On July 16, 2019, the Ward Group named North Star Mutual to their list of 2019 Ward’s 50® Top Performing Property-Casualty Insurance Companies for the fifteenth consecutive year. The Ward Group is the leading provider of operational and compensation benchmarking and best practices services for insurance companies. The Ward Group analyzes the financial performance of nearly 3,000 property-casualty insurance companies across the nation and identifies the top performers in each segment based on objective data and subjective quality measures. Each company on the 2019 list has passed all safety and consistency screens and achieved superior financial performance over a five-year period (2014-2018).

For more information about the Ward Group and the Ward’s 50®, please visit the organization’s Website at www.wardinc.com.