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Accrued Expenses and Other Liabilities (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2012
Accrued Expenses and Other Liabilities |
Schedule of accrued expenses and other liabilities |
|  | December 31, |
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|  | 2012 |  | 2011 |
|  | (in millions) |
Commissions and sales incentives payable |  | $ | 40.6 |  | $ | 39.5 |
Product liability and workers' compensation |  |  | 31.4 |  |  | 30.5 |
Other |  |  | 42.7 |  |  | 38.8 |
Income taxes payable |  |  | 2.1 |  |  | 0.2 |
|  | $ | 116.8 |  | $ | 109.0 |

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