Business/Technology Editors
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 25, 2002
Partnership To Also Provide Ebix.com Customers With Greater
Variety of Plans for Life, Dental and Vision Insurance
ebix.com Inc. (NASDAQ: EBIX), the world's most comprehensive insurance portal, today announced QuickQuote, an ING company, has joined the rapidly expanding list of insurance providers on ebix.mall. QuickQuote will provide consumers with quotes for individual and family health insurance, as well as short-term health, from a number of leading carriers, including Blue Cross, Golden Rule and Unicare. Policy quotes will also be available from QuickQuote on life, dental and vision insurance.
QuickQuote helps fulfill a rising demand for health insurance plans from ebix.com's users. Health insurance is now one of the top three most active lines of insurance on the ebix.com web site in terms of monthly requests for quotes. QuickQuote's relationships with dozens of nationally recognized health insurers will help service ebix.com's customers with a greater variety of quotes and insurance options.
"Offering our services through ebix.com's insurance marketplace will dramatically increase the exposure for our insurance partners," said Daniel P. Wager, president of QuickQuote. "We're excited that this partnership will only further increase our industry-leading customer satisfaction rates."
"Our partnership with QuickQuote is evidence of our continued dedication to creating the Internet's single largest and most useful insurance marketplace," said Robin Raina, president and CEO of ebix.com Inc. "Linking with another brand name insurance marketplace like QuickQuote greatly expands the number of carriers consumers can tap into for policy quotes with just a few clicks of their mouse."
About QuickQuote
Based in Northern Nevada, QuickQuote.com was the Internet's first interactive insurance marketplace with its debut in 1995. The Web site has been rated #1 in "Customer Confidence" by Gomez Advisors each quarter since Fall 2000. QuickQuote also was named "Forbes Favorite" for Life Insurance in the Fall 2000 "Best of the Web" edition of Forbes.com magazine, and has been rated #1 by SmartMoney.com for "Customer Service" and "Web site Resources." QuickQuote.com offers term life insurance, individual health insurance (now including dental/vision), travel health insurance, small group health insurance, short-term health insurance and Medicare supplement insurance, as well as an Auto Insurance Center. QuickQuote Financial Inc., and its parent company, QuickQuote Systems, Inc., are part of the international financial services institution, ING Group, of Dutch origin, which is active in the fields of banking, insurance and asset management in more than 65 countries.
About ebix.com
ebix.com, an HP Enabled E-Service which ebix.com Inc. launched on September 8, 1999, is the only site on the Web to meet the insurance needs of both the consumer and the insurance professional. ebix.com includes a virtual marketplace, ebix.mall, where consumers can define their policy coverages and seek competitive quotes from a number of carriers or agents/brokers in a timeframe defined by the consumer. This allows consumers to compare prices in a non-threatening environment and buy insurance online. ebix.com offers consumers access to over 1,000 agents representing nearly 2,000 different carriers, as well as 30 carriers quoting direct. ebix.com also incorporates powerful and secure business tools for agents/brokers, including the leading carriers and agents in the United States, drawing from ebix.com Inc.'s strong business relationships with six of the ten largest insurance agencies in the world and over 3,000 agencies in the United States. This workflow engine, launched in January, can save insurance professionals up to 70 percent in time, energy and costs associated with processing day-to-day transactions.
Founded in 1976, ebix.com Inc., formerly known as Delphi Information Systems, Inc. is a leading international supplier of software and e-commerce solutions to the property and casualty insurance industry. The recent name change to ebix.com Inc. aligns the identity of the company with its strategic focus of using the Internet to enhance the way insurance business is transacted, through solutions that encompass both e-commerce and web-enabled agency management systems. An independent provider, ebix.com Inc. employs insurance and technology professionals who provide products, support and consultancy to more than 3,000 customers on six continents.
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