MarketStance Annual Update Adds New Insurance Market Statistics on Agriculture and Real Estate

MarketStance, developer of insurance statistics and unique analytical tools for the insurance industry, has announced the release of its 2005 update, which includes agriculture classifications and farmowners multi-peril data, as well as improved break outs on real estate markets. Also included in the update is 2004 data on business demographics, insurable exposures and premiums

Middletown, CT (PRWEB) December 16, 2005 -- MarketStance, the developer of comprehensive insurance statistics and unique analytical tools for the insurance industry, has announced the release of its 2005 update, which includes agriculture classifications and farmowners multi-peril data, as well as improved break outs on real estate markets. Also included in the update is 2004 data on business demographics, insurable exposures and premiums.

The 2005 update is the ninth for the insurance statistics database originated by MarketStance and custom designed to meet the information needs of the commercial property and casualty insurance industry. The database is the foundation of the MarketStance Analyst desktop research tool, as well as the company’s ExpressReports service that provides subscribers on-demand, easy access to the most frequently sought insurance market information.

With this year’s update, the MarketStance database includes up-to-date premium, exposures, selected loss ratio estimates, and business demographic information by line of coverage for some 1,800 business classifications. MarketStance data is retrievable down to the county, or ZIP code, level. Historical growth rates, and forecast growth through 2008 also are included.

Farmowners multi-peril premium estimates, along with numbers of accounts and insurable exposures, is newly included on nearly two dozen classes of agricultural producers of crops or livestock. MarketStance has also added new codes to break out real estate exposures and premiums previously buried in non-real state classifications, such as those related to insurance, banking and non-profits.

For more information about insurance market information from MarketStance go to www.marketstance.com or call 888-777-2587.

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MarketStance (www.marketstance.com) integrates economic and business demographics with insurance data to provide up-to-date market information and insights for the insurance industry. The company additionally provides highly skilled analytical consulting services that are built upon an in-depth understanding and experience in insurance.

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