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

To order by phone:
(908) 439-2200 ext. 5311
(Corporate Sales)

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 40 standard lines of business and 20 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, without the need to install any software.
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 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 44 standard individual lines and 20 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
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Year First Published: 1966
Published: Second quarter with regular flows throughout the year
Years of Data: Up to 11
Entries: 3,200
Phone orders: (908) 439-2200 ext. 5311 (Corporate Sales)
Multi-seat inquiries, including organization-wide access: (908) 439-2200 ext. 5311 (Corporate Sales)
ISBN: 978-1-934301-88-3

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.

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