NILS Publishing And Compliance Research Services, LLC Offer New Online Filing Product For Property And Casualty

(CHATSWORTH, CA, August 14, 2001) – NILS Publishing (NILS), a division of CCH INCORPORATED (CCH) and the foremost provider of U.S. insurance law and regulatory information, today announced that it is offering to customers another premier workflow solution for the property and casualty industry. Authored by the compliance professionals of Compliance Research Services (CRS), Product Filing Guide for Property and Casualty was co-developed by NILS and CRS and is a highly sophisticated analytical tool designed to ensure compliant and timely product filings for personal and/or commercial lines.

Form filings and rate and rule changes can be a daunting task without the up-to-date and insightful information found in this CRS product. The concise grid format makes for easy-to-locate information that can be customized by the user to make monitoring and searching even more targeted. A key member of the CRS development team, product manager Nancy French, focused on organizing the content of the product around the workflow of the property and casualty filer.

"After using the Product Filing Guide for Property and Casualty to conduct form filings and rate and rule changes, I can’t imagine a property and casualty filing staff that would want to do it any other way. The product is extremely organized and is custom built for the special nuances of property and casualty filings."

NILS's INSource serves as the knowledge base for all CRS products – the new CRS Product Filing Guide for Property and Casualty as well as CRS’s state-of-the-art life and health products. This highly convenient, online database of information allows for subscribers of both CRS products and INSource to easily link between multiple publications for more in-depth, full-text research.

New Services Offer Fast Access, Comprehensive Coverage

The Product Filing Guide for Property and Casualty covers every aspect of administrative filing requirements for both personal and commercial insurance, organized by state and type of coverage. The product is supplemented with convenient electronic versions of mandatory state forms that accompany rate and form filings. Research can easily be conducted by state and type of coverage and can even be customized to deliver more specific information desired by the user.

Through the combined services of NILS INSource and CRS Compliance Updates and Product Filing Guide, insurers can gain access 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to current and past state statutes, regulations and compliance and product filing information. While enhanced by a subscription to INSource, CRS Compliance Updates and Product Filing Guide can also be purchased independent of INSource.

To obtain additional information or to view a demonstration of the NILS/CRS online products, visit the NILS Publishing web site at www.nils.com.

About Compliance Research Services

Compliance Research Services, LLC, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, was founded by experienced insurance professionals Rhonda Steger, CEO, and David Simon, President. A compliance consulting firm offering a full range of products and services to the insurance industry, CRS focuses its strategic mission on helping companies compete in today’s insurance marketplace.

In addition to authoring and producing acclaimed industry products, Compliance Updates and Product Filing Guide, CRS also provides comprehensive consulting and research services in topical areas such as insurance product requirements, filing for assumptions, name changes, redomestications, licensing and life & health product filing.

The CRS staff is comprised of a diverse mix of insurance professionals, managers, analysts and attorneys, with over 130 years of combined insurance experience in compliance, insurance law, legislative analysis, product development, contract drafting, claims, underwriting and licensing. Visit the CRS website at www.complianceresearchservices.com.

About NILS Publishing

NILS Publishing was founded in 1947 – as the National Insurance Law Service® – to deliver the state laws and regulations that insurance organizations need to ensure compliance and to compete in the ever-changing insurance marketplace. INSource® Insurance was introduced in 1991, delivering on CD-ROM the information published in the National Insurance Law Service.

Today, INSource Insurance on the Web delivers the most comprehensive library of state and federal compliance information with the speed and convenience of the Internet. For more information about NILS Publishing Company, visit www.nils.com. NILS Publishing is a member of the Business and Finance Group of CCH INCORPORATED. CCH is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wolters Kluwer North America. The CCH web site can be accessed at www.cch.com. The Business and Finance group web site can be accessed at www.business.cch.com.

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