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Fair Value of Financial Instruments (Details Textual) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	3 Months Ended	6 Months Ended
	Jun. 30, 2014	Jun. 30, 2014	Jun. 30, 2014 Level 3 [Member]	Jun. 30, 2013 Level 3 [Member]
Fair Value of Financial Instruments (Textual) [Abstract]
Percentage of investment portfolio fair value pricing services or index priced			89.00%	88.00%
Percentage of invested assets in total investment portfolio level3			2.00%
Embedded Derivative, Gain (Loss) on Embedded Derivative, Net, Total	$ 57	$ 69

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Percentage of invested assets in the total investment portfolio in Level 3.

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Percentage of investment portfolio fair value priced through pricing services or index priced.

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Net Increase or Decrease in the fair value of the embedded derivative or group of embedded derivatives included in earnings in the period.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 815

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

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-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=35706170&loc=SL5624171-113959

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