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      <description><![CDATA[<p align="left"> <span class="mw_region">CINCINNATI, OH</span><span>--(Marketwired - July 12, 2016) - </span>The list of <a href="http://www.wardinc.com/wards50/" rel="nofollow" title="Ward's 50®">Ward's 50®</a> top performing insurance companies was released by <a href="http://www.wardinc.com/" rel="nofollow" title="Ward Group">Ward Group</a>, an Aon Hewitt company and the leading provider of operational and compensation benchmarking and best practices services for insurance companies. Aon Hewitt is the global talent, retirement and health solutions business of <a href="http://www.aon.com/default.jsp" rel="nofollow" title="Aon plc">Aon plc</a> (<exchange name="NYSE">NYSE</exchange>: <ticker name="AON">AON</ticker>).</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2016 19:30 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:identifier>971745</dc:identifier>
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      <title>2015 Ward's 50 Top Performing Insurance Companies Named by Ward Group </title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>CINCINNATI, OH--(Marketwired - Jul 14, 2015) -  The list of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wardinc.com/wards50/" title="Ward's 50&#174;">Ward's 50&#174;</a> top performing insurance companies was released by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wardinc.com/" title="Ward Group">Ward Group</a>, an Aon Hewitt company and the leading provider of operational and compensation benchmarking and best practices services for insurance companies. Aon Hewitt is the global talent, retirement and health solutions business of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.aon.com/default.jsp" title="Aon plc">Aon plc</a> (<exchange name="NYSE">NYSE</exchange>: <ticker name="AON">AON</ticker>).</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2015 19:30 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:identifier>971748</dc:identifier>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>CINCINNATI, OH--(Marketwired - Mar 2, 2015) -  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wardinc.com/" title="Ward Group">Ward Group</a>, an <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.aon.com/human-capital-consulting/default.jsp" title="Aon Hewitt">Aon Hewitt</a> company, today launched a survey of property claims practices as they relate to the use of third-party partners in the adjustment process.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2015 16:30 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:identifier>971743</dc:identifier>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>CINCINNATI, OH--(Marketwired - Oct 21, 2014) -  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wardinc.com/" title="Ward Group">Ward Group</a>, an <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.aon.com/human-capital-consulting/default.jsp" title="Aon Hewitt">Aon Hewitt</a> company and the leading provider of benchmarking and best practices research studies for the insurance industry, today released findings from its&#160;study of cost allocation practices at life and annuity insurers.&#160;The results show that companies tend to prefer using simplified approaches for the basis of allocating costs throughout the organization rather than complex, multi-driver formulas.&#160;To illustrate, agent commission is commonly reported as a cost allocation driver within the sales, marketing and distribution management areas.&#160;Subsequent correlation of company responses with financial performance revealed the top third of companies by return on equity utilized activity-based costing.&#160;Conversely, the bottom third of companies by performance did not.&#160;Similar high versus low comparisons were made with other surveyed financial practices.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2014 15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>CINCINNATI, OH--(Marketwired - Aug 7, 2014) - <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wardinc.com/" title="Ward Group">Ward Group</a>, an <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.aon.com/human-capital-consulting/" title="Aon Hewitt">Aon Hewitt</a> company and the leading provider of benchmarking and best practices research studies for the insurance industry, today released findings from its study of premium audit practices at property-casualty commercial lines carriers.&#160;The study examined the structure and performance of premium audit operations amidst the growth of direct premiums written in U.S. commercial lines.&#160;A diverse group of 38 companies participated in the research and results showed a noticeable increase in executive level focus on premium audit practices over the past three years.&#160;</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2014 12:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:30 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:identifier>971736</dc:identifier>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 19:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:publisher>GlobeNewswire Inc.</dc:publisher>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:keyword>Agency</dc:keyword>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:publisher>GlobeNewswire Inc.</dc:publisher>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>CINCINNATI, OH--(Marketwire - Feb 21, 2012) - Results are now available for the 2011 Workers' Compensation Subrogation Study conducted by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wardinc.com/" title="Ward Group">Ward Group</a> on behalf of the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.subrogation.org/" title="National Association of Subrogation Professionals (NASP)">National Association of Subrogation Professionals (NASP)</a>. Findings of the study show workers' compensation subrogation efficiency has markedly increased over the past few years. The number of days from when a workers' compensation claim is identified as having subrogation potential to when that subrogation file is closed has decreased 14% from 418 days in 2008 to 368 days in 2010.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>CINCINNATI, OH--(Marketwire - Sep 22, 2011) -  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wardinc.com/" title="Ward Group">Ward Group</a>&#174; is conducting a survey on agency compensation practices for property-casualty insurance companies. The information gathered from the survey will provide meaningful insights on agency compensation, commission structures, incentives, travel and other agency management practices. The survey will be conducted through December 1, 2011 and results will be distributed in January 2012. </p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:30 GMT</pubDate>
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