Printer Friendly
The Free Library
19,585,832 articles and books
Member login
User name  
Password 
 
Join us Forgot password?

Best's Captive Center - Premium Data & Reports Offers News, Ratings and Company Reports on Captive Insurers.


Business Editors

OLDWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2004

Best's Captive captive

said of naturally wild or feral animals kept in captivity for educational and scientific investigation with no attempt being made to domesticate them.
 Directory--Online is now Best's Captive Center--Premium Data & Reports, reflecting changes in features and benefits to this and other A.M. Best Co. Web centers. Best's Captive Center--Premium Data & Reports provides access to Best's Ratings Best's rating

A rating A.M. Best Co. assigns to insurance companies based on the company's ability to meet its obligations to its policyholders.
, news articles and company reports on captive insurers, plus special reports and statistical studies.

Nearly 5,000 captive insurance Captive insurance companies are limited purpose insurance companies established with the specific objective of financing risks emanating from their parent group or groups, they sometimes also insure risks of the parent company's customers.  companies are listed in Best's Captive Center--Premium Data & Reports. Companies are searchable by name, location, type, parent company, rating and financial size category, among other criteria. Listings are updated on an ongoing basis, guaranteeing subscribers will find the most current data available.

Best's Captive Center--Premium Data & Reports is accessible online through the A.M. Best Captive Center at www.ambest.com/captive. There, non-subscribers can view news headlines See syndication format.  related to the captive market and Best's Ratings of captive companies. A link at the Captive Center takes subscribers to the premium data.

For an additional charge, subscribers can receive a one-year adj. 1. completing its life cycle within a year.

Adj. 1. one-year - completing its life cycle within a year; "a border of annual flowering plants"
annual

phytology, botany - the branch of biology that studies plants
 subscription to BestWeek Online, the industry's leading weekly news publication.

Subscribers also can utilize BestDirect, A.M. Best's real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example.  notification and tracking service. Registered customers can receive e-mail notification of rating changes, news, report updates and other information related to captive insurers of their choice.

For more information, call Customer Service at (908) 439-2200, ext. 5742 or visit A.M. Best Company's Products and Services Web site at www.ambest.com/sales/Captivedirectory.

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.
COPYRIGHT 2004 Business Wire
No portion of this article can be reproduced without the express written permission from the copyright holder.
Copyright 2004, Gale Group. All rights reserved. Gale Group is a Thomson Corporation Company.

 Reader Opinion

Title:

Comment:



 

Article Details
Printer friendly Cite/link Email Feedback
Publication:Business Wire
Date:Feb 5, 2004
Words:270
Previous Article:Atlantic Integrated Health to Provide DrFirst's Rcopia e-Prescribing Solution to its 4,000 Physician Members in North Carolina.
Next Article:Schaeffer's Street Chatter Highlights the Following Stocks: Abercrombie & Fitch, Pixar Animation Studios, and Yahoo!



Related Articles
Employee Benefits Held Captive.
Ask an FEI Researcher about. (Resources).
The pluses and minuses of captives. (Risk Management Survival Guide).
Rites of passage: Australia and New Zealand are often viewed as the gateway to larger markets in Asia, but insurers have to overcome problems in...
The captive solution: there are real advantages for both lenders and mortgage insurers that choose to be involved in captives. (Property/Casualty:...
Captive insurers enjoy popularity but still face hard-market realities. (Briefing).
Capitalizing on captives: domiciles for what may be the quietest, cleanest and least-visible industry are spreading through the United States.
State and international tax aspects of "captives".
Are taxpayers properly paying the federal foreign insurance excise tax?
Captive Island. Puerto Rico's long-time plan to become a haven for captive insurance companies is becoming a reality.

Terms of use | Copyright © 2012 Farlex, Inc. | Feedback | For webmasters | Submit articles