Statutory Information (Table)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2011

Statutory Information [Abstract]

Statutory Information

(15) Statutory Information 

Our insurance companies file financial statements prepared in accordance with statutory accounting principles prescribed or permitted by domestic or foreign insurance regulatory authorities. The differences between statutory financial statements and financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP vary between domestic and foreign jurisdictions.

Statutory policyholders' surplus and net income, after intercompany eliminations, included in those companies' respective filings with regulatory authorities were as follows:

	2011		2010		2009
Statutory policyholders' surplus	$	2,140,055	$	2,207,977	$	2,103,892
Statutory net income		294,396		387,847		389,037

The statutory surplus of each of our insurance companies is significantly in excess of regulatory risk-based capital requirements.