Uniform Information Services Announces AUTHENTICWEB For State Filing The Workers’ Compensation Edition

(ACTON, MASS., March 20, 2002) – Uniform Information Services, the nation’s leading provider of information solutions for compliance professionals in the property and casualty insurance industry, announced today that it has released AuthenticWeb™ for State Filing – the Workers’ Compensation edition. Uniform Information Services is a division of CCH INCORPORATED (CCH).

AuthenticWeb is a combination of Uniform’s traditional product offerings in Workers’ Compensation forms and forms manuals. The new web-based product allows users to complete forms on-line and access related regulatory information from one source on their desktop. Uniform was the first to release a web-based resource for state filers with its AuthenticWeb for State Filing Property and Casualty edition, and is proud to be the first to release a similar product for Workers’ Compensation.

"With the tremendously positive feedback we have received from our Property & Casualty State Filing users, we are excited to offer this latest tool to Workers’ Compensation state filers," said Roger Gallo, UIS, Inc. president and chief executive officer.

Uniform, a division of CCH INCORPORATED, is the nation’s number-one provider of compliance related services for the property and casualty insurance industry. The company was founded in Chicago in 1917 as a non-profit to provide standardized uniform-language insurance forms. Today, the company is part of CCH INCORPORATED Business and Finance Group, and is a leader in the advancement of property and casualty compliance and insurance forms automation. To learn more about Uniform, visit the company’s web site at www.UniformInformationServices.com or call 800-503-1896.

CCH INCORPORATED, founded in 1913, has served four generations of business professionals and their clients. The company produces approximately 700 print and electronic products for securities, tax, legal, banking, securities, human resources, health care and small business markets. CCH is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wolters Kluwer North America. The CCH web site can be accessed at cch.com. The CCH business and finance group web site can be accessed at business.cch.com.

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