A.M. Best Adds a New State and Exportable Data to Best's State Rate Filings.Business Editors OLDWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 2004 Best's State Rate Filings now includes New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). on its roster of available states. The publication, which provides coverage of activities in the U.S. representing 90% of the property/casualty premiums written each year, provides insurance industry professionals with state-specific information regarding approved filings, including policy rate changes, form revisions and new programs. Best's State Rate Filings can be ordered as printed monthly reports or as an online database. The database is updated as soon as new information becomes available and features a search engine for quick and easy retrieval retrieval /re·triev·al/ (-tre´v'l) in psychology, the process of obtaining memory information from wherever it has been stored. re·triev·al n. of information. A.M. Best recently enhanced the capabilities of the Best's State Rate Filings Web site. Subscribers can now export search results in MS Excel A full-featured spreadsheet for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. It can link many spreadsheets for consolidation and provides a wide variety of business graphics and charts for creating presentation materials. (R)-, MS Word(R)-, Acrobat- or Rich Text-format. The search engine allows subscribers to: -- Save and retrieve To call up data that has been stored in a computer system. When a user queries a database, the data are retrieved into the computer first and then transmitted to the screen. (language) Retrieve queries for tracking and monitoring. -- Search across multiple states. -- Sort query To interrogate a collection of data such as records in a database. The term may also be used to search a single file or collection of files such as HTML files on the Web. However, in addition to obtaining lists of records that match the search criteria, queries to a database allow for results by a variety of categories. This product includes filings that have been approved or filed for use by insurance companies in individual state insurance departments. Commercial and personal lines of insurance are listed separately. Each filing includes company or bureau; subject, policy or program; effective date; insurance department filing number; description of filing; and overall rate level effect. To order, or for more information, visit www.bestsstateratefilings.com, call (908) 439-2200, ext. 5674 or e-mail StateRate@ambest.com. Multistate mul·ti·state adj. Of, relating to, or involving several states: a multistate environmental campaign. discounts apply. A.M. Best Co., established in 1899, is the world's oldest and most authoritative insurance rating and information source. For more information, visit A.M. Best's Web site at www.ambest.com. |
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