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Business Insurance today revealed its 2009 Readers Choice Awards recognizing the best overall commercial insurance industry companies in 18 different categories, including retail, reinsurance and wholesale brokers.

Thousands of BI and BusinessInsurance.com readers cast their votes through confidential electronic ballots, choosing who they believe offers the best combination of service, value, quality and innovation.

You can find profiles of all the winners here, but I thought I'd give—as the kids like to say—a “shout out” to the winners in the various broker categories.

  • Best reinsurance broker: Aon Benfield

  • Best retail agent/broker with more than $250 million in revenue: Aon Corp.

  • Best retail agent/broker with revenues between $50 million and $250 million: Integro Ltd. and Beecher Carlson Holdings Inc. (in a rare tie)

  • Best retail agent/broker with revenues between $25 million and $50 million: William Gallagher Associates Insurance Brokers Inc.

  • Best retail agent/broker with revenues under $25 million: Alper Services Inc.

  • Best wholesale broker: Swett & Crawford Group Inc.