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Weiss Ratings
Guide to Property & Casualty Insurers
2012 Editions

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Pub. Date: Quarterly Editions in Winter, Spring, Summer & Fall
Softcover: 600 pages
Price: Four Quarterly Editions $499/Single Edition $249

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Weiss Ratings Guide to Property and Casualty Insurers is the only resource that provides independent, unbiased ratings and analyses on the 2,400 insurers offering auto & homeowners, business, worker’s compensation, product liability, medical malpractice and other professional liability insurance in the United States.

• Updated quarterly, to make sure the user has access to the most current information
  
  
• Helpful Introduction, with data on how to use the guide and what the ratings mean
  
  
• Index of Companies – covers all insurers and provides their letter-grade rating, total assets, profitability & liquidity indexes, risk adjusted capital ratios for moderate and severe recessions, and much more
  
  
• Analysis of Largest Companies – with their letter-grade rating and expanded graphs, charts and analysis, including data on major rating factors, principal business, contact information, historical data, income trends and more
  
  
• Recommended Companies – with a rating of B+ or higher, arranged alphabetically, by type of business and by state
  
  
• Index of Companies by Rating – for easy location of the best and worst insurers
  
  
• Rating Upgrades & Downgrades & several helpful Appendices
  
  
• Available in print and online database formats

Consumers have a lot of options when selecting a property and casualty insurer, by utilizing the financial strength ratings in Weiss Ratings Guide to Property & Casualty Insurers, users can make sure that they are choosing a company who will be there when they need them. This important resource will prove useful to insurance brokers along with the reference collections of all public libraries.

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Weiss’s rating scale is extremely straightforward and easy to understand. There are no complicated number grades to interpret, no colored paper to decode, and no stars to count. Instead, each entry gets a simple, intuitive letter grade that immediately identifies the wheat from the chaff. This is one more reason why Weiss Ratings is widely recognized as "America's Consumer Advocate for Financial Safety." The Weiss Safety Ratings have been proven to be the most accurate available from any of the major rating agencies. Plus, unlike the other major rating agencies, Weiss does not accept compensation from the companies it rates, and thus does not allow companies to influence the ratings they receive or to suppress the release of their ratings. In fact, the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) validated Weiss’ accuracy in its Insurance Ratings study, and that same superior rating methodology is used when deriving all other ratings as well.

Pub. Date: Quarterly Editions in Winter, Spring, Summer & Fall
Softcover: 600 pages
Price: Four Quarterly Editions $499/Single Edition $249

Note: If you find this work does not fit your budget, please print out this page and bring it to your local library. There is a reasonable chance they either have a copy, can direct you to a library that does, or will be willing to purchase it for their reference collection.