Who's industry's best? BI invites its readers to cast their votes

Business Insurance is pleased to invite its readers to vote for the best overall commercial insurance industry companies in our 2007 Readers Choice Awards.

Now in their third year, BI's Readers Choice Awards recognize the top-performing companies in 11 different categories relating to risk management, insurance and employee benefits. Readers of the newsmagazine along with visitors to BusinessInsurance.com are invited to vote for companies that they believe offer the best combination of service, value, quality and innovation.

The categories are:

c Best admitted property/casualty insurer

c Best employee assistance program provider

c Best employee benefit consulting firm

c Best insurance wholesaler

c Best managed care organization

c Best property/casualty reinsurer

c Best reinsurance intermediary

c Best retail brokerage

c Best risk management consulting firm

c Best surplus lines insurer

c Best third-party claims administrator

Winners in these categories will be announced and profiled in the Aug. 20 issue of Business Insurance, and online after publication.

To view profiles of the winning companies in the previous Readers Choice Awards competitions, please visit www.BusinessInsurance.com/ReadersChoice.

As in the past, all votes are completely confidential, and BI's ballot provides lists of the largest companies in each category for convenience only; voters may write in other companies if they choose.

New for the 2007 awards is a revised electronic ballot, with results to be tabulated by Erdos & Morgan Inc., an internationally respected business-to-business market research firm.

To participate in this year's Readers Choice Awards, go to http://ErdosSurvey.com/B/BI/ReadersChoiceBallot.

All votes must be submitted by June 13.