Patent ID: 8666788

Claim:
A method comprising: (a) receiving, at one or more computers from a first broker device, a first criteria to identify one or more insurance carriers capable of providing insurance to a party seeking insurance coverage; (b) determining, at the one or more computers, one or more search parameters based at least in part on the first criteria; (c) accessing, using the one or more computers, one or more electronic databases stored on one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media and operatively connected to the one or more computers, the databases comprising information provided by at least a plurality of brokers for a plurality of insurance carriers, including for one or more of the respective carriers: (i) profile information identifying the respective carriers; (ii) product information identifying one or more insurance products offered or underwritten currently or historically by the respective carriers; (iii) coverage information indicating coverage limits, layer, deductible, geography, and industry associated with the respective carriers; (iv) experience information indicating the current or historical experience of the respective carriers by industry, geography, insured size, and total underwritten premiums; (v) relationship information indicating current or historical relationships with at least one of: 1) one or more entities related to the party seeking insurance; or 2) one or more intermediaries associated with the party seeking insurance; (d) determining, by the one or more computers accessing data in the databases, one or more carriers matching the determined search parameters; (e) providing, to the first broker device by the one or more computers, first information identifying at least the determined carrier matches and second information corresponding to a market share for a product line associated with the first criteria with respect to all carriers in the database offering such product line.