Industry Reports Wizard

Use Industry Reports Wizard to quickly get a comprehensive picture of the industry. The Industry Reports Wizard guides you through the steps to create Best’s Market Share Reports or Best’s Market Expense Reports based on the leading writers, ranked by premiums written. Access is subscription based.

Access Industry Reports from the Report Wizards group button.  

• Best's Market Share Report (Best's State/Line)

  View the leading US companies writing business in the states and lines of your choice. View current conditions and long-term trends set by industry leaders, and see how your company's experience compares.

  • P/C Lines

  • One Year Premium and Loss Study - Basic annual P/C statement data, plus ratios and rankings for leading writers in states and lines you select. Data fields include market share, direct premiums written, direct premiums earned, dividends to policyholders, direct losses paid, direct losses incurred, paid loss ratio, incurred loss ratio, adjusted loss ratio, overall rank and single-company rank.

  • Five Years of Premiums and Adjusted Loss Ratios - A comparison of premiums and loss experience by state and by line for leading P/C writers. Data fields include direct premiums written and adjusted loss ratios for the past five years, and three- and five-year adjusted loss ratio averages.

  • Five Year Trend Study - A by-state, by-line premium-and-loss record of the largest P/C writers (by premium volume). Data fields include market share, direct premiums written and adjusted loss ratio, each for the past five years.

  • Eleven Year Trend Study - A by-state, by-line premium-and-loss record of the largest P/C writers (by premium volume). Data fields include market share, direct premiums written and adjusted loss ratio, each for the past eleven years.

  • Life Lines

  • One Year Premium and Loss Study - Basic annual L/H statement data and rankings for leading writers in states and lines you select. Data fields include market share, direct premiums written, amount in force, amount issued, overall percent, average policy issued, average policy in force, and single-company rank.

  • Five Year Trend Study - A by-state, by-line premium-and-loss record of the largest L/H writers (by premium volume). Data fields include market share, direct premiums written and average policy issued, each for the past five years.

  • Eleven Year Trend Study - A by-state, by-line premium-and-loss record of the largest L/H writers (by premium volume). Data fields include market share, direct premiums written and average policy issued, each for the past eleven years.

  • A&H Lines

  • One Year Premium and Loss Study - Basic annual L/H statement data, plus ratios and rankings for leading writers in states and lines you select. Data fields include market share, direct premiums written, direct premiums earned, dividends to policyholders, direct losses paid, direct losses incurred, paid loss ratio, incurred loss ratio, adjusted loss ratio, and single-company rank.

  • Five Year Trend Study - A by-state, by-line premium-and-loss record of the largest L/H writers (by premium volume). Data fields include market share, direct premiums written and adjusted loss ratio, each for the past five years.

  • Eleven Year Trend Study - A by-state, by-line premium-and-loss record of the largest L/H writers (by premium volume). Data fields include market share, direct premiums written and adjusted loss ratio, each for the past eleven years.

• Best's Market Expense Reports (Best's IEE)

  View the leading US companies writing business in the  lines of your choice. View current conditions and long-term trends set by industry leaders, and see how your company's experience compares.  

  • IEE

  • By Line Underwriting Experience - Underwriting annual P/C statement data from pages 4 and 5 of the NAIC Insurance Expense Exhibit (IEE) supplement, plus ratios for leading writers in lines you select, sorted by net premiums written. Data fields include market code, net premiums written, net premiums earned, losses incurred, adjustments and other expenses incurred, loss adjustment expenses incurred, commission and brokerage expenses incurred, net taxes, licenses and fees incurred, other acquisition, supervision and collection expenses incurred, net general expenses incurred, net other income less other expenses, total underwriting expenses incurred to NPW (%), policyholders dividends to NPE (%), combined ratio after dividends (%), Investment gain on funds and other income to NPE (%), and overall operating ratio(%).

  • By Line Pure Loss Experience Study - A comparison of premiums and loss experience by line for leading P/C writers. Data fields include net premiums written and net incurred losses to NPE ratio for the past five years.

Select your report options. Select multiple reports, states/regions (Market Share Reports only), and lines to generate multiple Industry Reports simultaneously. One Year reports offer eleven individual years of historical data.

1. Select the report(s). Selected reports must be within the same product.

• Click the corresponding checkbox to select a report.

or

• Click the checkbox for the product to select all the available reports for that database.

2. If necessary, select the Year from the Data Year drop-down list. This option is only available for One Year reports.

3. Select AMB Financial Groups and Unaffiliated Singles or Affiliated and Unaffiliated Singles from the Company Types drop-down list.

• AMB Financial Groups and Unaffiliated Singles - The report will contain groups with which member company data is consolidated by A.M. Best Company using standard interownership eliminations and companies that operate independently of other companies.

• Affiliated and Unaffiliated Singles - The report will contain companies that are part of a larger group of insurance companies and companies that operate independently of other companies.  

4. Select the amount of companies to view in the report from the Number of Companies drop-down list. Companies can be viewed in increments of 5 up to 200, 500 or All companies.

5. Optional: Select the Include Selection Total checkbox to add this option to the report. This option provides a summation of the companies within the report.

6. Optional: Select the Include Industry Totals checkbox to add this option to the report. This option includes Industry Total data.

7. Market Share Reports Only: Select the states, territories, and/or regions from the States/Territories/Regions section.

8. Select the lines from the Line of Business section.

9. Optional: Click the Save Defaults button to create a default selection for Report Population, Company Count, Industry and Selection Totals. Modify the setting on the Standard and Industry Reports tab of the User Preferences.

10. Optional: Choose Show the industry report task pane when the current worksheet contains an industry report. This option will display the Industry Report Task Pane when the active worksheet contains a market share or market expense report. Click the Save button to set a default preference for this option in the General tab in User Preferences.

11. Click Create Report. The report is limited to 200 worksheets.

The Data Retrieval Progress window displays a progress of the report request.

The Industry Reports window remains open so you can generate additional reports.