Accrued Expenses And Current Portion Of Other Long-Term Liabilities

9 Months Ended

Jun. 25, 2011

Accrued Expenses And Current Portion Of Other Long-Term Liabilities

Accrued Expenses And Current Portion Of Other Long-Term Liabilities

F. ACCRUED EXPENSES AND CURRENT PORTION OF OTHER LONG-TERM LIABILITIES

Accrued expenses and current portion of other long-term liabilities consist of the following:


	June 25, 2011		September 25, 2010
Property, payroll and other taxes payable	$	13,742,788	$	15,829,531
Salaries, wages and bonuses payable		22,468,824		23,291,110
Self-insurance liabilities		23,657,944		22,340,050
Income taxes payable		6,714,757		—
Interest		7,036,131		19,531,257
Other		4,718,140		4,106,817

	$	78,338,584	$	85,098,765

Self-insurance liabilities are established for workers' compensation and employee group medical and dental benefits based on claims filed and estimates of claims incurred but not reported. The Company is insured for covered costs in excess of $750,000 per occurrence for workers' compensation and $325,000 per covered person for medical care benefits for a policy year. Employee insurance expense, including workers' compensation and medical care benefits, net of employee contributions, totaled $8.0 million and $5.2 million for each of the three-month periods ended June 25, 2011 and June 26, 2010, respectively. For the nine-month periods ended June 25, 2011 and June 26, 2010, employee insurance expense, net of employee contributions, totaled $24.9 million and $21.8 million, respectively.