Recent Alerts

Registered customers have the ability to track and receive e-mail notification of press releases, related news articles, Best's Credit Rating changes, and updates to reports.

Once an alert is established, you can sort the activity on your account from the Recent Alerts tab by any one of six fields, including company name, alert type and alert date that have been released within the past 30 days.

1. Create an alert. Click here to create or edit an Alert.

Note: Page may be blank if no recent alerts were delivered.

2. Click the alert drop-down list and select an alert.

The alerts listed will be from the alerts selected.

3. If necessary, click one of the column header titles to sort that column. Click the column header again to reverse the order.

To access an alert select one of the following tabs:

Note: See Alert Settings for more details.

1. • (FSR) - Guide to Best’s Financial Strength Ratings

   • (LT/ST ICR) - Guide to Best’s Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings & Long-Term Debt Ratings

   • Press Release

   • Best's News Service

   • Best's Credit Report

   • (FSC) - Financial Size Category

   • (M&A) - Mergers & Acquisitions

   • (CCR) - Corporate Changes

The Recent Alerts listing consists of the following six fields:

1. • AMB#: - The unique six-digit number assigned to identify a single company, group, partial group, or other data record that is collected and/or tracked by A.M. Best. Includes "Consolidated as Filed", Separate Accounts, and Industry Total/Composite records.

   • NAIC#: - The individual company identification code assigned by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

   • Company Name: - This is the actual company name.

   • Best’s Financial Strength Rating - Click here for the Guide to Best's Financial Strength Ratings  http://www.ambest.com/ratings/guide.pdf

   • Alert Type

     • Best’s Financial Strength Ratings

     • Best’s Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings & Long-Term Debt Ratings

     • Best’s Short-Term Issuer Credit Ratings & Short-Term Debt Ratings

     • Press Releases

     • Best's News Service

     • AMB Credit Report – Insurance Professional

     • Financial Size Categories

     • Mergers & Acquisitions

     • Corporate Changes

   • Alert Date - The date the Alert Type selected, such as Press Release, would be the date it became available. Best's Financial Strength Rating would be the date of the Rating, etc.

4. To view the Alert or Company Information, select one of the following:

1. • News

   • Press releases

   • Report changes

   • Ratings

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Click to select a Company Name text link. Best's Rating and Analysis Center opens and the following company information is available:

1. 5. Company list information such as AMB# NAIC#, FEIN#, Address, Phone, Fax and Web address.

   6. Click on the country name text link to be directed to the Country Risk Report.

   7. Click on the insurance company's web site address text link to be directed to that web site.

   8. Best's Ratings

   9. Best's Credit Report

5. Print or Save - Print or save option is available for your Recent Alerts in either PDF format or Excel format. Select Current Tab or All Tabs in the desired format.

Note: If there are no recent alerts available the Current Tab / All Tabs options will be unavailable.