Risk & Insurance Magazine

A.M. Best Company is a worldwide insurance-rating and information agency that issues reports and ratings about insurance organizations. Its flagship publication and database, Best's Insurance Reports, offers coverage of insurers and re-insurers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom. The company is an issuer of fixed-instrument debt ratings that cover bonds, notes and securitization issued by insurers and re-insurers. Best company is also a publisher of books, directories, CD-ROM products and Internet-based services pertaining to the insurance industry. Products focus on insurance company financial and underwriting information, providers of legal representation, claims adjusting services to the insurance industry and company-specific analytical information in numerous markets. The company was founded in 1899.

Founded in 1899, Hooper Holmes Inc. is a provider of risk assessment services for the insurance industry. Based in Allentown, Pa., the company provides health risk assessment services, including medical exam, data collection, laboratory testing and underwriting s, to the insurance industry. It offers services through 250 local markets in the United States and a network of over 9000 examiners. Under the trade name Portamedic, Hooper Holmes Inc. provides nationwide examination services to the life and health insurance industry. The company's health and wellness division provides complete service for wellness, disease management and managed care companies, including scheduling support, fulfillment of supplies, blood collection kits, medical screenings and data transmission.