Best's Statement File Now Offers 11 Years of Data.OLDWICK, N.J. -- A.M. Best Co.'s just-released 2006 edition of Best's Statement File offers not only 11-year financial reports online but 11 years of annual filing data on CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). . Subscribers can now perform 11-year trend analysis across all data points--a feature offered only by A.M. Best. Best's Statement File is available in property/casualty and life/health editions, and allows subscribers to research single insurers, groups and industry composites with data from thousands of quarterly and annual statements filed by U.S. insurers with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) is an Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which seeks to organize the regulatory and supervisory efforts of the various state insurance commissioners from around the United States. (NAIC NAIC See National Association of Investors Corporation (NAIC). ) and A.M. Best. In addition to 11 years of annual data, subscribers also receive six years of quarterly data, unique composites of aggregated results for the total industry as well as professional and predominating categories, NAIC statement page reports and online PDFs of statement pages as filed, exportable five- and 11-year Best's Executive Summary Reports, concise Company Profile reports and five years' worth of Best's Financial Strength Ratings. All subscribers also receive Best's Statement File - Health, with data from insurers that filed a health statement blank in any year starting with 2001, and/or an HMDI HMDI Hexamethylene Di-Isocyanate or HMO HMO health maintenance organization. HMO n. A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial, statement in 2000. The product is released initially on CD-ROM, but subsequent data flows, which culminate in early-summer industry totals, can be received via FTP FTP in full file transfer protocol Internet protocol that allows a computer to send files to or receive files from another computer. Like many Internet resources, FTP works by means of a client-server architecture; the user runs client software to connect to download at the subscriber's request. For more information about Best's Statement File, visit www.ambest.com/sales/statement or call Corporate Sales at (908) 439-2200, ext. 5311. 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 http://www.ambest.com. |
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