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Other Expense (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2015
Other Income and Expenses [Abstract] |
Schedule of Other Expense | Other expense consists of:
| Three Months Ended September 30, |  | Nine Months Ended September 30,
($ in millions) | 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2015 |  | 2014
Pension settlement charge | $ | 49.0 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 49.0 |  |  | $ | — |
Executive retirement and related costs | — |  |  | — |  |  | 10.9 |  |  | — |
License costs | — |  |  | 1.2 |  |  | — |  |  | 1.2 |
Development income | (0.3 | ) |  | (0.3 | ) |  | (1.1 | ) |  | (1.2 | )
Contingent consideration costs | 0.5 |  |  | 0.3 |  |  | 0.8 |  |  | 1.0 |
Other items | (0.5 | ) |  | (0.9 | ) |  | (1.5 | ) |  | 0.3 |
| $ | 48.7 |  |  | $ | 0.3 |  |  | $ | 58.1 |  |  | $ | 1.3 |

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