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Insurance Rating Bureaus

One Platform for Every Commercial Insurance Rating Bureau

What Are Insurance Rating Bureaus?

An Insurance Product Configuration Platform allows insurance organizations to configure every component of a commercial insurance product through business driven configuration instead of software development.Rather than embedding business rules inside applications, products are assembled from configurable components that can be reused, versioned, tested, and deployed through a governed product lifecycle.This approach significantly reduces implementation time while improving flexibility and maintainability.

What Are Insurance Rating Bureaus?

Insurance Rating Bureaus develop and maintain standardized rating information used by commercial insurance companies.

Depending on the line of business and jurisdiction, bureau organizations publish:

Insurance companies typically combine bureau content with proprietary carrier pricing, underwriting guidelines, and product enhancements.

Why Bureau Management Matters

Commercial insurance products change continuously.

Every year insurance organizations receive updates involving:

Managing these updates manually across multiple systems creates operational risk. SelectRate centralizes bureau management while simplifying testing and deployment.

Supported Insurance Rating Bureaus

SelectRate supports the major commercial insurance rating organizations used throughout the United States.

Including:

Carrier specific rating methodologies can be layered on top of any supported bureau.

ISO Rating

ISO provides commercial insurance content for many commercial property and casualty products. Carrier deviations remain separate from bureau content, simplifying future updates.

Organizations manage:

Learn more about ISO Rating Software and ISO Commercial General Liability Rating.

NCCI Workers Compensation Rating

NCCI publishes Workers Compensation content for the majority of participating states.

Organizations manage:

Learn more about NCCI Rating Software and Workers Compensation Rating Software.

State Workers Compensation Rating Bureaus

SelectRate supports individual state rating organizations that publish their own Workers Compensation content.

Supported bureaus include:

Each bureau maintains unique classifications, rating methodologies, and regulatory requirements that can be managed independently within SelectRate.

Bureau Content Management

Every bureau follows the same structured product lifecycle. Business users maintain bureau content without modifying software code.

Manage:

Learn more about Insurance Product Configuration Platform.

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Carrier Specific Pricing

Most insurance organizations extend bureau products with proprietary pricing. Carrier logic remains independent from bureau content.

Configure:

Learn more about Carrier Rate Multipliers and Carrier Rating Overrides.

Effective Date Management

Bureau updates frequently become effective on future dates. Organizations can prepare future bureau updates months before production deployment.

SelectRate manages:

Learn more about Effective Date Management.

Automated Testing

Every bureau update should be validated before deployment. Automated testing significantly reduces production risk.

Test:

Learn more about Rating Testing Software.

Release Management

Deploy bureau updates through governed release workflows.Every bureau update follows a structured deployment process.

Supports:

Learn more about Rating Release Management.

API Integration

Expose bureau rating through secure REST APIs.One centralized rating engine supports every connected application.

Integrate with:

Learn more about Insurance Rating API.

Enterprise Governance

Every bureau update is fully documented. Organizations maintain complete visibility into every bureau update.

Track:

Benefits of Centralized Bureau Management

Insurance organizations modernize bureau management to improve operational efficiency and reduce maintenance.

Benefits include:

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Modernize Bureau Rating Across Every Commercial Insurance Product

Whether you manage ISO products, Workers Compensation bureaus, proprietary carrier products, or multiple commercial insurance programs, SelectRate provides one centralized platform to configure, govern, test, and deploy bureau content with confidence.

Frequently Asked Questions

Insurance Rating Bureaus develop standardized rating information including classification codes, loss costs, advisory rates, experience rating methodologies, and rating rules used by commercial insurance companies.

SelectRate supports ISO, NCCI, WCIRB, PCRB, DCRB, NJCRIB, WCRIBMA, carrier-specific products, and proprietary commercial insurance rating models.

Yes. Carrier multipliers, underwriting rules, eligibility requirements, coverage enhancements, and proprietary pricing can all be configured independently from bureau content.

Yes. Automated testing validates classifications, loss costs, advisory rates, formulas, premium calculations, and underwriting rules before production deployment.

Yes. Bureau rating can be exposed through secure REST APIs for integration with policy administration systems, agency management systems, broker portals, customer portals, and other third-party applications.