Home About Services Ward's 50 Research News Events Alliances

Already a WRC subscriber? Login
Become a WRC subscriber
Sign up for email alerts for new studies
Ward Research Center

For the Property-Casualty Industry

What is the Ward Research Center?

The Ward Research Center is a reservoir of valuable information and analysis specific to property-casualty insurers accumulated from Ward Group's strategic studies and research. We offer a full subscription service or select items can be ordered on a pay-as-you-go basis.

P&C Insurers can confidentially participate in all studies and receive customized results, attend webinars, download white papers addressing current issues, access historic strategic studies and more. The online format is easy to use and allows access across your company.

  • Participate in studies on business practices and receive customized results comparing your company to the benchmarks

  • Access results for all historical strategic studies

  • Compare your company's financial performance to the industry and Ward's 50 benchmarks

  • and more

Benefits of Your Subscription

Ward Research Center subscribers receive:

  • Online access to strategic studies, white papers, and web events. Ward Group conducts studies relating to operational practices and strategic initiatives for insurance companies (typically 6 – 8 annually). Subscribers can participate in these studies, receive customized results and attend related webinars.

Snapshot of Strategic Study Topics

Agent Compensation and Management Practices

Homeowners Business Climate

Contact Center Operations

Loss Control and Risk Management

Claims Litigation

IT Investment and Outsourcing

Cost Allocation

Underwriting and Policy Management

Customer Retention

Premium Audit

Employee Benefits and Compensation

Subrogation

Industry Labor Market Study

Regulatory and Corporate Compliance

  • Ward's 50 Comparison Reports to quickly compare your company and competitors to top performers.
  • Participation credit. The Ward Research Center subscription service pays for participation. Members receive a credit toward the subscription renewal fee based on participation in strategic studies. Participants in strategic studies also earn the privilege of first-look status for viewing results.
  • Online access to Ward Group presentations. Throughout the year members of the Ward Group management team speak on a variety of topics at conferences. Copies of select presentations will be available exclusively to Ward Research Center subscribers.
  • Complimentary registration fees for two participants to attend select Ward Group hosted events.
  • Ward Benchmarking credit. If you upgrade your service to a Ward Benchmarking Study, your subscription fee will be applied to the benchmarking fee.
  • An annual copy of Ward's Results, property-casualty edition.




Who We Are Management Team Opportunities
Operational Benchmarking Compensation Surveys Executive Compensation Consulting Agency Tiering Service Case Studies Ward Research Center
About Ward's 50 Methodology Life-Health Ward's 50 Companies Property-Casualty Ward's 50 Companies
Ward Research Center Strategic Studies Ward's Results Ward's 50 Comparisons
News
Symposium Speaking Engagements