Jewelers Mutual Insurance Company, Neenah, Wis., has been named to the Ward’s 50, a benchmark group of the nation’s 50 top-performing insurance companies. The Ward Group, based in Cincinnati, is a management consulting firm that specializes in the insurance industry.

Each year, the Ward Group recognizes 50 insurance companies that have excelled at balancing safety, consistency, and performance over a five-year period, and then benchmarks their performance against others in the industry. Approximately 3,000 property-casualty companies were analyzed in 2005. Jewelers Mutual was selected to the final 50 for achieving outstanding financial results.