Company Browse

Quickly generate a list of companies by industry, region, attributes, Industry Composites/Totals as well as companies that are available within the current reporting period, etc.

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Search Population - Choose the base population for your search. Search from All Companies, Single Companies, or AMB Groups and Unaffiliated Single Companies.
Optional: Further define your results using any of the following options.
- Select Return only rating units to limit the results to companies that are Rating Units.
- Select Return only companies in business to limit the results to companies that are currently in business.
- Select Return only rated entities to limit the results to entities that are rated.
- Select Rating EU or UK Endorsed to limit the results to ratings issued outside the EU or the UK and can only be used for regulatory purposes in the EU or UK where they have been “endorsed” by AM Best’s registered EU or UK Credit Rating Agencies (CRA).
Browse by Industry, Segment or Attribute provides access to many Company Attributes including:
- IndustryIndustry
  - Property/Casuality
  - Life, Health & Accident
  - Health
  - Title
- Organization TypeOrganization Type
  - Stock - companies are corporations whose financial ownership is comprised of capital stock that is divided into shares.
  - Mutual - companies are corporations without capital stock.
  - Fraternal life - insurance societies are purely mutual organizations. The major fraternal societies furnish life insurance benefits to their members in essentially the same way as legal reserve life insurance companies. (L/A only)
  - Friendly Society - (sometimes called a mutual society, benevolent society or fraternal organization) is a mutual association for insurance, pensions or savings and loan-like purposes, or cooperative banking. Some friendly societies, especially in the past, served ceremonial and friendship purposes also, while others did not. It is a mutual organization or benefit society composed of a body of people who join together for a common financial or social purpose. Before modern insurance, and the welfare state, friendly societies provided financial and social services to individuals, often according to their religious or political affiliations.
  - Lloyds - are organizations comprised of voluntary unincorporated associations of individuals. Each individual assumes a specified portion of the liability under each policy issued. (PC only)
  - Non-Profit - companies are corporations without profit. (L/A only)
  - Cooperative - companies are mutual organizations such as fraternal, employee, industrial,
  - Pool or Insurance Trust - (P/C) structures that are created by legal agreement which demonstrates the cross commitment of the members to meet the obligations of all of the members.
  - Reciprocal Exchange - companies are composed of a group of people, firms or corporations commonly termed "Subscribers", who exchange contracts of insurance on the Reciprocal, or Inter-Insurance plan through the medium of an attorney-in-fact. (PC only)
- Organization Type DescriptorOrganization Type Descriptor
  - RRG (Risk Retention Group) are groups of 2 or more organizations authorized by the federal Risk Retention Act of 1981 to pool and retain some or all of their products liability exposures.
  - Self-Insured Fund
  - State Fund are set up by a state government to finance a mandatory insurance system, such as workers' compensation or non-occupational disability benefits.
- Operating Company TypeOperating Company Type
  Defines the type of Operating Company for the entity.
  - Captive
  - Third Party Reinsurer
  - Underwriting Organization
- SpecialtySpecialty
  Includes the following options:
  - Excess & Suplus Writers - the population is obtained from Best's State/Line (P/C Lines) and is comprised of companies that reported they were eligible or approved to write Surplus Lines on Schedule T for specific states.
  - Non-Standard Auto Companies - the population is obtained from Best's State/Line (P/C Lines) and is comprised of carriers deemed to write a predominant amount of Non-Standard Auto (NSA) business.
Browse By Current Data Availability allows you to browse companies with data available for the current data period or browse companies for any database within a selected region and industry. Select from the following options to return the desired search results.
- Total Available - All companies with current data available.
- Included in Totals - Companies with available data that are included in the calculation of totals.
- Quality Checked - Companies with available in the current period that have gone through rigorous processing to enhance quality by eliminating redundancies and the potential for double counting.
- As Received - Companies with available data that have not yet undergone the check process.
Browse By Industry Composite Total (US/Canada) provides the ability to locate companies based on selected industry composite. Select from the following options to return the desired search results.
- Included in Composite Calculation will return individual insurance companies that were used to calculate the selected composite.
- Compared to Industry Composite will return single companies and groups that are assigned an industry composite for comparison purposes.

Results displays the companies matching the criteria selected. The companies are placed in a temporary list that are displayed on the Results page.