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Accrued Expenses and Other Liabilities (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Accrued Expenses and Other Liabilities |
Schedule of accrued expenses and other liabilities |
|  | December 31, |
|  | 2017 |  | 2016 |
|  | (in millions) |
Commissions and sales incentives payable |  | $ | 40.1 |  | $ | 36.0 |
Product liability and workers’ compensation |  |  | 24.5 |  |  | 28.1 |
Other |  |  | 57.6 |  |  | 68.6 |
Income taxes payable |  |  | 3.6 |  |  | 4.1 |
|  | $ | 125.8 |  | $ | 136.8 |

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