A measure of success.This issue of Best's Review brings you our annual rankings of the top life insurers and the top property/casualty insurers, based on admitted assets for life and net premiums written for property/casualty. One of our cover stories, "Bulking Up" (page 20), talks about size as a metric, but the other, "Below the Profit Line" (page 21), talks about combined ratios. There are many metrics metrics Managed care A popular term for standards by which the quality of a product, service, or outcome of a particular form of Pt management is evaluated. See TQM. applied to the industry, which begs the question, which one is best? "It's easy to pigeonhole pi·geon·hole n. 1. A small compartment or recess, as in a desk, for holding papers; a cubbyhole. 2. A specific, often oversimplified category. 3. The small hole or holes in a pigeon loft for nesting. tr. a topic like this and say one thing defines success," said James Drinkwater, managing director of global markets for Willis Wil·lis , Thomas 1621-1675. English anatomist and physician known for his studies of the nervous system and the brain. He discovered the circle of Willis at the base of the brain. . "But it's such a huge industry with so many diverse players, to say success is size or appetite only is a bad comparison. There are both quantitative and qualitative aspects. Appetite, capacity, claims handling and service are all important." Introducing Best's Review (Digital Edition) This issue also marks a significant expansion of Best's Review. The magazine is now available in a digital edition, which provides the same content as the print edition in Adobe adobe (ədō`bē): see rammed earth. adobe Handmade sun-dried bricks formed from a mixture of heavy clay and straw found in arid regions. Portable Document Format (file format) Portable Document Format - (PDF) The native file format for Adobe Systems' Acrobat. PDF is the file format for representing documents in a manner that is independent of the original application software, hardware, and operating system used to create those documents. (PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. ). The digital edition allows you to click on a story listing in the table of contents and go directly to that article, click on each article's featured insurers to get A.M. Best ratings and other company-specific information and click on ads to go directly to advertisers' Web sites. To receive your Best's Review (Digital Edition), just fill out the brief online form at www.bestreview.com/register. It's easy and free. Keep your print edition handy when you go to register. Plus, once you subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; the digital edition, you'll get immediate access to the full news stories in BestDay, A.M. Best's online news digest, located at Bestday.ambest.com. We've also added new features to Best's Review to help you zero in on articles that are most important to you and find out more information about the insurers featured in the articles. The table of contents now classifies articles more precisely. Within each article you'll find a list of key points and a list of featured insurers with A.M. Best numbers. We hope these features and the new digital edition will bring you the information you want more quickly. Sally Whitney is editor. You may reach her at (908) 439-2200, Ext. 5340, by writing to A.M. Best Co., Ambest Road, Oldwick, NJ 08858, or by e-mail at sally.whitney@ambest.com. The e-mail address See Internet address. e-mail address - electronic mail address for Best's Review is bestreview@ambest.com. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion