consecutive, statements of net income and other comprehensive income. The option to present items of other comprehensive income in the statement of changes in equity is eliminated. Our disclosures reflect the requirements of this new guidance beginning with the first quarter of 2012. Other provisions of this guidance regarding reclassifications out of other comprehensive income have been delayed. In October 2011, new guidance was issued on accounting for costs associated with acquiring or renewing insurance contracts. The new guidance changed how insurance companies account for acquisition costs, particularly in determining what costs are deferrable. The new requirements were effective beginning in the first quarter of 2012 and we have adopted them prospectively. Under the new guidance in effect, for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012, we deferred $2.6 million and $6.7 million of acquisition costs, respectively. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011, we deferred $1.2 million and $3.9 million in acquisition costs, respectively, and under the new guidance we would have deferred $1.8 million and $5.2 million of such costs, respectively. Acquisition costs are not deferred on a statutory accounting basis; therefore this new guidance has no impact on our statutory capital.

Note 2 - New Accounting Guidance

In May 2011, new guidance was issued regarding fair value measurement. The guidance in the new standard is intended to harmonize the fair value measurement and disclosure requirements for accounting principles generally accepted in the United States ("GAAP") and International Financial Reporting Standards. Many of the changes in the standard represent clarifications to existing guidance, but the standard also includes some new guidance and new required disclosures. Our disclosures reflect the requirements of this new guidance beginning with the first quarter of 2012.

In June 2011, as amended in December 2011, new guidance was issued requiring entities to present net income and other comprehensive income in either a single continuous statement or in two separate, but consecutive, statements of net income and other comprehensive income. The option to present items of other comprehensive income in the statement of changes in equity is eliminated. Our disclosures reflect the requirements of this new guidance beginning with the first quarter of 2012. Other provisions of this guidance regarding reclassifications out of other comprehensive income have been delayed.

In October 2011, new guidance was issued on accounting for costs associated with acquiring or renewing insurance contracts. The new guidance changed how insurance companies account for acquisition costs, particularly in determining what costs are deferrable. The new requirements were effective beginning in the first quarter of 2012 and we have adopted them prospectively. Under the new guidance in effect, for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012, we deferred $2.6 million and $6.7 million of acquisition costs, respectively. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011, we deferred $1.2 million and $3.9 million in acquisition costs, respectively, and under the new guidance we would have deferred $1.8 million and $5.2 million of such costs, respectively. Acquisition costs are not deferred on a statutory accounting basis; therefore this new guidance has no impact on our statutory capital.