Business Insurance readers pick industry's best overall

Business Insurance's annual Readers Choice Awards recognize our readers' picks for the best overall commercial insurance industry companies.

2008 marks the fourth year of this program. BI launched the Readers Choice Awards in 2005 to let readers vote for the companies that they believe offer the best combination of service, value, quality and innovation.

The categories are:

• Best admitted commercial property insurer.
• Best admitted liability insurer, encompassing both professional liability and general liability.
• Best employee assistance program provider.
• Best employee benefit consulting firm.
• Best insurance wholesaler/managing general agent/program administrator.
• Best managed care organization.
• Best reinsurance market organization.
• Best reinsurance intermediary.
• Best retail agent/broker.
  For 2008, BI created subcategories by revenue: greater than $250 million, $50 million to $250 million, $25 million to $50 million, and less than $25 million.
• Best risk management consulting firm.
• Best surplus lines insurer.
• Best third-party claims administrator, encompassing both property/casualty and benefit claims.
• Best workers compensation insurer.

Again this year, Business Insurance partnered with Erdos & Morgan Inc., an internationally respected business-to-business market research firm, to devise an electronic ballot and tabulate the results. BI invited readers of the news magazine as well as BusinessInsurance.com to cast their votes on confidential ballots. Balloting closed June 23, and the results were tabulated and analyzed to determine the winners as well as the top four runners-up.

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