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Best's Insurance Reports - Property/Casualty - United States & Canada (Print/Database/Web)
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Each purchase includes the books, CD-ROM and online reports. |
A.M. Best's flagship product provides in-depth reports on thousands of insurers, reinsurers and groups, plus an online database of retired companies. Best's Insurance Reports is the centerpiece of a multi-component service that combines the time-tested value of the classic publication with 21st-century functionality.
Each report allows you to:
- Check a company's Best's Rating, find out why a rating was assigned, and see a five-year rating history.
- Learn what makes one company secure and another more vulnerable with our in-depth commentary on operating methods and management philosophy.
- Find out who the principal officers are and get company name and address information.
- Identify companies that meet certain criteria, for competitive research and benchmarking analysis.
- Search and sort on numerical and text fields, create custom lists of companies, export data to other software, and link to current information on the A.M. Best Web site.
Your purchase includes:
- A CD-ROM containing complete, unabridged reports on thousands of P/C insurance companies operating in the U.S. and Canada
- Two completely updated CDs shipped as six- and nine-month quarterly financials become available
- A two-volume printed reference that contains slightly condensed versions of the reports
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New! Best's Corporate Changes and Retirements, an online database featuring 15 years of data that lets users find changes impacting existing companies, locate surviving insurers for companies that have gone out of business and more
- An online search feature that lets Network and Unlimited customers search across the P/C and L/H industries, including annual and quarterly financial data
- New Internet download service
- Access to a database of retired companies and corporate changes
- Access to 10 current online AMB Credit Reports on insurers listed in this edition (additional reports can be purchased at a 33% discount; LAN and Unlimited users have unlimited access to online reports)
- Access to archived Historical AMB Credit Reports, in print or online, at a 30% discount for any insurers in this edition of Best's Insurance Reports (Unlimited subscribers receive access to archived reports at no additional charge)
- BestAlert Service
- Best's Review at all Service levels
- BestWeek at the Full Service levels
Report features:
- Complete company name, address, and contact information
- Best's Rating and Financial Size Category
- Rating Rationale, which explains the factors considered in assigning the rating
- Five-year rating history
- Key Financial Indicators, including statutory data and performance ratios
- Business review that can include when a company was incorporated, where it is licensed, its ownership characteristics, what lines of business it writes, etc.
- Financial Performance Review that analyzes profitability, underwriting experience and investments
- Capitalization analysis, including capital generation, quality of surplus, leverage analysis and loss reserve and reinsurance analysis
- Liquidity and cash flow analysis
- Management information and company history
- Financial statement information such as balance sheet, summary of operations and income statement
Important Links
Includes BestAlert Service, A.M. Best Company's notification and tracking service. Registered customers have the ability to track and receive notice of selected insurance company rating changes, related news and other company-specific information.
Year First Published: 1900
Publication Cycle: Third quarter; with flows of six- and nine-month quarterly data
Years of Data Included: Five
Entries: 3,400
Contains Best's Ratings: Yes
Price for Regular & Regular-Online Service: $1,325.00
Delivery Charges: $33.95 (U.S.)
Price for Full-Online Service (BestWeek Online Only): $1,910.00 (U.S.)
Price for Full Service (BestWeek Print/Online): $2,010.00 (U.S.)
Phone orders: (908) 439-2200 ext. 5742 (Customer Service)
Multi-seat inquiries, including organization-wide access: (908) 439-2200 ext. 5311 (Corporate Sales)
ISSN: 0148-3218
ISBN: 978-1-934301-51-7
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Financial information for groups and major industry segments are presented in consolidated format, information that is not available elsewhere.
- 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.
Site Map: Products & Services A.M. Best's Publications & Services Catalog (PDF format: 3 meg) (Document updated 8/6/2008)
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