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(Loss Reserves) - Property/Casualty - United States
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Best's Schedule P (Loss Reserves) - Property/Casualty - United States

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Best's Schedule P (Loss Reserves) - Property/Casualty - United States

Track losses.

Inadequate loss reserves are the leading cause of insurer insolvency. Best's Schedule P delivers the insight you need to plan for the future, providing powerful tools for uncovering property/casualty industry norms and trends in this vital area.

Use this product to:

  • Study loss and expense reserves, Incurred but Not Reported (IBNR) reserves and loss payments by line of business.
  • Determine the appropriate level of loss reserves for your company.
  • Perform claims and loss analysis.
  • Compare your company's results to those of other companies or the industry.
  • Observe reserving trends over a 10-year period in the major casualty lines.
  • Assess the impact of a company's reserving practices on its financial strength.
  • Integrate the latest financial and rating data directly into your custom research projects using BestLink for Excel, which utilizes A.M. Best's new Web Services architecture to retrieve information from our online Global Insurance & Banking Database.

Your purchase includes:

  • A CD-ROM containing loss reserve data for more than 3,000 property/casualty companies, from Schedule P, parts 1 through 7, of the NAIC annual statement
  • Data for up to 10 accident years and 19 lines of business
  • A.M. Best-calculated ratios, such as Paid Loss and Allocated Loss Expense
  • A.M. Best-calculated percentages, such as Percent Paid to Incurred
  • Accumulated prior-year totals and totals for all years
  • Earned-premium information from part 6
  • BestLink for Excel, which lets you download the latest data from the A.M. Best Web site and includes the following new standard report:

    • Loss Reserve Development: An analysis of Developed Loss DCC reserves to Net Earned Premium; and, Loss and DCC Development to Original Reserves. This report assesses the change in ratio of Developed Reserves to Net Earned Premiums and the change in ratio of Loss and DCC Development to Original reserves to determine change in reserve adequacy or deficiency.

  • Easy-to-use software that lets you create reports and export them into Excel
  • The latest Best's Ratings online
  • Best's Review
  • BestAlert Service
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Year First Published: 1991

Published: Second quarter with regular flows throughout the year

Years of Data: The database contains the data filed in the current year by the company for a ten-year schedule.

Entries: Approximately 3,000

Phone orders: (908) 439-2200 ext. 5311 (Corporate Sales)

Multi-seat inquiries, including organization-wide access: (908) 439-2200 ext. 5311 (Corporate Sales)

ISSN: 1520-2704

ISBN: 978-1-934301-38-8

Need additional data? Contact A.M. Best's Custom Data Services team for your special needs. With access to decades of filings, historical rating information and the ability to aggregate financial information by a variety of criteria, a solution is only a phone call away. (908) 439-2200 ext. 5383.

A.M. Best Data: Clean. Complete. Accurate.

  1. No data provider can equal the accuracy, scope or value of information from A.M. Best. We collect quarterly and annual statement data from more than 6,000 companies -- Property/Casualty and Life/Health companies, HMOs, alternative market entities and others -- and perform exhaustive tests and cross-checks for accuracy.
  2. Historical information is presented in 'as is' format, meaning it reflects today's ownership structures. Each company is identified in a way that allows us to track its development through changes in ownership or structure.
  3. Financial information for groups and major industry segments are presented in consolidated format, information that is not available elsewhere.
  4. Many of our publications include qualitative analysis of insurance company and industry performance, as well as unique, value-added indicators such as Best's Ratings and Profitability, Leverage and Liquidity ratios.
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