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April 2005
• When Hail Damages Your Vehicle: Six Simple Steps To Getting Back On The Road. Last night’s hail storm in central and south Tulsa caused widespread damage to cars and rooftops. If you’ve got damage to your car, paintless dent removal might be the answer to restoring your vehicle to its pre-accident condition.
• Research Finds Higher Horsepower Cars Involved In Fewer Accidents. Think faster cars are involved in more crashes? You’re not alone. According to a recent phone survey of 1,000 people, one-third say that those who drive higher horsepower vehicles are involved in more frequent crashes.
• 2005 Retirement Confidence Survey. What does it take to get workers to save more in their retirement plan? Based on the 401(k) experience, the message from workers is clear: Show me the money -- the matching money -- according to the 2005 Retirement Confidence Survey (RCS) released today.
• Allstate Speeds/Simplifies Claims for Thousands of Customers. Allstate Insurance Company today took the wraps off a new plan it says will shorten and simplify the claim process for more than a quarter million customers annually.
• Allstate Unveils New Law Firm Strategy. Allstate Insurance Company has instituted major changes in the way its Law & Regulation department selects and works with outside law firms.
• Allstate to Discuss First Quarter 2005 Earnings with Investors.
The Investor Relations department of The Allstate Corporationwill conduct a conference call on Thursday, April 21, 2005 at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) to discuss first quarter 2005 earnings.
• Progressive Direct Takes Military Families Out To The Ball Game. This baseball season, the Progressive Direct Group of Insurance Companies, along with the Lexington Legends, will make military families’ lives a little bit easier by ‘taking them out to the old ball game’ for a special event on April 9th, and to each of the 67 remaining home games this season.
• USAA launches innovative new mutual fund. USAA has launched a new mutual fund, the USAA Total Return Strategy FundSM. The fund is innovative because it allocates virtually 100 percent of its assets in either stocks, bonds, or cash equivalents at any one time.
• Whitehill Technologies identified as insurance deal trends leader by prominent analyst firm. Whitehill Technologies, Inc. is
acknowledged as being a leader among insurance technology infrastructure vendors in a deal trends report published late last week by analyst firm, Celent Communications.
• USAA contributes $215,000 toward child safety. In honor of National Child Passenger Safety Week, The USAA Foundation, A Charitable Trust, contributed $215,000 to hospitals in seven cities to assist in providing child safety seats to low-income families.
• Country’s Third Largest Auto Insurance Group Gives Its People a Chance To See If They’re The Next Picasso. You’re an artist seeking to express your creativity. And you’re working to make auto insurance easier to shop for, buy and own. Sound like incompatible goals?
• One Person’s Slightly Used Auto Insurance Policy Is Another Person’s…Treasure? Who can forget the way the policy for that ’76 Gremlin smelled? How about those deductibles from that Merkur policy? Sure, they don’t make the car any longer, but that’s what makes the policy valuable! And a 1957 Ford Fairlane policy still in the envelope? What a find! If you are among the tens of millions who have never thought of auto insurance policies as collectibles, prepare yourself. On this April Fools’ Day, they just may be.
• 92 Million Unique Visitors Later, Progressive.com Celebrates 10-Years Anniversary. Ten years ago, auto-insurance.com, then the URL of The Progressive Group of Insurance Companies, launched as the first Web site of any major insurer in the world. More than 92 million unique visitors later, the site, which adopted a more intuitive URL—progressive.com—in 1997, has evolved from brochure-ware to one of the most frequently visited auto insurance Web sites and an integral part of the nearly $4 billion business The Progressive Direct Group of Insurance Companies has become.
• PacificNet Epro Selected by China's Second Largest Life Insurance Company - Ping An Insurance. Company to Provide CRM Consulting and Call Center Training Services to Ping An Insurance's 95511 Customer Service Center
• USAA announces 350 additional jobs in Phoenix. USAA is adding 350 additional positions to its Phoenix workforce in 2005. This brings total planned hiring this year in Phoenix to more than 650 new jobs.
• Automated Benefits Corp. enters into contract with J&D Benefits Inc. Automated Benefits Corp. (TSX Venture: AUT) is
pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, Automated Benefits Inc. ("Autoben") has entered into an arrangement with J&D Benefits Inc. of Markham, Ontario, whereby they intend to offer medical and dental administration and adjudication to their group insurance clients using the ABI software operated by Autoben as of May, 2005.
• DiversityInc Names Allstate a Top 10 Company for Diversity. DiversityInc named Allstate Insurance Company a Top 10 company for overall diversity in its fourth annual listing of the Top 50 Companies for Diversity. Allstate was also included in three specialty lists.
• Neighbors Give Life™ Campaign Challenges Neighbors Across the Country to Give the Gift of Life Through Blood Donations. Grammy-winning music sensation Tim McGraw, State Farm and the American Red Cross are challenging neighbors across the country to give blood by making an appointment to donate or by visiting their local blood drive.
• ESSENCE Magazine Honors Allstate for the Third Consecutive Year as a Great Place to Work for African-American Women Allstate Insurance Company was named for the third year in a row to the “Great Places to Work” list for African-American women published by ESSENCE magazine.
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