ePolicy Forges Alliance With the Hartford

    TORRANCE, Calif.--July 12, 2001--ePolicy.com Insurance Services Inc. (www.epolicy.com) today announced it has signed an agreement with The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. to offer workers' compensation policies, business owners policies (BOP), commercial auto insurance and umbrella coverage to ePolicy's clients.
    ePolicy offers a comprehensive selection of high quality and competitively priced insurance products for small businesses and professionals over the Internet.
    Don Martin, ePolicy CEO, said, "The addition of The Hartford to our team of strategic alliances allows us to offer small businesses the opportunity to choose from a comprehensive suite of insurance products from a highly rated service-oriented insurance carrier. The small businesses include a large number of retail, service, office, manufacturing, wholesale and contracting classes."
    The Hartford's insurance services complement ePolicy's existing selection of insurance products from major insurance carriers currently available to professionals and small businesses on its Web site.
    Using proprietary technology to streamline the application and policy writing process, ePolicy aims to deliver high quality insurance programs in a matter of minutes instead of days and often at significantly reduced rates, while providing support through its customer care center.
    Jonathan Helitzer, assistant vice president of e-business ventures at The Hartford, said, "We are pleased to participate in ePolicy's Web marketplace, which allows us to use our leading-edge contact center to efficiently provide our tailored Spectrum business owners policy to Internet-savvy small business customers."

    About The Hartford

    The Hartford is one of the nation's largest insurance and financial services companies, with 2000 revenues of $14.7 billion. As of March 31, 2001, The Hartford had assets of $165.5 billion and shareholders' equity of $8.4 billion.
    The company is a leading provider of investment products, individual life insurance and group benefits; automobile and homeowners products; commercial property and casualty insurance; and reinsurance. The Hartford's Internet address is www.thehartford.com.

    About ePolicy.com Insurance Services Inc.

    ePolicy is a comprehensive online source of high quality and low-cost insurance products for small businesses and professionals. ePolicy has established key relationships with 13 top-rated insurance carriers, including ACE USA, American International Group Inc. (AIG), Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, Interstate Insurance Group, Kemper Insurance Companies, Philadelphia Insurance Companies, Republic Indemnity, St. Paul Companies, The Hartford, TIG Specialty Insurance Solutions, Zurich North America, and others.
    Currently, ePolicy provides small business owners insurance (BOP), workers' compensation insurance, commercial auto insurance, commercial umbrella insurance, and professional liability insurance for more than 300 classes of professionals. Through ePolicy, carriers can reach the highly fragmented and underserved small business insurance market. All insurance services are provided by ePolicy.com Insurance Services Inc., doing business in New York as ePolicy.com Insurance.