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LITIGATION (Details)	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2018 case
Contingent Auto Liability Claim
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Contingency auto liability cases (case)	12

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Loss Contingency, Number of Auto Liability Cases

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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