Best's State/Line
(Property/Casualty Lines) - United States

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Find out who the major players are in key states, individual lines or broad sectors of the property/casualty market. Best's State/Line (Property/Casualty Lines) - United States helps you determine market share and examine underwriting performance in each of 46 standard lines of business and 23 popular line combinations.

Use it to:

• Analyze market share and loss experience by company, by line and by state.
• Access the latest financial data online with BestLink.
• Benchmark a company's performance against that of a peer group or market.
• Make informed product development decisions.
• Determine a company's degree of exposure to certain types of losses.
• Determine market trends over an 11-year period.
• Decide whether to enter or withdraw from a market.
• Perform relational studies by entity or over a period of time.
• Evaluate insurers for merger or investment potential.
• Follow market share and underwriting trends in lines or line combinations for a six-year period, for big-picture analysis of key markets.
• Integrate the latest financial information into your custom research projects using BestLink for Excel, which pulls online data directly into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
• Rely on our Report and Excel Add-In Wizards to guide you in creating reports or accessing data.
• Go online for the latest ratings, financials, reports, news and more.

Your purchase includes:

• BestLink, which gives you direct online access to the latest financial and rating data via your Web browser
• A CD-ROM with up to six years of data from page 19 of the NAIC Annual Statement on thousands of property/casualty companies
• A.M. Best-calculated ratios, ranking information and market share
• Results in 46 standard individual lines and 23 line combinations
• Aggregated results for Total All Lines, plus U.S. Total and Grand Total
• Automatically generated custom state and line summations
• Top 50 Report generator that shows the leading writers in your target market
• BestLink for Excel, which lets you download the latest online data via Excel
• Easy-to-use software that lets you create reports and export them into Excel
• Concise Company Profile Reports online
• Five- and 11-year Market Share Trend Studies online for any states and lines you select
• The latest Best's Financial Strength Ratings online
• Best's State/Line (Health Lines) - Health - United States, with data from insurers that filed a health statement blank in any year since 2001, and/or an HMDI or HMO statement in 2000
• Best's Review, A.M. Best's award-winning monthly magazine. 
• BestAlert Service, A.M. Best's company-tracking and e-mail notification system, which lets you monitor the latest news, ratings and reports for companies you select.

Important Links

• Learn more about BestLink
• View current product enhancements.
• Learn more about BestLink for Excel.
• View available lines of business for this product.
• Learn more about 11-year online reports.
• View hardware and software requirements.
• Learn more about our data & request a video.

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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