Benfield insurance brokerage said today it has arranged for access to A.M Best Co.'s electronic ratings file, enabling it to provide real-time reinsurer A.M. Best rating change notifications to its U.S. clients.

Terms of the agreement with A.M. Best Co. in Oldwick, N.J., were not disclosed.

Benfield said that with programming access to A.M. Best Co. rating information, it will be the first reinsurance intermediary to notify its clients about reinsurer rating changes in real time and correlate the impact to their specific reinsurance contracts.

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