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The A.M. Best Guide Series

 

Fact: Clear communication is vital to success.

Fact: Insurance terminology is often complex.
 
Fact: The A.M. Best Guide Series is a vital resource for agents who want thier clients to succeed in making educated insurance decisions

The A.M. Best Guide Series  is a collection of handbooks that focus on the terms and concepts of the insurance industry in an illustrated, user-friendly format. The comprehensive information presented in these handbooks is backed by A.M. Best Company's more than 100 years of experience in the insurance and financial industries. 

The Guide to Understanding Insurance Ratings

The Guide to Understanding Employee Benefits

The Guide to Understanding the Insurance Industry

The Guide to Understanding Business Insurance Products

The Guide to Understanding Consumer Insurance Products

 

Click on the links above for information about the individual Guides, or visit The Insurance Bookstore to place an order.

The Guide to Understanding Insurance Ratings

Measuring an insurance company's financial strength plays a vital role in insurance sales. The Guide to Understanding Insurance Ratings provides a glimpse into the rating process.

Topics examined by the Guide include:

  • Solvency and how an insurer can fail
  • Best's Credit Ratings
  • Key financial ratios that are used in analyzing an insurer
  • Insurance companies that have carried a top rating for the better part of the past century and which ones are currently top writers.

The Guide to Understanding Insurance Ratings is designed to help agents and brokers put rating factors into context during sales presentations to individual and commercial prospects. It also serves as a go-to reference for commercial insurance buyers, including risk managers and business professionals, who must explain to management what factors they use to select liability coverage.

Order copies of The Guide to Understanding Insurance Ratings for yourself and your colleagues now at The Insurance Bookstore and at Amazon.com.

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The Guide to Understanding Employee Benefits

The Guide to Understanding Employee Benefits explores the various choices available as part of a company's total compensation package. Choices abound as employers seek a competitive edge that will attract and retain employees at a cost beneficial to both sides. Greater flexibility, consumer-driven health plans, changes in retirement options, The Guide to Understanding Employee Benefits examines these and other trends in the employee benefits arena, focusing on key topics such as:

  • Health
  • Disability and Long-term Care
  • Retirement
  • Life
  • Voluntary Benefits
  • Employer Considerations

The Guide to Understanding Employee Benefits is intended to help benefits professionals --- buyers and sellers, such as human resources officers, insurance agents, brokers and business owners --- survey the evolving benefits landscape.

The Guide to Understanding Employee Benefits is now available at The Insurance Bookstore and at http://www.amazon.com/.

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The Guide to Understanding the Insurance Industry

The Guide to Understanding the Insurance Industry takes a fresh look at the inner-workings of the multibillion-dollar world of insurance. This concise, comprehensive handbook demystifies industry terminology in an easy-to-read format. Now in its third edition, this book is indispensable for agents who want to help their clients understand insurance in order to make well-informed decisions. It is also an excellent tool for support staff and newcomers to the insurance business.

Illustrated with vivid charts and graphs, this user-friendly handbook includes an industry overview, a glossary of terms and a listing of events. The Guide covers a wide variety of insurance related topics, giving the reader a clear understanding of:

  • Property/Casualty Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Health Insurance
  • Reinsurance
  • How Insurance is regulated
  • Solvency & Ratings
  • Insurance Resources

Available at The Insurance Bookstore and Amazon.com, The Guide to Understanding the Insurance Industry is a valuable tool for consumers and agents alike.

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The Guide to Understanding Business Insurance Products

The Guide to Understanding Business Insurance Products offers an overview of 21 insurance coverages that are tailored to protect against the risks many small and mid-sized businesses are exposed to.

Included in the Guide are overviews on:

• Builders Risk
• Business Owners Policy
• Cargo
• Commercial Auto
• Commercial Crime
• Commercial Property
• Cyber
• Directors & Officers
• Employment Practices
• Environmental
• Equipment Breakdown

• Errors & Omissions
• Farm Owners
• General Liability
• Intellectual Property
• Medical Malpractice
• Product Liability
• Professional Liability
• Surety Bonds
• Umbrella
• Workers'Compensation

The Guide is an excellent tool for agents wanting explain to their clients what risks certain products protect against. It's also the perfect resource for potential clients who are still deciding what coverage to purchase; the information presented in the Guide is comprehensive and objective.

Order additional copies of The Guide to Understanding Business Insurance Products for:

  • Personal lines agents who need to understand coverages for small and mid-sized businesses
  • Support personnel who need to be familiar with the various insurance products
  • Prospective policyholders who could benefit from an overview of how different coverages work
  • Risk managers and businesspeople who need to understand their business exposures
 
 
 

The Guide to Understanding Consumer Insurance Products

The Guide to Understanding Consumer Insurance Products provides advice on important financial insurance matters in a comprehensible format. It answers questions such as:

  • How much money should be set aside for unexpected crises?
  • What is the best financial protection for retirement?
  • What health insurance options are available other than the group insurance options that employers often provide?
  • What kind of property protection is really necessary?

This handy guidebook navigates the deep waters of personal financial protection and will help consumers in making important decisions for their future. The issues covered in the book are:

  • Protecting Your Lifestyle
  • Life Insurance and Annuities
  • Health and Accident Insurance
  • Personal Property Insurance

This Guide includes a glossary of terms, a list of insurance regulators from around the U.S., information about solvency and ratings, and a list of insurance resources. Packaged in an easy-to-carry, attractive format, this informative addition to The Guide series will benefit agents and their clients alike. The Guide to Understanding Consumer Insurance Products, produced by A.M. Best, is backed by more than 100 years of experience in the insurance and financial industries.

Place your order for the Guide series at The Insurance Bookstore or at Amazon.com

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