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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, Inc. Announces TEAM-UP Agency Download Solutions Expansion Contract with Hallmark Insurance Company

Houston, TX, (MarketWire) March 30, 2010, Connective Technologies announces the contract signing of TEAM-UP(tm) Download with Hallmark Insurance Company, a large personal lines carrier in Texas, for download servicing of their insurance distribution channel. With their wide array of flexible auto and property insurance products and multi-state expansion initiatives, Hallmark Insurance will be offering TEAM-UP download for homeowners and dwelling fire lines of businesses, in addition to auto, for their independent agents. TEAM-UP provides once-and-done download processing in an industry compliant, data-secure environment.

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. This additional investment in automation demonstrates our priority commitment toward this cause.”

Dic Marxen, President and CEO of Connective Technologies, adds, “Hallmark Insurance has been a long-standing client of TEAM-UP download and we’re excited about both their growing clientele and their respective expansion of TEAM-UP download. In today’s competitive business environment it is always refreshing to have clientele that allows us to grow as they grow!”

TEAM-UP Download is an Internet-secure offering being leveraged by more than 70 carrier clients and vendor alliances in providing accessibility to over 30,000 communicating agency pairs using more than 40 different agency management systems throughout every region in the United States. Now in its third major release, the product has matured to ensure agencies have a seamless migration from other download processes. The improved self-reliant features such as single-policy, real-time archival retrievals by the agents, improved group management distribution and tracking features that ease and accelerate the registration process for both agencies and carriers, have been implemented with TEAM-UP’s Service Oriented Architecture. This environment ensures a seamless fit into carriers’ existing agency portals and incorporates a single-process entry point at the agency for accessing multiple carriers downloads.

About Hallmark Insurance Company:
Hallmark Insurance Company, American Hallmark Insurance Company of Texas and Hallmark County Mutual Insurance Company are the underwriting carriers utilized by the personal lines operating unit of Hallmark Financial Services, Inc., an insurance holding company (NASDAQ: HALL). Our focus is to provide private passenger auto, multi-line property, light commercial, and motorcycle insurance through more than 3,500 agents nationwide. Hallmark agents and insured enjoy the security of knowing they are working with a company that carries an A- “Excellent” financial stability rating from A.M. Best. Please visit our website: www.hallmarkinsco.com

About Connective Technologies, Inc.
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 has used its many years of experience with leading agency management systems and traditional batch EDI to pioneer the approach, which has helped it 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 Translation Solutions, as well as Site Development and Web Services. To learn more about Connective products and services, contact Dic Marxen at (817) 377-0815, by email at: dmarxen@connectivetech.com, or visit our website at www.connectivetech.com.