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Old Missouri Selects TEAM-UP Download

Keith Rollings, Company Manager of Old Missouri Mutual, states,
"We researched the marketplace, reviewed our peer competitors, surveyed our agencies
and determined that TEAM-UP is the leading market provider for real time agency downloads.

Hallmark expands TEAM-UP Download

Brookland Davis, President of Hallmark Insurance Company, states,
“We’re excited to expand our TEAM-UP download
offering to include our homeowners and dwelling fire lines of businesses. With our
recent state expansion initiatives and new product introductions, we continue to focus
on ease of doing business with our agencies.

Fairmont Farmers Mutual selects TEAM-UP

Paul Stueven, Company Manager of Fairmont Farmers, states,
“We’re excited to launch TEAM-UP Download for easing the workload
of our agencies. It’s great to beginthis 2010 year with a prominent
program offering like TEAM-UP which demonstrates our commitment toward
ease of doing business with our agents.”

Central Mutual selects TEAM-UP

Connie Costigan, President of Central Mutual, states, “With direct input from our independent
agents, we have selected TEAM-UP for cost effective, quality servicing of agency downloads.

Farmers of Flemington selects TEAM-UP

John Danka, Vice President of Underwriting for Farmers Insurance Company
of Flemington, stated, “TEAM-UP aligns well with our desires for a real-time
service to agents for effective, timely downloads of their premium content.”

Reamstown selects TEAM-UP

Matthew Schnader, CEO of Reamstown comments, “Our goal is
to provide ease of doing business with Reamstown by leveraging
the flagship agency interface solution, TEAM-UP Download.”

Rockford selects TEAM-UP

Gary Kasakaitas, Information Technology Manager for RMIC stated,
“Our selection of TEAM-UP broadens our expansion of agency download to all
of our agencies. Our goal is to provide these agents with state-of-the-art,
real-time processing efficiencies at a low cost, further promoting
our ease of doing business with them.”

Tim Parkman selects TEAM-UP

Tim Parkman, President of TPI comments, “Coupled with our unique sales and marketing
strategies and our diversified product portfolio, TEAM-UP furthers our mission of providing ease
of doing business with our agents.”

Texas Security selects TEAM-UP

Tom Contreras, President and CEO of TSGA stated, “Our mission and
goal is to provide our agents with state-of-the-art, seamless technological
efficiencies which allows them to concentrate on
profitable revenue generation.”

Star Casualty selects TEAM-UP

Don Moser, Vice President Marketing and Product Management of Star Casualty comments,
“Our goal is to provide optimal operating environments for our agent partners and ease of doing
business by leveraging flagship agency interface solutions like TEAM-UP Download.”

American Independent selects TEAM-UP

Jonathan C. Edwards, CIO of AICI stated, “We’re excited to have
selected the most secure agency interface solution in the industry.”

LEMIC / CCMSI select TEAM-UP

Dan Lastrapes, VP Operations and Management of LEMIC comments, “This
is a tremendous value-add technology and service for our agencies in making it
easier to do business with LEMIC…we are excited that this solution makes
straight-thru processing a reality!”

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Connective Technologies And Mutual Benefit Group Announce TEAM-UP Upload Expansion

Houston, TX, (Business Wire) September 13, 2005, Connective Technologies, Inc. and Mutual Benefit Group announce the expansion of their TEAM-UP Upload implementation to include PRIORITY® Data Systems' PriorityRate®.com product as a source system.

"TEAM-UP acts as our point of entry for all of the agency-side bridges that interface with our website. With the flexibility built into TEAM-UP Upload, the ease of handling the necessary workflow modifications and data translations to accept PriorityRate.com files demonstrates the flexibility that the Connective web-enabled interface solutions provide. Our back-end systems did not require any changes; everything was handled by Connective. This makes it very easy for us to expand and enhance our agency relationships by offering new interfaces," said Rick Laabs, Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Mutual Benefit.

"It's becoming common for carriers to grow their agency and retention business by making it easier to do business through cost effective, web-based agency interface solutions. Our products are designed with this need in mind," stated Deborah Osborn, Account Executive for Connective Technologies. "We are constantly polling our clients and prospects on functional enhancement priorities to ensure we're spending our annual R&D investments wisely and in areas that allows them to serve their trading partners and policyholders more effectively and efficiently while at the same time future-proofing their technology investments."

"PRIORITY Data Systems has developed a user-friendly online point-of-sale system with the added convenience of quote submission into Connective's system for upload to Mutual Benefit for policy issuance", commented David Mellor, PRIORITY'S Vice President. " PRIORITY and Mutual Benefit customers will benefit by saving time and eliminating the need to re-enter data, thus improving their workflow."

TEAM-UP Upload is a real-time solution that provides a layer of isolation for the carrier that interfaces with agency-side bridges (much like a data access layer) to provide one common interface with all agency bridges. It fully supports all ACORD standards while accounting for inconsistencies within the source AL3 or XML data files. Connective provides an experienced process that assists carriers in implementing bridges.

Because of the quality and completeness of data coming from comparative raters, such as PriorityRate.com, they are becoming more common as an agency-side bridge. TEAM-UP Upload's ability to aggregate all agency data sources is therefore becoming more significant. The capabilities built into the product for handling input from virtually any source makes the addition of comparative rating data an easy addition to a carrier's upload process.

Mutual Benefit Group, with home offices in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, provides property and casualty insurance through independent insurance agents in Pennsylvania and Maryland. Additional information about Mutual Benefit Group can be found at: http://www.mutualbenefitgroup.com.

Connective Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of e-Commerce business solutions for the property and casualty insurance industry specializing in Internet interface solutions for carriers and their agents. Connective used its many years of experience with all of the leading agency management systems and traditional batch EDI, to pioneer the approach and become the leading provider of bridging and Internet based interface solutions in the industry. Connective provides implementation services for its flagship products, TEAM-UP Upload, Download, and Data Translation Services. To learn more about Connective products and services, contact Deborah Osborn @ 713.690.6789 ext. 136 or dosborn@connectivetech.com or visit our website at www.connectivetech.com.

PRIORITY Data Systems has been providing comparative and proprietary rating solutions for auto, home, dwelling, BOP, farm, and commercial lines since 1984 to agency and company customers in 48 states. PRIORITY'S strong belief in service to the customer through accuracy and quality are evident in the development and support of its products, which are designed to improve the productivity and profitability of their customers. PRIORITY Data Systems was acquired by ChoicePoint Services Inc. in December 2004. For more information on PriorityRate.com Internet Rating, please call 800.228.9410 or visit their website at www.priority-data.com.