Income Taxes (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

Income Taxes [Abstract]

Differences between our effective tax rate for financial statement purposes and the Federal Statutory rate

	Three months ended March 31,
	2015			2014
Statutory tax rate		35.0	%		35.0	%
Federal tax at statutory rate	$	52,790		$	54,240
Nontaxable municipal bond interest and dividend received deduction		(9,752)			(8,927)
State income taxes, net of federal tax benefit		717			834
Foreign income taxes		9,951			7,226
Foreign tax credit		(9,776)			(7,226)
Indefinitely reinvested earnings of foreign subsidiaries		(9,134)			-
Uncertain tax positions (net of federal tax benefit on state
positions: $93 in 2015 and $144 in 2014)		2,234			320
Other, net		881			594
Income tax expense	$	37,911		$	47,061
Effective tax rate		25.1	%		30.4	%